Name: Dylan
Stream:35 Class:123
Name of host: Christine Betts Relationship to you: Mother
Location: Laity View Elementary
The Interview:
1. What is your job title?: Elementary ELL Teacher.
2. What is your job description?: Teaching English, Cultural Awareness, and family support to k-7 ELL students.
3. What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job?: Teach English, academic support, collaborations with classroom teachers.
4. What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas?:
a) training? Various practicums, professional development.
b) education? Bachelor of Arts, PDP, Master of Education, TESOL
c) experience? Volunteered in classrooms, community volunteer, 20+ years of teaching.
d) Skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Openness, flexibility, patience, kindness, organization.
5. What are some of the things you like about the job?: Loves working directly with students and families and protecting equity.
6. What are some of the things you dislike about the job?: Volumes of paperwork, teacher shortages resulting in being pulled to cover and ELLs losing time.
7. How do you anticipate this job changing over the next 5 years or so?: Needs of families continue to increase.
Student reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (Be specific):
a) I think I would fit this job because I have good academic skills.
b) I have a lot of patience. This is very useful when working with children, that don’t always listen.
c) I already have experience with younger children from soccer refereeing.
2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (Be specific):
a) I dislike spending time in loud environments, and a school is one of the loudest environments you can probably get into.
b) I enjoy teaching people, but only when they are doing their part by trying to understand and learn. Today I encountered many children who had no interest in learning.
c) I prefer having my own personal schedule that I could change if needed. I feel that in a school everything is on a tight schedule, which would probably be quite stressful.
3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?: I don’t think so. I think I would be too constantly stressed and wouldn’t be able to stand this kind of environment. Perhaps a secondary school, or maybe even a middle school, but not elementary.
4. Explain the value of TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education?, travel?, work?).: I think that the value is that we (grade 9’s) get to learn about organization, time management, flexibility, and all the different parts that go into having a job.
