First Group Interview Paper

For the purpose of this interview, I interviewed Mrs. Ann Clare- School Psychologist and Mrs. Scott Nelson- School Principal.

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 had the pleasure of interviewing one of our church parisinors, Ms. Maria. Ms. Maria is 75 years old Hispanic woman who has been a widow for the past three years. Ms. Maria was basically a stay at home Mom when her children were young and when she did work she worked as an assembly line worker. Her wages were low and her pension that she currently receives is not enough to meet her monthly needs. Her husband was the main bread winner prior to him dieing of a massive heart attack at the age of 78 while he was at work. Her husband was a cook in a resturanrt and had decied to continue to work until some of their loans were paid off. Since his death, Ms. Maria has been depressed, anxious and struggling to make ends meet and has recently been diagnosed with hypertension. Her three children live out of state a don’t get to visit often.

Bean I should be aware of the issues of conflict of interest. I need to make sure that our law firm has never represented Ms. Bean’s spouse. If this is the case at all I will need to inform her that we are unable to represent her. If I know Ms. Bean personally at all this would potentially cause a conflict of interest. Especially if I personally know her spouse as well. By carrying on this interview it will give me a great deal of insight into hew case and if any type of conflict of interest may occur I need to be very honest with Ms. Bean, as our potential client, because it could cause a change in the outcome of the case all together if she chooses to have us represent her (ABA, Rule 1.7). Of course I need to keep in mind the ethical rule of confidentiality. Whatever Ms. Bean shares with me is confidential, so it is only to stay between the firm and herself and she should be comfortable in knowing she can tell us anything and it will never leave the law firm (ABA, Rule

CW is a 49-year-old female who lives in Kingston, PA. She currently lives with her husband and two children. She is employed as nurse at First Hospital, in Kingston, PA. CW recently began a new job in a different department of the hospital. CW expressed that throughout her adult life, raising her family is most important to her. She is focused on accomplishing her roles of being a wife, mother, nurse, and daughter. She likes to be social and meet new people. CW values her independence and finds every job that she is involved in to be important. She dislikes people who put other people down. Overall CW values her family and hard work ethic.

I Interviewed Morgan Browne who is the special services department chair over at Copper Canyon high school. Morgan explained that there are different levels of Response to Interventions (RTI). RTI level 1 is for the majority of the students in a classroom, tier 1 will include day to day instructions, checking for understanding, and re-teaching, which ensures that most of the students are able to access the material and to master it. Common assessments are used to see if students are able to move onto the next skill. Tier 2 is for a smaller population of students who will need more specific interventions in small groups work. Tier 3 is for students who do not quite getting the skills. Tier 3 will be where a Child find team would come together to determine if the student needs extra help and support outside of the regular general education interventions that were put into place. Students that are recommended for a child find, are students that are demonstrating a need that may require more individualized, specialized supports throughout the school day. This group will come together and consider a 504 or an IEP, data is

When we were given this assignment I was very uneasy about talking to another person about personal matters. Let alone someone who I had never had a conversation with and was of a different race and ethnicity. My interviewee's name is Micheal. He considers himself black of African American descent. He is a black 36 yr old black male. Michael was born in San Bernardino, CA. He’s an educated and a professional male who works in college. He is the father of 2 boys, happily married. His wife is considered a white woman. Michael is the second from the oldest of about 9 children. He was raised by his aunt and uncle who he very happily calls, mom and dad. They had 2 adopted children when he was taken in and then they adopted 2 more after him. He smiles

A collateral interview was conducted with Chelsea Barnes, former nursing assistant for Ms. Leavitt father. Ms. Barnes reported that she resides in Richmond Hill, NY. She has three children 22, 19, and 8. She also indicated that she has a grandson who is 9 months old. She indicated that her children was not difficult to manage. She reported that she does not have experience handling children who are aggressive.

The Sierra Academy serves student with learning disabilities. They have variety of programs which include speech therapy, occupational therapy, small class sizes, counselling services, small group instruction/specialized programming. I was privileged to observe and interview Maria Gonzalez’s class for six hours. I had a good experience with the class and felt that I should share my story. Eighty percent of the class needs where mild to moderate. Although, I saw a couple of those who could function pretty well on their own with little or no supervision.

For my interview of a healthcare professional, I interviewed Todd Reynolds of the imaging department at Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, Iowa. Todd has worked at Virginia Gay for about six years and has worked in the healthcare field for almost 44 years. Due to him working in the healthcare profession for so long, I decided to interview him to find out what has made him stay in one career field for so long.

Jeremy Bird started by buying a chip and tuning his own Buick Grand National. Jeremy then Bought chips for his own car and realized that the chips weren’t right, he decided he wanted to correct it, and felt the need to make the industry better. In 2002 Jeremy bought the software required to tune and began to sell chips at $100 per chip and his career carried from there.

A collateral interview was conducted with Ms. Joann DeSimone, paternal grandmother. She reported that her son did not have a history of substance or alcohol problems. She indicated that her son has not had any mental health issues.

In order to obtain a more rounded response, I interviewed my 16-year-old daughter Sarah, and a long-time friend Stephanie, who is 45 years old. The different perspective of the two interviews was impressive.

The ministry leader, I interviewed was Mr. Herbert. He has unorthodox ministry, where he ministers to men through cutting hair. Mr. Herbert has turned his passion and talent into a ministry that has transformed many lives.

I interviewed a good friend of my best friends aunt. I was extremely comfortable asking the question that were noted in the assignment along with the additional follow up questions. I explained that if there was anything that I asked that she did not feel comfortable answering she could let me know. I also explained that she could give me as little or as much information she felt comfortable speaking about. My goal was to show the almost respect and empathy towards the individual I was interviewing because of the natural of the topic.