04.02 - Effective Interviews

At the beginning of class today, we returned to our work with Abel and Glass' "The Art of Interviewing" with everyone responding to the post-reading question. This question looked at how people would revise the interview questions they wrote yesterday now that they had some pointers from this comic.

Next, we looked at the timeline for completing work for the remainder of our future exploration project (see checklist and calendar below).

For the remainder of class, we focused on behaviors during an interview that are effective and ones that are not effective. For this, I conducted two interviews with an interviewee about someone who was a role model for them. In the first interview, I exhibited poor interview skills while in the second interview, I exhibited more effective behaviors. Students observed these interviews and took note of the good and bad techniques that they observed. At the end of the interview, we checked in with the interview candidate to see what their experience was and how the different techniques affected them.

If you were not in class, you can view and take notes from the two interviews with Mr. Gannon.

Less Effective Interview:

More Effective Interview:

Handouts:
Future Exploration Project Assignment Checklist
Future Exploration Project Assignment Calendar
Interview Observation Notes

Submitted Today:
Interview Observation Notes

Homework:

Find sources for the "who" section of the future exploration research project and create notecards from these sources (looking to have 7 sources and 20 notecards or more for Monday)

Revisions:
Activities Speaker Presentation Notes (may need to review interview on 03.24) - due Friday 4/3
Reading questions for "Notes from the Underground" (may need to review "Notes from the Underground") - Due Friday 4/3