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Nicole Richardson

This power point discusses how to best interview and how to get students involved with this process at an early age! Enjoy!

Nicole,

I agree with you that interviewing is commonly overlooked in schools. Just like you, I did not conduct my first interview until I was in college. The hardest part of the process for me was not only created the questions as you had mentioned, but also keeping up with the pace of the interviewee's speech. Creating open ended questions that do not influence the responses received can be very difficult. It is important that we, as teachers, incorporate interviews into our teaching earlier so that our students can have a better relationships with interviews than we did.

Great presentation of an important topic, Jessica

Nicole, I really liked your presentation. I also found it hard to conduct the interview for the literacy program project as well. I found myself just rattling off questions and having my person answer them without really giving a context because I did not understand some of the questions I was asking either. I tried to make the interview questions my own, but I found because of the topic that needed to be discussed, interview questions needed to be cut and dry. The interview during this semester I found that I could take the time to get to learn about the person I interviewed. It felt more like a conversation than just ask a question and get a response, which is one of the ideas that you pointed out in your presentation. I also liked how you gave an example of how to use interviewing as a classroom community building activity. Perfect time to do this. Great job!

Rachel