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Go Forth and Brainstorm! -- Interview Guide

Personal Questions for the Beginning of the Interview

1.) What is your name? Job title? Educational background?--Jeflemin 21:17, 12 February 2007 (EST)

2.) What teaching techniques do you use in your class? --Jataylo4 21:52, 9 February 2007 (EST)

3.) Describe a recent day in your classroom that you felt you really "reached" your students.--Jataylo4 21:52, 9 February 2007 (EST)

4.) Was teaching something that you always wanted to do? If so, what influenced your decision and if not, who or what made you change your mind? --Daneal 16:48, 11 February 2007 (EST)

5.) What other classes do you teach (besides the class I will be observing)? How long have you been teaching in general? this particular class? other classes you now teach? --Ruth 13:38, 13 February 2007 (EST)

6.) What advice would you give to a new faculty member? Also what advice would you have for adjunct faculty looking at full time position? Are there advantages and disadvantages to teaching full time?--Daneal 15:34, 13 February 2007 (EST)

7.) I am interested in hearing about your professional background. Let's talk about your early days as a teacher. How is that you became interested in the teaching profession?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

8.) I am also curious to know what you consider to be your primary role and responsibility as an instructor? Can you describe to me what you consider your role and relationship as an instructor of adults?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

9.) I purchased a copy of the required text for this class. I understand you are the author of "Make Your Resume Talk." Can you tell me how it is you came to creating your own textbook for the purpose of the course?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

10.) Are your beliefs peripheral or central to your image of self as teacher? Does that make you more or less open to change?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

11.) What educational path did you take to get this job? --Ectrado 23:51, 14 February 2007 (EST)

12.) What factors went into your decision of becoming a teacher for higher education versus K-12 education? --Ectrado 23:51, 14 February 2007 (EST)

13.) What was the scariest thing about your first time teaching? --Ectrado 23:51, 14 February 2007 (EST)

14. What are some strategies that you used at the beginning of your career that you now think are either no longer necessary or wrong? --Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

15. How often do you reflect on your techniques as a teacher and what do you do to adjust? --Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

16. Which instructional strategies do you use in a college setting that you would not use in a high school or middle school setting and why? --Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

17. What would you consider the most important thing you've learned from your students? --Summerlin 11:48, 19 February 2007 (EST)

18. How do you balance teaching adults while involved in an ambitious research agenda?--Fdhamilt 21:37, 21 February 2007 (EST)

19. How do you maintain your bright personality, enthusiam and sense of optimism when working with such a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate students?--Fdhamilt 21:44, 21 February 2007 (EST)

20. Do you change the way you teach from year to year?--Fdhamilt 21:44, 21 February 2007 (EST)

Questions about Planning

1.) What do you do the first day of class each semester? --Peggy 15:58, 10 February 2007 (EST)

2.) How much do you revise your course plans and materials after each offering of a course? What influences you in making revisions? --Peggy 15:58, 10 February 2007 (EST)

3.) How many different preps do you have each semester? Does this determine the amount of changes or revisions that you make in your courses? --Daneal 16:52, 11 February 2007 (EST)

4.) Do you consult with other instructors who might be teaching the same or like courses to see if their planning strategies might be applicable to your class?--Daneal 16:52, 11 February 2007 (EST)

5.) Do you have different teaching styles depending on the class you teach? --Ruth 13:38, 13 February 2007 (EST)

6.) How do you pace your class to reach those students who are struggling while keeping interested those who already understand? --Ruth 13:45, 13 February 2007 (EST)

7.) I'd like to get a general picture of what you do during the course of a session? How would you describe your teaching routine? --Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

8.) Is there normally a significant order or structure to your content that's important either to learning or in teaching? --Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

9) I am curious about your feelings about the subject matter and area in which your teach. What do you want people to learn?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

10.) Do you consider your learners to be in a position to transfer and apply what they learn in these short, intensive sessions?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

11.) Have you considered learning in this context and application in another for your adult learners?--Lekavcsa 22:57, 14 February 2007 (EST)

12.) What advice would you give to a teacher on their first day? --Ectrado 23:51, 14 February 2007 (EST)

13. What are things that you've recently added to your course that were not there in previously? --Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

14. How do you adjust to different learning styles of your students? --Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

15. In an your ideal setting, how many hours and days a week would you like to teach your course? Why? --Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

16. How many hours a week do you expect your student to do out of the classroom work? Why did you pick that number?--Clwilli4 09:43, 19 February 2007 (EST)

17. How has your planning evolved since you first started teaching? --Summerlin 11:48, 19 February 2007 (EST)

18. How do you address the variations in knowledge among your students? --Summerlin 11:48, 19 February 2007 (EST)

19. Do you anticipate that your students’ beliefs will effect what they perceive you are trying to teach them? --Ectrado 16:58, 20 February 2007 (EST)

20. Do you use work from students in previous classes, with former students' permission, as examples for future classes?--Fdhamilt 21:53, 21 February 2007 (EST)

21. Do you have an average amount of time you spend in preparation prior to each class?--Fdhamilt 21:53, 21 February 2007 (EST)

22. How do you plan peer-to-peer in class and out of class collaborations?--Fdhamilt 21:53, 21 February 2007 (EST)