Early Childhood Teacher Interview Essay
Interview with two Early Childhood teachers
I interviewed two Early Childhood teachers, both at different, yet similar stages of their teacher careers. I asked the teacher’s fourteen questions, which helped me, determine what problems, concerns, and issues they are currently facing, and how they are coping with these issues.
The teachers that I interviewed have been teaching at their center for two years. One is a head teacher in a preschool classroom and the other is also a head teacher, but in a toddler classroom. I am going to call the preschool teacher P-Teacher and the toddler teacher T-Teacher. P-Teacher has always been surrounded by children younger then her, she is the oldest child in her family, a younger sister and a younger bother. Something I liked that she said was, “Teach” my little sister big girl …show more content…
P-Teacher said, “The moment where I wanted to become a teacher was during my senior year in high school during a physiology class. We were studying children's development. During that class I brought my little cousin Nick age 3 at the time to be observed by the other students. Seeing him feel safe, happy, and excited to go to "big boy school" (as he called it) was an awesome feeling. I think because of my cousin being so young I started to really focus on the younger age groups.” T-Teacher said that around the age of fourteen she loved working with children and anything to do with children. She also taught catechism classes which really re-confirmed her love for teaching.
Another question I asked them was: What are the qualities of a teacher? P-Teacher and T-Teacher answer this question pretty similarly by saying it is important to be a born nurturer, have a passion for teaching and children, dedicated, a great communicator, patient and one of my favorites was loving. I felt that these qualities and so many more are great to have as a teacher and a
I interviewed two Early Childhood teachers, both at different, yet similar stages of their teacher careers. I asked the teacher’s fourteen questions, which helped me, determine what problems, concerns, and issues they are currently facing, and how they are coping with these issues.
The teachers that I interviewed have been teaching at their center for two years. One is a head teacher in a preschool classroom and the other is also a head teacher, but in a toddler classroom. I am going to call the preschool teacher P-Teacher and the toddler teacher T-Teacher. P-Teacher has always been surrounded by children younger then her, she is the oldest child in her family, a younger sister and a younger bother. Something I liked that she said was, “Teach” my little sister big girl …show more content…
P-Teacher said, “The moment where I wanted to become a teacher was during my senior year in high school during a physiology class. We were studying children's development. During that class I brought my little cousin Nick age 3 at the time to be observed by the other students. Seeing him feel safe, happy, and excited to go to "big boy school" (as he called it) was an awesome feeling. I think because of my cousin being so young I started to really focus on the younger age groups.” T-Teacher said that around the age of fourteen she loved working with children and anything to do with children. She also taught catechism classes which really re-confirmed her love for teaching.
Another question I asked them was: What are the qualities of a teacher? P-Teacher and T-Teacher answer this question pretty similarly by saying it is important to be a born nurturer, have a passion for teaching and children, dedicated, a great communicator, patient and one of my favorites was loving. I felt that these qualities and so many more are great to have as a teacher and a