Teacher Interview Summary

Teacher Interview summary: I had the pleasure of interviewing the 3rd grade social studies teacher Mr. Columbie. As I observed Mr. Columbie on a weekly basis, I would constantly ask him questions on how he taught social studies in his classroom and what strategies he uses. Mr. Columbie informed me that he teaches social studies in his classroom once a week, but now that the students are preparing for the FSA test he has not been teaching social studies. He explained that the schools main focus is that every teacher is teaching and building students math and reading skills. He also explained to me that he can get in trouble with the principle if he were to teach a full social studies lesson in his classroom. He told me that for social studies he is giving his students reading passages and the students are answering comprehension questions at the end of the reading.

Mr. Columbie usually integrates reading and social studies together. He does this by incorporating reading books or passages in his lesson. For example, he might start a lesson by reading students a book that relates to the topic of the lesson he is going to teach. This also helps get the students engaged and excited for the lesson. Mr. Columbie believes that social studies is his

She learns about reading and math. Some of the things she has learned in social studies is about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. The student explained to me that she likes school because she gets to be with her friends. The student told me that she has not worked with maps yet in her class. The student likes to read, but she only reads in school. Her favorite stories are fiction stories. Her favorite subject are math and science because she like to do a lot of activities and her least favorite subject is social studies because she says it is boring. She told me that she would like to learn about the world and all the different