Blog 16 : Answer 2

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1)  My Essential Question is: What is the most effective support for underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle?

2)  My first answer is: One of the most efficient support system for underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle is the Social Development Strategy as given by the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan.

3)  A second answer as an efficient support system for underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle is when a child has intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation to achieve for something greater than what their current circumstance offers them.

4)  a.) A child that lives in an impoverished situation growing up with constant struggling does not want live the life his parents lived.  As a result, his motivation for having a better life is intrinsic. b.) A child has an underprivileged life, and his/her parents do not want their child to have the life that they had. As a result the child is given extrinsic motivation from a parental source to achieve greater. c.)If a child is poor and has extrinsic motivation but no intrinsic motivation, there is no guarantee of success.

5) A teaching guide taken from the Vanderbilt University, Center of Teaching website. (http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/motivating-students/ & (http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/05/dopamine-impacts-your-willingness-to-work/)

6)  For each of my independent components, I am working on a documentary interviewing people from different backgrounds, most underprivileged, that are high school students, high school dropouts, college students, college dropouts, and college graduates. Everyone has unique circumstances, but the one's that are successful have a clear view of their goal and how to get there.

7)  For an underprivileged youth to succeed, their needs to be some sort of inner motivation and vantage point despite personal setbacks and unfortunate events.