Sample Teacher Interview Report

I conducted an interview with first grade teacher Brandi Lawson at Lyon Elementary in the Republic School District. She was my son’s first grade elementary grade teacher my son is now in third grade. . Mrs. Lawson has been teaching for fifteen years. She graduated from Missouri State University with her degree in early childhood education.
1.) What is your philosophy of teaching? What is your most important function as a teacher?
a. “It’s too hard to say that there is one important function. For some kids I feel like my job is as it should be to educate them so they have all their ducks in a row at home but, with other kids that are not getting their meals I am their caregiver, I play the parental role. I teach them the basic life skills, …show more content…
a. “If anything it is more so. I want all my students to feel welcome and safe in my class and sometimes students who come into my class with special needs are timid because they feel left out or different. That is not how I want a student in my class to feel they are part of my family and I feel it is my job to make sure they know that. I want to be here to open them up and let them know it is okay to not have the right answer you are not the only one. By the end of the year my hope for them is to move on to the next grade with more confidence then when they entered my classroom.
3.) Do you keep in contact with the education teachers when it comes to the students in you …show more content…
If everybody is going at their own speed and not bothering with finding out where the student is or where the other educators are then the student education suffers. The information Mrs. Lawson gave me was helpful because it just verified my feeling teachers should be collaborating with each other and often. Also, this interview gave me some pointers as the best way to work with special needs children in my class and make them feel part of the class and not make them stand out as little as