1) What is your essential question and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
My essential question is: "What is the most significant factor for effectively teaching karate to children?". My answers are: for an instructor to be patient with the children, for an instructor to add a degree of fun into teaching, and for an instructor to understand the content they are teaching. My best answer is the third one listed because I believe a teacher cannot be a good teacher if they do not know what they are teaching, regardless of how good at teaching they are
2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
My answers came to me logically through teaching. It is also my personal belief the third listed answer is the best.
3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
My biggest problem was what to do for Independent Component 2. This was resolved when my instructor and Mr. Rivas separately came to the conclusion I could work with the older kids.
4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
My most significant source throughout my mentorship remained "An Open Mind" by Peter Lindsey. It perfectly details good expectations of an instructor, especially a junior instructor such as myself. I would like to say my personal experience in school and karate led me to my best answer because it feels like common sense. If that is not allowed, the book "Teaching Martial Arts" by Sang Kim outlines my answer well, as it is literally about teaching and it holds the opinion of knowing what you teach is important.
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