Student Interviews

For the 75 hour clinical we were instructed to interview a high performing student and a low performing student and record the results to nine questions. The students I interviewed were a high performing young boy and a low performing young girl in second grade. In my class of eighteen students there are eight students identified with special needs; none of the students are completely on level so I chose the highest and lowest performers.

Low Performing Student:
Do you enjoy school? Yes
What kind of students are you? Good
What do you do for fun outside of school? Play, ride bikes, play on swing set
How would your classmates describe you? Nice
Who are you friends with? what do you and your friends do together? Jasalyn, Megan, Isaiah, Breanna. "We play games."
Tell me a good memory you have about school. "It's good"
Tell me a bad memory you have about school. "Nothing"
Describe a "good" teacher or tell me about your favorite teacher you have had in the past. Mrs. Skinner (current teacher) "She is nice and she helps."
What is one thing you wish your teacher knew about you? "I try really hard."


High Performing Student:
Do you enjoy school? Yes
What kind of students are you? Good
What do you do for fun outside of school? Play football with friends
How would your classmates describe you? Nice and funny
Who are you friends with? what do you and your friends do together? Tristin, Zach, and Levi. "Play outside"
Tell me a good memory you have about school. "My first day of school"
Tell me a bad memory you have about school.  "My friend got mad at me"
Describe a "good" teacher or tell me about your favorite teacher you have had in the past. Ms. T- "She was nice"
What is one thing you wish your teacher knew about you? "That I am really nice"

 
I learned that really none of the students in my classroom are really "high performing." The High performing students I interviewed was really just the kid who was the most average. My low performing student really seems to have no idea that she is low performing. She really is just happy and smiley and seems to enjoy that her and her sister are now in the same grade. What she does not realize is that her younger sister will most likely pass her up academically. I know now that I will have to work extra hard with the entire class to help these students achieve. My teacher has a very difficult time with 8 of 18 students in her classroom identified as special needs. These students seem to never leave the classroom more then once a day for extra help. I would love to interview one other student in my clinical classroom (that was absent the day I interviewed) to see what he has to say to the questions because he is very open with me about things.