RC #13

What is the relationship between low self esteem and eating disorders? : Self esteem has recently been defined by silver stone as " the sense of contentment and self acceptance that stems from a person's appraisal of their own worth, significance , attractiveness, competence and ability To satisfy themselves. It is how they respect and love themselves , and be proud of their accomplishments. When kids are teens that is when they are trying to figure out who they are and how they will become who they want to be and why they want to be that person. (Wilfiams 1993) said that low self esteem has a lot to do with eating disorders. When people have low self esteem they are always constantly in bad moods and not loving life not living the way they should be. Researchers in the early 90s did a questionnaire trying to figure out if low self esteem and sting disorders had a connection and to their standards it did. The kids that has eating disorders were the ones not feeling good about rmselves and having a lot of time where they felt depressed. Without a strong positive sense of identity young girls will fall into the traits of I'm not good enough to be the person I want to be because others don't except me. When little girls grow up and don't feel excepted by others around them they think That it is because they aren't perfect that they aren't skinny enough and they aren't good enough to be around the people that they want to be around. So therefore they fall into I won't eat or eating a lot will get me fat and fat people don't have friends things like that. When girls are growing up they think they have to be something their not to fit in when the truth is every young girl is trying to fit in and their all doing the same thing but others do it better and the ones that think their doing it better tend to be harmful towards others feelings creating little monsters filled with low self esteem and not being proud of who they are becoming. They will start starving themselves and doing things to there Boyd because they don't feel like they have what it takes to be the popular person in school. Girls start dieting exercising excessively and doing so much that they start puking or things that get their weight down. Which is sad because when your young everyone is trying to fit in but those girls that's have such high confidence have the traits to go so far that they end up hurting the people that don't have such hi confidence. And it ruins lives of young girls causing them to hurt their bodies and try to fit in and make themselves feel more attractive to others around them. If they feel more attractive then they will be liked is what they think but in order to feel attractive they need to actually feel attractive without damaging their bodies. That is pretty much the problem within young girls is trying to be someone their not in order to hangout with specific kinds of crowds. Especially when going through puberty is the worst part of adolescence . Your body is changing and different things are happening to it that you feel a sense of I'm turning into a fat person and I look disgusting but the truth is their growing into beautiful young women. There's a difference in eating right to be healthy and not eating anything to be skinny. Guys go through puberty and go muscles and become stronger and more successful with their bodies, but young girls go through so many changes it scares them. Stress is a lot when it comes to growing girls. Fights with their friends, figuring out what to wear, how to dress to impress, how to be smart in class so you don't look dumb all this has a big effect on young girls it damanages their brain but it is also important to go through it because it can make you stronger and feel more confidence when you deal with the problems again. Information about self esteem : All people have a mental picture of themselves , their strengths, and weaknesses . ( self concept/self image) The idea that self esteem and self image are related to how people behave in in society, preform at school, react to peer pressure, and interact with others has received a great deal of attention from psychologists and child development experts beginning in the 1980s.

Answer 2

EQ: What is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem? Self esteem meaning the pride you have in your self, and how you feel about yourself. Answer 2: Learning how to dance in a way that makes you feel the most content. Evidence : 1. Dance helps younger girls feel good about themselves because they are accomplishing something or Improving their self confidence. 2. Accomplishing a new physical activity such as dancing is important growing up, but your opionion about the way you dance is most important. Not the way others feel about how you dance. 3. In order to have high self confidence you need to care about your opionion and no one else's. If you feel good about the way you dance, that is all that matters. Sources: Interview with Atiana Price Interview with Debbie Head.

The Product

My product is " Personal growth as a leader". As well as improving my own self esteem and my song teams. We dance better as a group and as individuals.  It was important to improve my self esteem so that I can teach the girls how to improve their self esteem. I feel better about myself working on what I thought were my flaws. Working on your feelings towards yourself really helps you grow as a person. Accomplishing  increasing my self esteem  has help me become a better leader , to the girls in my Song team. Which helps the team and our dancing, dancing as one group instead of one person brings everyone together in a great way. I make sure that I go over what I did to build up myself esteem, ( going over my "flaws", and changing the way I feel about them. It helps them to know they can do it too, and feel better about themselves and the way they dance. At this point in my project I feel accomplished knowing I helped teenage girls feel better about themselves and that I improved my leadership skills. It has done great to my project.

Fourth Interview Questions

1.  Why is high self esteem important when growing up ?

2.  How does self esteem effect the person you end up becoming ?

3. How can high self esteem go to your head?

4. Why should young girls have a healthy self esteem?

5.  Why is it important to know how to keep a healthy self esteem?

6.  What is the best way to gain healthy self esteem?

7.  What are reasons teenage girls blame their parents for having low self esteem?

8. Why is it that teenage girls in this day and age have lower self esteem than previous generations?

9.  If physical activity is suppose to raise self esteem why do so many young girls have low self esteem even though their active?

10. What types of sports can raise girls self esteem ?

11. Is there a type of physical activity that young girls should start off with , instead of going right to the difficult sports?

