Interview Questions

LaGuadia Vs MLK

LaGuadia kids
1.) How is, or how do you feel about the security in your school?
2.) Do you have Medal detectors? 
3.) Are you allowed to bring cell phones, and open bottles in your school?
5.) What are the procedures for the students in the morning time?
6.) Do you get scanned or patted down?

MLK students
7.) How do you feel about security in your school? 8.) How do you feel knowing that your schools security is so much stricter than that of Laguadia's?

Laguadia teacher or people in charge
9.) Who is in charge with the security in your school?
10.) Do all school in the area get the same set of rules for security?

Both school people!
11.) Why do you think security is so different between the two schools?


Computers in the computer lab not working!
1.) Who is in charge of the computers in the computer lab?
2.) Who is in charge of getting them fixed?
3.) Why don't they ever work?

Mr. Corillo
4.) Do you know anything about computers?
5.) Do you know what to do if a computer was to break down or catch a virus?
6.) Do you know anything about printers?
7.) How many computers work currently?

Students
8.) How often do you use the computers in the lab?
9.) What do you use them for?
10.) How often do the computer work?
11.) How often do the printer work?

Interview Questions

New Virtual Hall sweeps

1. Why are these hall sweeps being implemented now?

2. When hall sweeps were done before before did they work?

3. Who is going to be in charge of these hall sweeps?

4. When are these hall sweeps going to occur?

5. How will they set up for someone to actually do the hall sweeps?

6. Who came up with the idea?

7. What will be the punishment if students get caught doing something during these hall sweeps?

8. How many chances do students have before they are approached by the administration?

9. How will this help students stay on track?

10. What is the purpose of these hall sweeps?

Teacher depending on coffee

1. How old were you when you started drinking coffee (caffeine)

2. What happens when you don't have coffee in the morning?

3. Why are you so dependent on coffee?

4. What is you favorite type of coffee?

5. Do you consider it a bad habit? Why or why not?

6. How do you feel when you have had your coffee?

7. How do you feel in a class with a teacher who hasn't had their coffee?

8. How do you act when you know your teacher hasn't had their daily coffee?

9. How do you let your students know you haven't had your daily coffee?

10. Why coffee? Why not another type of drink (equivalent to coffee)?

Article Questions: 1 & 2

Article 1
Follow up questions from 1st draft of ESL students in LACJ

Ms. Moody

1. For how many years have you been working as an ESL teacher?
2. What is the most difficult part of your job?
3. Do ESL students behave differently than other students?

ESL students

1. What do you like the most about living in NYC?
2. How different is LACJ from your schools in your country?
3. How are the people different here and over there?
4. Have you visited your country after you came?
5. What subjects do you mostly have difficulties with?
6. Did you have an option when coming here? Do you rgret it?
7. Did NYC turn out to be how you expected it to be?

Article 2
Students can't use the microwaves in school

Students

1. Why do you bring food from outside?
2. Do you pay for school lunch? Is this why you bring food from outside?
3. What kind of food do you bring, frozen food, sandwiches, home cooked food?

Mr. Bonilla:

1. About how many students daily ask to use your microwave?
2. Do you have a problem with them using it?
3. How do you feel about students not being able to use microwaves in the 4th floor?

Ms. Nightengale

1. Why are you planning on stopping the students use of school microwaves?
2. Is it disrupting class time, allthough they use them during lunch?
3. What is another option for students who don't like school lunch and bring in food, if they can't use the microwaves?
4. Have there been complaints from administration or students about this?

Questions for Story # 1 & # 2

Topic: Santa Claus



1. when do you think kids should find out santa is not real? why?

2. Do you still believe in the idea of Santa Clause? why?

3. what is christmas like in your house?

4. when you were uounger how influential was Santa Clause in your christmas?

5. how did you find out santa clause was a lie?

6. why do you think parents continue the santa clause lie with their children?

7. How do you think christmas would be different if santa claus was not ever mentioned?

8. what was your best gift from santa claus?

