GRADUATION

M.A. - Special Education Graduation 2011 

 

SCHOOL BREAK

School's over and it's time to take a break. This year, the entire school staff spent a 4-day vacation site seeing and the best of all.... THEME PARK visit!

Enchanted Kingdom... that's where the fun happened. It was good to be a child again even only for a day.

For most of the staff, it was their first time - good thing about it? 'twas a BLAST!

Thanks to Sister Aida, the  RVM sisters, and REX Publishing Co. , my publisher, for making this year's rest and recreation the BEST one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MY FINAL CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

  

The revised conceptual framework of my study. 

DONE.

Finally, I finished my thesis today. It was a lot of work but it's worth all the effort. Am looking forward to the implementation of my study. I definitely will share the result soon enough.....

MULTIPLICITY: DENDRITES EXERCISE

Now am working on chapter 4 of my research paper. I should thank my adviser for casually telling me to use mixed research method as the challenge is staggering. Yet, I like the way it is - plenty, mix, and enriching. Counting all the instruments I used.... I say 8 instruments, 5 groups of respondents .... now THAT is making my dendrites work at max. It's so interesting  going  into the  details of analyzing, interpreting, summarizing, concluding and eventually recommending something out of the study...

My next challenge => presenting my study during final defense in one frame - no more, no less.

we'll see.....

SPEECH PLAY - MY NEW BOOK SERIES 2011

WELL DONE, MY GIRL!

The best mask in Grade 4 Class, MSEP subject,  for its uniqueness in design and color.... that's my girl's work....

MY CKC COLLEAGUES

I am in the midst of my research work for my M.A. degree in Special Education right now and it is just so amazing to have the kind of colleagues that I now have in CKC - supportive and a source of inspiration. Everyday dynamics with them bring newness to my study and make me a better person each time as well. As they learn from me, I learn MORE from them. And for the RVM sisters? their support is equally enriching.  And the students? their enthusiasm is contagious.

MY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

My visual interpretation of Triangulation for the Mixed Model Research Method I used in my thesis study - PBS Integration. It's the multiplicity practice in mixed-model that makes it different from the mono-method design.

THESIS WRITING

So I started full time work on my thesis paper and I'd say it's a LOT of work - mind and body. I had about 4 changes, which means 4 sets of Chapters1 to 3 writing.  It's on the 4th "edition" that I finally figured out what i exactly want to do.... (no wonder a lot of M.A. students are not able to make it through graduation as thesis writing is really a pain...!) - BUT.. am up for the challenge.

am no statistics person (i observed am not patient figuring out those formula, but that's why there are statisticians... division of labor!) but mixed research method caught my attention. so that's the method am using in my research as it maximizes qualitative and quantitative methods within and across stages.Now I am excited to start field work after my defense. Let's see what happens next...