Blog 9

Blog 9: Draft an interview protocol for your research project.  If you are not doing interviews, draft an interview protocol that you could use if you decided to do your project a different way.

Questions for interview

How do teachers comment on student work? Why?

This is Tania Flores Interviewing ________________ the topic is teacher comments on student's work.  

Easy Questions

1. How long have you been a teacher?

2. Where did you go to college?

3. What grade do you teach?

4. Have you taught any other grades?

Medium Questions

5. What made you decide to become a teacher?

6. Did you always know you wanted to be a teacher?

7. Can you recall the most influential teacher you had growing up?...(Why?)

8. What is your teaching philosophy?

More Intense Questions/ Opened Ended Questions

9. What kinds of writing assignments do you usually give your students?

10. Where do you do most of your grading? At school? Home? etc...

11. During which part and/or day of the week does most of your grading happen?

12. Walk me through your thought process when you're about to start grading a paper?

13. Do you have a pattern you follow?

14. Did you always follow this pattern process? 

15. Has your method of grading papers evolved?

16. Do you use a rubric?

17. Do you make margin corrections?

18. Do you give feedback at the end of the paper?

19. What writing device do you use to make the corrections?

20. Do you ever meet in person with students to discuss their work?

21. What is your overall goal in providing feedback and/or correction to students?

22. Do your students follow your suggestions?

23. Do you see improvement from one draft to another? From one assignment to the next?

24. How do you help students improve their writing?