Blog 18: Fourth Interview Preparation

Content: Post 20 open-ended questions you want to ask an expert in the field concerning your senior project. The focus of your questions should be on your answer to your EQ.

What is the most effective method to raise standardized test scores?

1. What is the most helpful source you turn to for new teaching methods?
2. Have you seen a change in student performance with the new Common Core State Standards?
3. How do you manage to keep your students on task at all times?
4. What was a method you used for the old California Standards test?
5. Is there any teaching method you implement that works no matter what you teach?
6. What is one method that definitely doesn't work in any classroom?
7. How do you adapt your students to new strategies? 
8.  What excites the students most about learning?
9. Do you think that creating level groups in class helps the students learn better? Why?
10. What do you think is the hardest part of getting high test scores at the end of the year?
11. Have you tried implementing the arts to teach new concepts? Did it work out?
12. How would you explain your personal teaching style?
13. Do you think the students should adapt to the test, or the test to the students? Why?
14. Should the parents be more involved in the students' learning?
15. How does Common Core training help you in the class?
16. Do you think some of the material you teach is outdated?
17. Would a technological approach help students raise their test scores? Why?
18. What is a struggle that people fail to see within a classroom?
19. How can a teacher get at least 75% of their class to pass with a Proficiency score?
20. How would you go about answering my essential question?

Blog 6: Second Interview Preparation

The purpose of the second interview is to justify your mentor as an expert in the field.  Thus, you will be asking them at least 5 questions about their background and/or the background of the organization or company where they work.

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?

My mentor is Traci Johnson and she is a third grade teacher at E.J. Marshall Elementary School in Chino. 

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

- What inspired you to become a teacher?

-What qualifications are needed for this job? 

-What was the hardest course you took and why? 

-What have been the major differences that you've seen during your years of teaching? 

-What qualities are needed to become successful in this field ? 

Blog 4: Interview Preperation

1.Who do you plan to interview? Why?

I plan on interviewing Mrs. Day, a third grade teacher at my elementary school because I am focusing on how elementary school teachers prepare their students for testing and what are the methods that work. She also has a lot of experience because she was my elementary teacher and has been there before me. She knows different ways the test has ran and has a lot of experience in trying different methods in order to raise the scores.

2.You have to ask 5 questions. What additional questions to you plan to ask?

• What do you think is the best method to preparing students for the test?
• What's the hardest part in preparing the students?
• How is teaching affected by the standards that have to be learned by the end of the year?
• How to you include other lessons besides those of the California standards?
• In your opinion would a change in the testing be for the better? What parts should change? 
• How have you tried to transition into common core?