English Professor Interview

I interviewed Durward “Durk” Lynch he is in my field of interest where I want to work as one day. He is a Nurse Practitioner at the Vanden Bosh Clinic and at the College Clinic. He gave information on his background and what drove him to be a Nurse Practitioner (NP). He really has had a lot of experience, as I will explain to you what he has shared.

To me college is like the next step of life to adulthood; it is where you get a taste of the authentic world and learn how to adjust and manage on your own. In addition, it can be a place of magnification and polished skills within a community that strives for a prosperous life with an effulgent vocation. Thus, attending college was compulsory for me in order to reach future goals, and North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT) transpired to be just right for me. The distance was within range and they have an outstanding mechanical engineering program that I could solemnly benefit from. Overall, attending this university has opened many doors of opportunities that arrange with my personal and professional goals through their culture and community. Furthermore, I endeavor to put myself first and review my precedent accomplishments to strive for better while exposing myself to incipient challenges and obstacles.

Being a former student of three different universities, including the one of South Florida, then the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and finally University

I asked her the following question about what drew her in, to attend, the University of Arizona rather than other institutes she was admitted to. She replied, “Growing up I went to ASU football games and when it came time to choose where I wanted to go, I thought about how Arizona State University was too close to home, I did not want to be a binocular distance from my parents”. The two hour drive from Phoenix to Tucson

An interview with Professor Kok was used as a foundation for the project and conformed to “preliminary research techniques” (Crosby, Diclemente and Salazar, 2006), practiced among professional health environments. This allowed the efficient planning of the overall Research Development. As the interview was a major primary source within the study, it was useful in supporting, contradicting and reinforcing ideas and concepts argued by various secondary sources. Professor Tuckweng Kok, who specialised in Clinical Virology, providing the investigative report with a professional and honest perspective of the prevalence of HIV. This credibility was reinforced, by the inclusion of specialist terminology in the interview, such as “nucleic acid sequences”,

For Interview a Professor Assignment I decided to Interview Tao Xu. He is my Chemistry professor; he is teaching for 12 years. Also, he joined the Northern Illinois University on August 12, 2006, for many reasons but one of the main reason was family and resource. In 2006 he was an assistant professor of chemistry, biochemistry and nanotechnology. In 2012 he was promoted to Associate professor. Also, currently he serves as a Resident Associate for Argonne National Laboratory in the Materials Science Division.

Ashlyn Edwards is an elementary school grades teacher and is licensed to teach grade levels K-6. She currently resides in Texas and has taken some time off from teaching to be with her family. Before taking the time off, Ashlyn worked in two different schools, one of which was in Georgia and the other in Kansas. In Georgia, she taught Kindergarten and in Kansas she taught grade 1. I chose to interview Ashlyn because I had met her several years ago through another friend and I found out she was a teacher at that time. Even though I had not got to know more about Ashlyn before this interview, I was hopeful that she would be able to provide me some insight into what it is like being a teacher and the ups and downs of the job. I asked Ashlyn five questions related to her job and she provided answers that not only guided me but also helped me to understand ways that I can become prepared to teach.

Do you think Serge’s skills were assessed adequately? Do you think he was correctly identified as learning disabled? Why or Why not?

All of my life, I have worked hard to improve myself. I was born in Nigeria and received a bachelor's degree in electrical electronic engineering. Afterwards, I was employed in a variety of capacities in the fields of IT. This was very exciting, because Nigeria is a nation that is only just beginning to enjoy the full fruits of the worldwide digital revolution. I was able to assist in building IT infrastructures from 'the ground up' in the companies where I was employed.

S is a 59 year old African-American female born and raised in Anson County who has attended several institutes of higher learning. After earning a Bachelor of Science in Secretarial Administration from Barber-Scotia College, she later received special education teaching licensure from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Because of her love for learning, S has also taken online classes through the University of Phoenix. She has been a secondary special education teacher for three years and currently works with 8th graders at Anson Middle School.

I did a personal interview with (L. McIntyre, personal communication, March 30, 2017) Mrs. McIntyre started the interview by asking, what I would like to discuss first; I informed her that I will like to discuss her educational background and training. Mrs. McIntyre stated that she received an Associated Degree in General Education back in 2008 from Phillips Community College in West Helena

East Hall High School is where I conducted my coaching interview. I was granted the opportunity to interview one of the most prestige High School coaches in the state of Georgia; Joe Dix. Dix is the head coach for the boys’ Varsity basketball team at East Hall. Dix and his staff were conducting try outs during our coaching interview, which is was pumped about. Coach Dix talked about the pressure on him and his team to bring home a State Title this year since it’s been a decade since his last one. Joe Dix is in his 21st season as a basketball coach and his 11th as the head coach at East Hall. As the head coach at East Hall Dix has won 2 State Titles, with 5 Final Four appearances, and 7 Region Championships.

The Human Services Informational Interview was conducted on the phone I interviewed Tara Dakolios. She started in the Human Services field with a Master degree in Education from Virginia College and started working at the Hilton head Preparatory School. After working there for years she missed doing education and had an opportunity with the University of South Carolina Beaufort as an advisor. Before being in the Human Services Field she wasn’t aware of it being declared a major and knew she always had a passion for helping people. The skills utilized in the Human Services Field are being adaptive, organized, multi-tasking and time management. College help prepare her for the field in many aspects such as being a basketball coach and assisting

Thank you for the opportunity to interview for the 11th and 12th grade English/language arts position at Long County High School. I would like to describe for you my philosophy of teaching English/language arts so that you can better understand how I plan to teach students at your school. In “Vygotsky and the Social Dynamics of the Classroom,” Peter Smagorinsky (2007) writes, “thinking is a product of cultural practice and so people from diverse backgrounds often frame social situations and how to act in them differently” (p. 66). What I believe Smagornisky is concluding here is that our cultural background helps determine how we will frame our social interactions. Coming into your school as an outsider, I have little knowledge of the cultural backgrounds of your students. Therefore, my first initial aim will be one of discovery. I will need to discover what the culture of my 11th and 12th grade students is. Where do they come from? Are

In 2011, I left high school flustered. I did not know were I was headed, I couldn 't see in a sense I was in complete darkness. I left St. Catherine’s perplexed, because I had no clue what to do with my life. I believe this was partially due to the classes that I took at St. Catherine 's. I did not really have any classes that I thought that stood out to me. However, I do think that in high school i did learn to be open minded.We were always taught to ask why? And I think that it is because of this as to why I decided to become a Communications major. If you took a look at my DARS my freshman year it would inform you that I was a nursing major. At the time it seemed like a good idea to me because I liked helping people. But as time passed, I came to the realization that the Nursing major was not for me.