Description Of A Interview As A Teacher

While growing up and observing my teachers at school, I have learned that it isn’t always an easy job. Teachers do everything they can to teach their students’ academic, social and other formative skills. Plenty of my teachers have to deal with complications, most of them being minor, but it isn’t always an easy job helping children, teens and young adults. As a student myself, I know they can be stubborn, unwilling to learn, aggressive, and irresponsible. Sometimes, they simply don’t care. However, that is a teacher's purpose: to help and shape their students to become better learners, so that they have a clearer understanding regarding a variety of subject matters. Someday, I actually want to become an elementary art teacher, which is

This is a very important component in education to be aware of and when you are a teacher. I interviewed a first-grade teacher at my local elementary school to gain more information about the processes that our local schools go through for professional training, interventions, and in the classroom to ensure that students are developing their abilities in reading. My main focus was on what our school’s process was, how support is given, professional training offered, and what more is needed to be done to increase success for students.

Under and over reporting is of equal concern because both affect the number of child abuse victims who are in need of help. “Failure to report exposes children to serious injury or even death and over reporting diverts resources from understaffed agencies, thus limiting their ability their ability to protect children in real danger” (Loseke, 285). Another issue is when to decide whether signs of abuse are actual signs of child abuse or just everyday injuries child usually inflict on themselves. Furthermore, this can also impact the whether a person will report the incident or not. For example, two people can see the same incident and depending on their knowledge of child abuse they can, either report it or determine it is not abuse. “A study of non-reporting among teachers, blamed their lack of knowledge for detecting symptoms of child abuse and neglect” (Loseke, 292).

I interviewed a childcare teacher engaged in the Early Childhood Development. She graduated from East Tennessee State University. She has been intrigued by children her entire life, she has volunteered with children with disabilities and worked with children since age 16. You can say that teaching has been a dream job of hers. Going through the interview I went through a series of questions as follows. What are positive and negative parts about being a teacher? What disciplinary styles work the best? And how can teaching in America be improved?

By 1986 mostly every state required other professions that work with families, such as nurses, teachers, and school staff, to be mandated to report child abuse (Hines et al., 2013, p. 51). Since the book took place in the 1970’s neither the teachers nor the staff reported to child protective services (CPS). Instead of reporting to CPS about the bruises or the reason as to why David was stealing food the teacher discussed her concerns to the principal and he called to discuss the matter with the David’s mother. Of course the mother sounded very convincing in explaining David wanted attention. Over the years there was been prevention programs with the goal of improving parenting skill and knowledge. There are primary prevention programs that target the general population through media campaigns. The secondary prevention programs focus on the populations that are high risk for abusing their children the goal is to provide them with skills and knowledge to prevent abuse. The tertiary prevention program provides the appropriate interventions to ensure that the families who already experiences abuse won’t happen again (Hines et al., 2013, p.

I interviewed a teacher from Seckman High School named Lori Bunting. I asked Lori several questions and she gave me more insight on the teaching career. Lori graduated from Southeast Missouri State in in 2000 with her Bachelors in Secondary Education and Mathematics. She then received her masters in classroom teaching in 2008 from Missouri Baptist University. With student teaching in my near future I thought asking her about her student teacher experience would give me some advice on what my next steps are. Lori student taught at two different schools and for eight weeks each. The first place she student taught was at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Missouri. Lori stated that the school was very small and only had one math teacher. She said this gave her an insight of what it would feel like to teach in a small school. On the other hand, she also taught at Cape Central High School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She said she really enjoyed this experience because the school was much bigger and she felt more involved in the school. She said that unlike today, she had no choice of where she student taught but she was grateful for the experience she had at both Oak Ridge High School and Cape Central High School.