12. Why do you think young girls should feel better about themselves before they start doing sports to increase their self confidence?

13. What is the difference between self esteem and self confidence, what makes them alike?

14. How is it possible that more active teenage girls have lower self esteem , than  girls that are no active?

15. How can teenage girls raise their self esteem?

16. Does having young relationships decrease self esteem, dealing with certain emotions that their hearts aren't ready for?

17. Can having a male best friend increase your self esteem more than a female best friend can?

18. Does the people a girl hangs out with effect the person they become if they have high self esteem?

19. Does low self esteem make it impossible to preform better in school and outside of school?

20. Why is it that some girls take their low self esteem and become bullies?

Independent component 2 plan approval

I plan on continuing my independent component 1, which is my Song team. Teaching the girls in my team to dance and come together as a team, helping their self esteem grow in a better way. I will have weekly practices , teaching the girls new routines. As well as coming through with my project and having at least 2 to 3 performances second semester. My essential question is what is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem. At the end of my project I would like to have "dancing in a way that helps a girl feel most content" as an answer to my essential question.   

Independent component one

I , Amanda Gutierrez Affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. Literal : I created a dance team called song, song it a cheerleading like team without all the stunts. I created this team to prove that dancing helps girls feel better about themselves, helping them raise their self esteem. I was used to hip hop or jazz like dancing so I wanted to step out of my element and see if it was just a type of dancing that made a girl feel good about their selves or was it any type of dance. What I got out of it was that it is any type of dancing if you eleven something new and accomplish it you start to feel better about yourself, a sense of fulfillment. Interpretive : From the 22nd of November to the first of February I taught 13 girls how to dance in a way I wasn't so familiar with. We practiced every Tuesday and thursday except for the week before we went off spring break, we practiced everyday. I taught the girls a routine to the song " Moves like Jagger" by Maroon 5 and " Turn me on" by Niki Minaj. Every week we learned something different or went over what we had learned the week before. I had been a captain of my color guard team in the eighth grade so I knew the approach I needed to bring to the table. To work with teenage girls you need to have a lot of patience . As well as giving them the right advice in the right way about dancing. It is also important to form a bond with your dancers because it helps them understand you in a different way . I got to know all the girls and it was a great experience because I told them to put their issues into their moves because it shows when you dance. I taught them to take those words " can't , suck, fail, etc" out of their vocabulary. In order to step further in learning something new you have to bring a positive attitude. So I made it clear that not only were they there to learn how to dance or improve their dancing but they were there to have a positive attitudes. I came across tons of difficulties such as having a hard time getting the girls to purchase the uniforms. I didn't want to preform without the uniforms because I think uniforms are an important part of being a team. If you look like a team you dance like a team. What I learned from teaching the girls in my song team how to dance , is it is true practice makes perfect. I saw such a change in their dancing on February first. They danced as a team but at the same time danced as one. It felt good knowing I helped them accomplish what they didn't think they could. Applied: What is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem? Having the girls in my song team grow as dancers really helped me answer my essential question. One of the best ways to help a teenage girl build self esteem is teaching them how to dance in a way they feel most comfortable. But comfortablity isn't always important its getting your dancer out of their comfort zone. But once you pull them out of their comfort zone they fell better because their not scared to try new things. I have read in several articles that learning how to dance is a way to increase your confidence. Dancing can be a big part of life especially growing up. So when you have the ability to dance or try your best to learn how to dance it feels good. I was in the fifth grade when I saw the movie Honey and from that day on I tried my hardest to learn the routines in that movie. Over the years I ended up making up my own routines and felt more confident when it came to dancing I front of big crowds. It's a sense of filliment and accomplishment. Accomplishing something that not everyone can do makes you fell good and increases your confidence level which is never bad.

20 min rough draft lesson plan

My iPad isn't letting me open up the google docs, I will fix it tomorrow. But here is the draft. Essential question : What is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem? Objectives , classmates will learn about Demi lovato and why she is such a strong model for young growing girls. Introduction : Introduce myself. State my essential question " what is the best way to help teenage girls build self esteem? State plan, which is to show the class why Demi lovato is a great role model and activity . Verification : What characteristics do you think a girl should have to be a great role model for young girls? Go over why a great role model is good to have when growing up. Time : 2 mins Important sources : http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/09/demi-lovato-a-role-model-for-girls/ Body: Literal: Why Demi Lovato is such a good role model, talking about the difficulties she grew up with. Such as the pressure she had to become as thin as the models she saw on magazines. Interpretive: By having a positive role model that you look up to, you too will become a positive person. If you have someone to look up to who is taking care of themselves your more likely to do the same. Applied: When a little girl is growing up especially in today's day in age their more likely to look through magazines and find a role model who they think is the best person to look up to but if they know what to look for they'll have a better chance when growing up and dealing with problems. Time:10 mins Visuals : power point Activity : Play a game , have 3-5 different role models , and groups will pick the best one. I will have pictures of different celebrities ,and show their different characteristics Time: 10 mins Visuals : PowerPoint Conclusion Main point of what I went over today My most important piece of research My end goal Time: 2 mins