Blog 23: Interview 5

1. What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

• I want to do something with psychology because it's something that interests me and I feel I'm good at.
• (Recommendation) Be sure to specify your topic, psychology is too broad of a subject.

2. What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning which is due prior to senior year starting?

• Actually my psychologist recommended me to another psychologist so I wish to showed that person.
• (Recommendation) Make sure to not give up in finding a service learning place, I did the mistake of leaving it last minute and it seriously hurt my project (topic) knowledge.

3.What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• I hope to see helpful things, like what things to do and what not to do and not make the same mistakes.
• (Recommended) Make sure to really pay attention in the presentations, I didn't and I regret it. It could have helped me out so much in mine.

4. What questions do you have about senior year?

• "Is it really as hard as they say it is?" Answer: "Not really, it's a lot to handle if your one of those persons that are used to procrastinating. I was and it seriously was too much for me to handle.
• (Recommendations) Make sure to not miss deadlines, do everything on time, manage your time, choose your topic wisely and make sure you love it because it will make the whole senior project process so much easier and just enjoy every part of it.

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the most successful way to teach a kindergarten classroom?

2. What lesson techniques have you used that seem effective?

3. How do you develop your lesson plans? 

4. Which factors should be kept in mind when teaching kindergarteners?

5. How should your relationship with your students be kept?

6. Do you feel like a parent/teacher relationship should be maintained?
7. What sort of activities are good to include in daily lessons?
8. How much does it affect your classroom when a children with a learning disorder is in your own classroom?
9. What type of things do you think make a successful teacher?
10. How do you know you have created a well done lesson?
11. Do you use the same lesson plans yearly or so you change them?
12. As a teacher what are the things or signs you should know to see if a child is having difficulty learning but just won't speak up?
13. How important is parent involvement and why?
14. What have you done or what would you do if you see a child struggling? How would you approach the situation?
15. What is the best way to act like in a classroom, in other words is it better to be a strict teacher in order to see your students with good behavior?
16. How do you handle misbehavior?
17. What must a typical lesson include?
18. Is every lesson you teach approached similarly or do you use other methods?
19. What teaching method(s) has helped you the most through out our teaching career with your kids? Why?
20. In what area do most kindergartners need help on most and how have you attempted to decrease the problem?