So Long Social Studies Methods!
The last couple days of social studies methods ended with the class conducting mock interviews. Interviews are the thing that everyone fears at one point in their life. I survived my first job interview when I got my summer job. Of course I was horrified, but as I was going through it I just kept thinking of the outcome. I was going to work in classrooms with students who have special needs. I knew this was going to be a great experience and I wanted this job! This is the mindset I try to keep with all interviews! In class, we had 4 administrators. which were our colleagues, and they went around to each of our fieldwork groups asking us different questions about social studies, cooperative learning, and technology. All of the interviewers did a great job with the questions the prepared! They really helped to sum up what we learned in the course and got us thinking about what we actually might want to say in a real interview! My favorite questions that they asked were the one