25 Aug Where and when did you graduate from high school? Was that a public school? If you did not graduate, tell me about when you last attended school.
EDU 216 Foundations of Education
Module 1: History of the American Education System
Interview Assignment Questions and Guidelines
Record the following information about your interview participant:
Name:
Their Age:
Your Age:
How you know this person:
Record the interview participant’s response to the following ten interview questions. You will add five additional questions before concluding the interview. The additional questions may be follow-up questions to answers you received or they can be entirely new topics. The choice is yours.
1. Where and when did you graduate from high school? Was that a public school? If you did not graduate, tell me about when you last attended school.
2. What do you remember most about the curriculum or focus of study when you were in school? What materials were commonly used?
3. Tell me about your teachers. Did they seem highly qualified and well trained? Were they well respected?
4. What do you recall about laws and legislation regarding education when you were in school? What was most memorable?
5. How, if at all, did you feel politics played a role in education?
6. What kind of role did freedom of speech have in education?
7. Were materials such as library books or videos censored? If yes, who censored them? Do you know why the material was censored?
8. How diverse were your classmates? Did you attend school with people of all races and ability levels? If no, why not?
9. What kind of extra-curricular activities were available to students?
10. What do you think was the biggest challenge of the school at the time you were attending school? Why that?
Your additional five questions will go here.
You will then need to answer these questions for yourself to be able to compare and contrast your experience to the person you interviewed. You can compile your information in a chart like the one below, or write a narrative.
Topic
(Interview Questions)
Interviewee’s Response
My Response
Similarities
Differences
You will also need to write a concluding paragraph summarizing your findings.
