Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

My chemistry professor at Cal Poly: 
1. How can a chemistry teacher best assess the scientific understanding of their class?
2. Regarding labs and lab reports, when creating your grading scale, what factors do you consider most important? Why?
3. What is the significance of students performing labs? 
4. Do you believe in requiring students to report their findings in manners of verbal communication? If so, how/why?
5. How can learning the scientific language be beneficial to a student?
6.  What is the importance of testing in a chemistry classroom?
7. In chemistry is it easier for students to learn in groups or independently?
8. How can you make sure that a chemistry experiment is an enjoyable learning tool?
9. At the beginning of the term, how do you assess each student to see what level they are currently at scientifically so that you are teaching them at their level?  
10. How do you go about creating a lesson plan for the beginning of the year? 
11. How do you go about assessing each student throughout the year?  
12. How do you feel science has changed in the past 10 years and how has if effected your teaching? 
13. Do you find yourself editing your lesson plan to personalize it to fit the needs of individual classes throughout the years? Have you ever been able to do this with individual students?
14. Do you do any review during the first few classes to help refresh students memories of their high school courses and to help identify students who may be struggling?  
15. Do you use any of your personal experiences to make your lessons more relatable to your students? If so, what?  
16. How can you turn your student's failure into a learning experience?
17. How do you think your textbooks aid the understanding of the students? Do you use any other materials to aid the learning your class?
18. Do you feel repetition in the homework assignments assists the student in learning the material? 
19. In all of your years of teaching, was there any experiences that stood out to you that made your career worth while? 
20. Do you have any advice for a student who wants to purse chemistry or even chemistry teaching as a career? 

Pang: 
1. How can a chemistry teacher best assess the scientific understanding of their class?
2. What is your goal as a chemistry teacher?  When developing your lesson plan, what aspects of your class do you wish your students would retain for the rest of their lives?
3. What is the importance of tests in a chemistry classroom?
4. What is your approach to teaching students with different characteristics and different learning strategies? 
5. During lectures how can you check for understanding?
6. When determining the weighting you put on different assignments, what did you encounter or what factors did you consider when you produced your final assessment standards? 
7. What is your goal as a chemistry teacher? 
8. What methods do you find most effective in your classroom? 
9. Why do you believe tests are implemented and valued so highly in a chemistry classroom? 
10. How can you make sure that a chemistry experiment in an enjoyable learning tool?
11. How has the integration of technology in the classroom effected your approach to teaching? 

My Grandfather: 
1. How can a chemistry teacher best assess the scientific understanding of their class?
2. What do you think students should focus on to truly understand chemistry? When/How did you realize you had a knack for the subject?
3. As a student, what was your biggest accomplishment? As a scientists? 
4. In your opinion, when does a student become a scientists?
5. What areas in chemistry did you find the most interesting?
6. Were there any interesting discoveries that you found through your research and development?
7. How do you incorporate your knowledge in chemistry and in teaching together? 
8. As a chemistry student what characteristics of teachers did you find most influential? 
9. Do you think that your profession had an influence on your the direction your children chose to follow? (one being a teacher and the other in medicine)
10. What would be the one piece of advice you would pass onto me, being your granddaughter, and knowing that I want to pursue a career in science, that you feel would be most beneficial for my professional growth?