Child abuse is not always obvious and many children are too young or too frightened to tell

According to the University of Michigan, the average student grades 1st through 12th goes to school for approximately 32.5 hours per week, additionally spending 4 hours per week on homework outside of the classroom (Swanbrow). When considering those numbers it’s without a doubt that school makes up the majority of a child's life. Therefore one can see the potential for a teacher to be a hugely influential force on adolescents. In the story "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez portrays the extremes of the student/teacher dynamics with two very different teachers. On one hand, there's Mr. Blessington, a mean-spirited, tough teacher that is constantly putting the kids down and telling them they'll never be more than criminals. On the other, Mr. Tapia, a nice, gentle and motivational teacher who is building kids up. After Mr. Blessington pushes a kid to the edge and there's an assault, Mr. Tapia helps to cover it up because he doesn’t want anyone to hurt their futures. Even though both these teachers were extremes on both ends of the spectrum, it raises good points about teaching styles and how to handle children/students. When it comes to teaching and fostering children's learning after seeing both sides that a happy medium of positive and negative reinforcement, nurturing and tough-love is needed to create a healthy compromise in classrooms.

I remember exactly where I was when I heard about the tragedy that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I was walking through the common room and the TV was turned on to a news station that was reporting what was happening at the school. I remember not being the only one who was clearly upset at what occurred. There were also other students gathering around the TV watching the TV waiting for updates and talking about what had happened. When I heard that Kaitlin Roig was going to speak at Westfield I knew I had to go to hear her speak. I had to hear her speak because I wanted to not only hear about her experience but I also knew that she would give helpful advice about being a teacher. I want to be a teacher and I knew that I could use all the advice I could get not only about how to be an excellent teacher but also about how the experience that her and many others went through had an impact on their lives. As a result, I went to see her speak and I will never forget the presentation that she gave to the Westfield community. I learned a lot from her presentation and there were many things she said that were important to me. In addition, she taught the community about how important empathy and social skills are in shaping the world.

I interviewed this remarkable teacher named, Mrs. Castillo. Mrs. Castillo is a math teacher here at Frank Augustus Miller Middle School. Mrs. Castillo is an immensely captivating person and she has extraordinary ways of teaching. So here is Mrs. Castillo’s revealing of her compulsive life.

Doctors and other people see child abuse, but few of them report it. People may not recognize it or just do not want to report it and then end up being wrong. In the article “Child Abuse” by John Lantos, it states, “Pediatricians may give adults the benefit of the doubt regarding injuries that may be associated with abuse (McCarthy 2008). They may also be fearful that child-abuse reports will be bad for business” (Lantos 2014). These

Teachers play a vital role in the lives of their students, not just as educators, but in many cases as the only positive adult role model in a child's life. Countless students have a greater experience in school than they do at home and teachers play an enormous role in that. Teachers are not only educators, but encouragers of students reaching their fullest potential. Students coming from broken homes may not have an adult in their life telling them that they can achieve greatness; which is where a teacher can play an extremely important role. When Rita Pierson told her class that they could be their best they were in disbelief; they needed her encouragement to realize the greatness they could achieve. Most kids have a hard time realizing

Many researchers believe that statistics based on official reports do not accurately reflect the prevalence of child abuse. Definitions of maltreatment vary from state to state and among agencies, making such statistics unreliable. Professionals who interact with children—such as teachers, day-care workers, pediatricians, and police officers—may fail to recognize or report abuse. In addition, acts of abuse usually occur in the privacy of a family’s home and often go unreported. Surveys of families, another way of estimating abuse, indicate that 2.3 percent of children in the United States—or about 1.5 million children—experience abusive violence each

     The maltreatment and neglect of children and youth has increasingly come to be perceived as a social blight. As with most social problems, child abuse influences our school systems. Children that are being emotionally, physically and sexually abused often use school as a cop out. These children spend around thirty hours a week in a safe, enjoyable and carefree environment, however within these thirty hours teachers must be taking the time to make observations. Teachers have the ability to compare current behaviors with peers, norms and past behaviors of their students. Therefore, teachers are an important role in reporting cases of child abuse or maltreatment.

As I got the opportunity to interview a teacher with 10 years or more experience it really showed me how Education has evolved. I ended up asking an old teacher of mine from my 9th grade center. His name was Mr. Birdy, and he was my 9th grade History teacher. We had a nice relationship as I excelled in his class. He accepted my request to interview him and we did it over the phone. He told me that he has been teaching for 15 years already, and he enjoys every minute of it.