High School English Teacher Interview Questions

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High School English Teacher Interview Questions

by Kathy

Apr 21, 2013

Hello everyone!

I am a Single-subject English teaching credential student in California looking to teach high school English.

For a class that I'm taking, I've been asked to interview English teachers. So, while I'm asking for interviews from the teachers at my student-teacher placement, I thought I'd check online as well!

Here are the questions. If anyone is teaching high school English and wants to participate, please respond!

1. What have you found are the most difficult things for students to understand or be able to do related to characterization in literature? 2. Can you recount something you learned about literary characterization that helped you with your teaching of characterization? 3. Have you found anything in particular that has helped your students understand and do things with characterization? 4. Have you had any particular success in helping one or more EL students to better understand literary characterization? If not, do you have ...See More

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HS Teacher I have never had an administrator ask me any questions like this. They ask questions about discipline, management, and how kids learn.

On 4/21/13, Kathy wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I am a Single-subject English teaching credential student in > California looking to teach high school English. > > For a class that I'm tak...See More

Apr 23, 2013

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Sara On 4/21/13, Kathy wrote: > Hello everyone! I relate literature to life- I tell literature is a mirror held up to life. In life do we change as people? Are ther events or circumstances in a life that can cause people to change? As an exercise, I ask them to consider some event in their life that brought them some new Wareness and/ or that impacte...See MoreOn 4/21/13, Kathy wrote: > Hello everyone! I relate literature to life- I tell literature is a mirror held up to life. In life do we change as people? Are ther events or circumstances in a life that can cause people to change? As an exercise, I ask them to consider some event in their life that brought them some new Wareness and/ or that impacted on their character - in a positive or negative way.

With that the only thing that remains difficult is when a character chaned in a way they do not understand. Teenagers tend to believe that their reaction is the only reaction possible to a siitauation. And also difficult are those characters that none of understand - like Iago in othello - why is Iago so mean, so conniving? Shakespeare never gives us any clues.

> EL students struggle with language - not ideas., not characterization, not plot, just with what's being said. I provide them with translations or subtitled versions of what we might be watching.

But their cultural intpretations can very different from ours and why not. Ours are no more correct than theirs. Some EL students see Iago are everyday normal as in - well, doesn't everybody act that way? Our culture puts a certain emphasis on being nice ( even though we aren't always nice and have become a people quick to anger and judge) but some of my EL students say that all know an Iago and often it's their landlord or the rich guy's son down the block. > I am a Single-subject English teaching credential student in > California looking to teach high school English. > > For a class that I'm taking, I've been asked to interview > English teachers. So, while I'm asking for interviews from > the teachers at my student-teacher placement, I thought I'd > check online as well! > > Here are the questions. If anyone is teaching high school > English and wants to participate, please respond! > > 1. What have you found are the most difficult things for > students to understand or be able to do related to > characterization in literature? > 2. Can you recount something you learned about literary > characterization that helped you with your teaching of > characterization? > 3. Have you found anything in particular that has helped > your students understand and do things with characterization? > 4. Have you had any particular success in helping one or > more EL students to better understand literary > characterization? If not, do you have any tips about this? > 5. Do you have a sample lesson or activity related to > characterization that you would be willing to share? > > Thanks so much! > -Kathy

Apr 26, 2013

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