Examples Of PCE Teacher Interview Form

PCE Teacher Interview Form

These are the questions you should ask the classroom teacher.

1. What is your philosophy of teaching?

Mrs. Jackson follows the philosophies of Dr. Glasser. Mrs. Jackson uses Dr. Glasser’s Lead Management strategy to include her students in making classroom decisions. Lead Management is a management style where the teacher is the leader not the “boss” of a classroom. She adopted this philosophy because of her own experiences as a student. Mrs. Jackson attended a Catholic school where the teachers were very strict. All lessons were lecture style with essay only assessments. Students were expected to memorize whole chapters. When she graduated and started college she learned that she did not retain much of what she had been taught so she decided to find a better way.

2. What are the standard components of your lesson plans? Are you required to use a certain format by your school? How have your lesson plans evolved as you have become more experienced as a teacher?

IN the early years of her teaching she taught in a school that had a form teachers had to fill out. All lesson plans had to be approved by department head and same grade level teachers. Every teacher in a specific grade taught the same lessons. This was to assure every third grader had the same information taught in the same way. This was the school district 's answer to the achievement gap. As Mrs. Jackson became more experienced and moved schools she found she wanted to utilize her time on more productive aspects of teaching so she threw out the formal lesson plans. Now when she writes a new lesson plan most of her time is spent researching materials and questions. What she actually writes is notes on a notecard. They include things like materials, resources, and a completed