9. Did finding about santa claus affect your belief in the toothfairy, easter bunny etc?

10. what steps do you think LACJ could take to bring the christmas spirit into the schools?



Topic: What Grade Has the most schools spirit?



1. what do you think school spirit is?

2. what grade do you think shows that? why?

3. why do you think the grades are so separated?

4. what can LACJ do to bring the grades together?

5. what is the best thing your grade has ever done together? why?

6. what teacher do you think has the most school spirit? why?

7. what do you think decreases the amount of school spirit? why?

8. what student from your grade do you think has the most school spirit? why?

9. How does school spirit affect the school as a whole?

10. if LACJ had more school spirit would you participate and enjoy school more? why?

Questions for Story #1

1. Should students be stress about bedbugs, like they were with H1N1?
2. Why are students taking all this issues and making it into a bigger issue?
3. Should students take into consideration this community issues?
4. Can students get affect it by this issues personally, mentally and academically, if they take it into the extremes?
5. Are bedbugs worth worrying about?
6. Are students overracting more than they should, about bedbugs and H1N1?
7. How H1N1 and bedbugs are similar in the way people react towards them?
8. How can we teach students to relax about community issues?
9. ?????????
10. ????????

IDEA #1

TOPIC: RAISING MONEY FOR EUROPE?

STORY IDEA: HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSE TO RAISE MONEY BEFORE 6 OCLOCK, IF MOST OF THE PEOPLE WITH MONEY COMES IN AFTER 6?

SOURCE: MS FRYER

VISUAL: PHOTOS ND GRAHIC SHOWING HOW THEY RAISE THEIR MONEY

SIDEBAR: HOW DOES EFFECT THEIR TRIP TO EUROPE?

IDEA #2

TOPIC: ESL KIDS VS. KIDS WHO ARE BORN IN THE US?

STORY IDEA: THE GRADES THE ESL KIDS ARE GETTING ARE REMARKABLE, BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING SO MUCH BETTER THAN AMERICAN KIDS.

SOURCES: TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PRINCIPLE

VISUAL: GRAPH TO SHOW HOW THEY ARE DOING?

SIDEBAR: WHAT CAN THE STUDENTS DO TO HELP BOOST THEIR GRADE?

IDEA #3

TOPIC: CHRISTMAS TALENT SHOW

STORY IDEA: MLK LACJ NEEDS TO HAVE A TALENT SHOW JUST HAVE A LAUGH ONCE IN A WHILE AND NOT JUST BE ABOUT ALL WORK ND STUFF

SOURCES: PRINCIPAL, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, AND HEAD OF THE BUILDING MANAGER

VISUAL: PHOTOS TO SHOW THAT WE COULD HAVE A GOOD TIME

Story Ideas

#1 
Topic- the process of recycling bottles and cans!
Story idea- this story can be about the people you meet and the process and skill of recycling bottles and cans. This relates to the school because we collect bottles and we have to recycle them now!
Sources- the people who work at western beef, the people who recycle there, the students who are going to recycle the cans and bottles.
Visual- the bottles we collect or the students recycling.
Sidebar- a chart of how much money is being raised by collecting bottles and cans.

#2
Topic- seniors wanting more privileges.
Story idea- this story can be about how seniors feel they deserve more privileges as seniors. It can be about what privileges they feel they deserve and why, and how they are going to go about getting these things to happen. 
Sources- seniors, teachers, admin
Visual- seniors in the lunch room, or seniors at the senior meetings.
Sidebar- some planed senior activities, or a senior Q&A

#3
Topic- Greece trip
Idea- this story can be about the planned greece trip! It can talk about how much needs to be raised, how long the trip is and the planned activities of the trip. Who's going and why?
Sources- ms fryer, kids planning on going
Visual- kids and ms fryer at their Greece trip meetings
Sidebar- Q&A with the people who went on the last trip with ms fryer!