Please interview 2 teachers in your grade level at your placement and answer the questions below.

Teacher Interview Questions

1. How do you decide how the classroom/work centers/stations are arranged?

a. The classroom/work centers/sections are arranged in zones. It is set up to where it is an
open setting with everything labeled. The carpet is boxed in to keep the children in a
contained space. It is arranged in a way that is functional for the kids.
2. How do you primarily keep in communication with parents?
a. There are three ways she communicates with parents. She communicates with them by
email, a daily communication folder, and google classroom. Sometimes, she will call
them.
3. How is your curriculum for core subjects designed?
a. The main focus of pre-k is socialization. Math and literacy are imbedded, but the main
focus of the curriculum is social skills. Math and science are sometimes rotated
throughout the curriculum.
4. Are any pre assessments completed before the onset of school or at the beginning of the year?
a. They have a pre assessment before the inset of school called an ASQ, Ages and Stages
Questionnaire. It is a parent questionnaire that gets parents to answer questions
regarding the child’s fine motor skills, gross motor skills, social skills, problem solving,
and a few questions about math and colors. There is a second part of the test that is
strictly regarding social/emotional skills and behavior.
5. How is the daily routine designed?
a. The classroom works based on the Frog Street curriculum. It is broken down into
sections. They start with greeting circle, then movement and music, then read aloud,
then outdoor time, then math small groups while at centers, then read aloud, then
literacy small groups, then another outdoor time, then lunch, then nap, and finally
closing time. The schedule goes by how curriculum is set up. The centers are decided by
the early childhood department, but the teacher chooses materials in centers and lets
children have choice in which center to go to.
6. What sort of behavior management techniques are used in the classroom?
a. The type of behavior management that is used in the classroom is conscious discipline. It
is a system where you have to understand that a child’s brain isn’t fully developed yet to
know how to behave correctly, so the teacher just has to monitor behavior. This means
that they do not put the children in time out. Instead, they have talks and explain why
their behavior was incorrect. They model good behavior, instead of punishment or
correcting in a punitive way.
7. How did you manage all the school supplies as they were brought into the classroom? What
would happen if students were unable to bring in the school supplies?
a. They are not required to bring school supplies. It is funded through the early childhood
program.
8. How do you know how students are going home each day?
a. At the beginning of the year, parent fill out a transportation form. Also, there are given
color coded bands on their book sacks that say what bus they ride.
9. How do you keep up with the children in your class? Do they wear a name tag, badge, etc.?
a. At the beginning of the year, they wear a name badge.
10. Where is all the emergency information kept? (Allergy list, emergency phone numbers,
transportation list, etc.)
a. The teacher has a copy and the school has a copy in front office. There is a paper copy
and a copy on Power School, a website.
11. What is the WORST thing that has ever happened the first week of school?
a. During dismissal, the kindergarten students used to split amongst the teachers
according to how they get home. One student was sitting in the day care van line and
accidentally got on the wrong day care van. Around 5:00 they got a call that she was not
at her day care. The teacher called around at the day cares and found her. The teacher
went there and met her parents.