Interview LEsson Plans?

How they present their findings rather depends on what sort of findings they have to present. What sort of interviews are they conducting? What sort of information are they trying to uncover?

If it’s something basically factual, they could turn it into charts and graphs. If they are doing more personal interviews, then a write-up with oral presentation would work.

It’s hard to answer this question without a bit more info.

Hey Treemeadow! No problem, us teachers have writer’s block all the time!!! You did something right though…you asked for help, so here it is:

First, make sure that cooperative groups are appropriate for the lesson. Sometimes, groups are better utilized if students have already done an interview and have something in common with their interviewee’s. If it is a REQUIREMENT that you use the groups prior to the interviews, it will be a challenge, but totally possible.

DON’T LET THEM GET INTO THEIR GROUPS UNTIL YOU HAVE EXPLAINED THE WHOOOOOOOOOOLE MAIN IDEA/RULES OF THE LESSON FIRST!!!!

Groups are best when they are hetergenously mixed (well mixed in ability, age and gender). In your situation with 28 kids…seven groups of 4 would work best. You really shouldn’t put any more than 5 students in any one group.

Assign each student in each group a “job”. For example, my teams usually have a “group leader/organizer” a “time keeper/reporter” a “recorder/materials manager” and a “fact checker”. Here are the descriptions for each of their jobs:

Group Leader/Organizer: Responsible for the behavior of the group and starting the brainstorming sessions.

Time Keeper/Reporter: It is what it is…this person keeps the time and pace of the work of the group during group work sessions and reports the findings of the group during presentation time.

Recorder/Materials Manager: This person records any thoughts, ideas, questions or answers of the group during group sessions. Also responsible for taking and/or putting back any materials used during the group work.

Fact Checker: Reviews notes, uses the dictionary, thesarus, encyclopedia or other forms of reference to ensure the accuracy of presented materials.

If you have 7 groups of students…and they each have 4 students in them…you can tell them each to come up with their own question to ask the Home-stay student…(we call them Home-Schooled here) and have them present each other’s questions. Poster board works great and the kids could really write their question on one side that they asked and their interviewee’s answer to it on the other side. You can also have the kids draw a general shape of the top of a question mark. On the top squiggly part they can write their answer and on the bottom period looking part they can write the answer. Adjust the size of the ? accordingly.

I hope this info helps and keep your head high! You’ll do great!

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