Interview With Teachers

There are many different styles of teaching, and every teacher is different from one another in some way. However, after conducting interviews with parents, it is clear that there are numerous basic characteristics that all teachers should possess in order to best work with each of their students and the students’ families. The first interview I conducted was with my father’s coworker, Dave Lariviere. Mr. Lariviere has a family that is extremely similar to my own. All of his family members are Caucasian, and he is happily married with three children, which is exactly like my family. While two of his children are teenagers, Mr. Lariviere’s youngest son, Griffin, is six years old. During the interview, we spent the majority of the time …show more content…
I interviewed Victoria Saccoccio, who is a single mother of her daughter, Amalie, who is seven years old. I babysat Amalie for Victoria for several years and decided to interview her because while they’re family structure is different than mine, Amalie is very intelligent and skipped a grade level. Amalie attends Bolton Center School and despite skipping a grade, she is still testing above her current grade level. The teacher has an open-door policy so that as long as parents email to notify her that they would like to come in, they are allowed to come volunteer. Many parents also joined the Parent Teacher Association to be involved in what happens at the school. In spite of this, Victoria feels that her daughter’s teacher does not take an interest in all of her students. Amalie has come home every week telling Victoria that she is bored in school. The teacher only focuses on the struggling students, and therefore does not interact with or challenge the students who understand the curriculum. Victoria has attempted to address the issue with the teacher, and when that did not work she had a meeting with the Vice Principal, who was not helpful, but instead told Victoria that it was early in the year and she shouldn’t worry. This led to a discussion about the importance of a working relationship between teachers and families so that …show more content…
According to Gordon and Williams-Browne (2012), “Constructivism is a theory of learning that states that individuals learn through adaptation. What they adapt to is directly influenced by the people, materials, and situations with which they come into contact” (p. 106). Amalie is not learning anything new in her classroom and therefore cannot build on her preexisting knowledge. Constructivism is not a teacher-centered program of learning however, some basic instruction is necessary for children to learn about a topic and create a personal meaning from it, which is known as the transactional model (Gordon and Williams-Browne, 2012, p.106). Amalie is not receiving any basic instruction that is new from information she already knows, and the teacher hardly interacts with her, which means that she is not gaining academic knowledge at school currently. This ties into the importance of maturation theory. “Maturation theory holds that much growth is genetically determined from conception” (Gordon and Williams-Browne, 2012, p.106). Development in general as well as the development of learning occurs in stages. At a certain age, a child may be unable to grasp certain concepts, then suddenly with time they become able to understand ideas that they at first could not. Amalie may have individual variations, in that she is ready for new information that

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