The Update; Reasearch draft done and CPR volunteer

This week I finished my rough draft of my research paper. It is so relieving that I have my rough draft done! All that is left is revising and my final paper. I have learned a lot more about AEDs, CPR, and more about cardiovascular diseases in my research. This information helps me gain a better understating on AED's and cardiovascular diseases that I did not know before. I also learned that there is a distinguish between Sudden cardiovascular diseases,

Last week I volunteer to teach  CPR classes at Converse college for an annual girls day event. The girls were from different schools, they were 16-14 years old. I was not the lead instructor, but I had a fun time and enjoyed teaching CPR to the girls. I observed how the CPR classes were ran. After I volunteered it gave me a good idea on how I can teach my CPR classes. It also made me more comfortable teaching CPR  classes to the children. It was a Very fun experience which will help me a lot in teaching my own CPR classes.

Here are some pictures form the CPR classes at Converse college:

The Update; CPR class take two

Yesterday I taught my second CPR class. The class that I taught was Ms. Gillespies PE class. I had 12 students in my CPR class. I had two instructors who assisted with the class.After I teach my classes I give each student a little red CPR saves lives with a little book let with the steps to CPR in it.  I am becoming more comfortable teaching the CPR classes to the students. I am also really excited that the kids, to my surprise, are very excited and interested in learning CPR. Today one of the students I taught in my first class came up to me and said to me,along the lines of " I'm glad you taught me how to do CPR because now I'll be ready if I need to save someones life!". That just made me so happy and even more excited that there are students that are real interested and excited! Another thing that made me really excited is that Ms. Gillespie wants me to teach all of her PE classes, since we are beginning a new term. She told me that she thinks that it is very helpful and that she wants all of the PE students to be able to know how to do CPR. That just makes me so happy! I hope that I can be able to teach all of them! I'm so excited!

     

         I did not post my thesis sentence in my last blog so this is it:

" Today not all public places have an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). By teaching CPR classes, telling success stories and utilizing media advocacy, an increased awareness of AED's can result in AED's can be placed in more public facilities thus helping reduce death due to sudden cardiac arrest."

My English teacher has helped my revise my thesis so this thesis I am going to change the wording of it this weekend, but this is the jest of it.

       

      On our "three day weekend" I will be helping volunteer with CPR classes being taught at Converse College. This will be on  Friday October 22 and the CPR classes will start at 9:15 AM and end at 3:00 PM. We are expecting around 200 girls or more, 6 – 14 yrs. old. I think this will also help me become more comfortable teaching. I will not be a main instructor, but I think that with me volunteering it will help me gain more experience in how I should teach my class. Volunteering will also help me to become much more comfortable talking and teaching to kids and this will be VERY helpful for my CPR classes. I can not wait! I am excited and nervous at the same time! Till next time!

CPR saves lives!

First CPR class

Today I had my very first CPR class for my senior project! It was Ms. Howard's 8th and 9th grade dance class.At first I was a little bit nervous making sure that I had everything. Before my class started I was so frantic, making sure that I had all of the papers that everyone needed to fill out and I had to make sure that my volunteers would show up and not become lost. My two volunteers came and helped me. As we were setting our equipment up the kids started coming in and I was very surprised at how eager some of them were to learn CPR. One kid said along the lines of " Yeah! Lets get ready to learn CPR and learn how to save a life!". That made me less nervous and more excited. The kids were very good and cooperative and very good for my first class. Some of the kids would keep talking when we were explaining some things, but thank goodness that Ms. Howard was there to quite them down. To keep track of who I taught I let each student sign a roster to show that they took the class. The American Heart Association has a evaluation from that you give. So I gave the evaluation paper to Ms. Howard to see comment on how I did. Today was a good first start to my CPR classes. I wasn't able to take any pictures of my CPR class today, because I forgot my camera. The next classes that I will teach I will make sure that pictures will be taken. My next class will be October 19th with Ms. Gillespie's fitness class.
CPR saves lives.

Next week, the BIG day

On my last post I posted that I'll be starting my CPR classes this week. Well that was a mistake on my part. It will actually be next week! This week I have been preparing for my first CPR class that I will teach with the kids. I have been re watching the CPR video's that I will be showing and to make sure that I have everything ready for this coming week! Kind of nervous, but excited at the same time! It will be my first class teaching kids instead of adults. I'm so excited! My first CPR class will be Thursday October 14 with Ms. Howard's dance class. This will be during seventh period. I will be teaching seventh graders! Yay I can't wait for this week to start my CPR classes!

The Update; this week

This week we went on our Senior Retreat. It was a blast and a very much needed off time. It was a bunch of fun. So far I'm just getting ready for my first CPR class which should be next week with Ms. Howard's dance class! I'm excited. The dance class is very big so I will have to ask the company that I'm with for some help because I will not be able to teach more than 6 students by myself. That is in the process. Other wise I'm so excited for my first CPR class! Yay! Oh just to add one of the Juniors came up to me today and asked what my senior project was; and they were super excited about my project and being able to learn CPR! I think my CPR classes will be a success! Until next time!