Sample Student Interview Paper

I interviewed Rachel, who is a parent at Sonshine Preschool. She said that she heard about the program through family and friends who also had children that attend, or attended there. She chose this program for her daughter because she wanted a positive, Christian environment to immerse her child in. She also wanted her daughter to be socializing and learning with a variety of peers. She loves the low teacher to student ratios, and the consistent updates on progress and lesson plans, and how there is a lot of play incorporated into the school day. She highly recommends this program to other families. What she looked for in a program was a solid Christian worldview that was taught, and also emphasized. She believes strongly that a teaching
of Christian concerning loving others, respecting those above you, and having joy is essential for the education for her child. She also wanted a low teacher to student ratio so her child would receive enough attention in class. She also wanted the school to be small, since her child gets overstimulated in a chaotic environment. She also wanted a good healthy balance between active and sitting for her child. Her favorite aspects of the program are that the teacher and the teacher’s aide are amazing with her daughter.
Her daughter has good relationships with both of her teachers, and she misses them when she is absent from school. The mother’s only dislike is that her child has been sick quite a few times since starting school, even though the class takes precaution to hand washing, and cleaning the equipment. She would like things to improve by having more field trips, and less chapels. She says that she prefers Christian teaching to be more naturally included in the daily curriculum, and she feels that the chapel sessions are very disruptive to the usual flow to her child’s
day. She travels approximately twenty to twenty five minutes to get to the school. She says it is a drive, but she feels more comfortable taking her child somewhere that she trusts. Her daughter is the only child currently enrolled in the program, and she just started this year. The teacher in her child’s room gives them monthly calendars, and weekly newsletters to further the communication in the class. She also can email her teacher to set up times to talk with the teacher about things she is concerned about for her child. The administration supervises her younger children when she goes to sign out her daughter, and her child’s teacher understands her child’s sensory processing disorder, and is flexible with the dress code for the class. She says that they have been wonderful to accommodating to her needs, and her child’s needs. According to the text, “...caring is shown in an exuberant manner with lots of enthusiastic conversation, hugging and facial animation.” (Sciarra, Lynch, Adams & Dorsey, 2016, p. 7). I feel that by talking to this parent, the administration is doing just that. She has never had any issues with the administration, they are helpful, and prompt when she calls with questions, or other communication. Her daughter’s teachers are wonderful, and she feels that her daughter is well cared for and learning a lot. She enjoys talking with the other parents before class starts, and at local parks after preschool. She sees the administrator there every time she drops her daughter off for preschool, they have always been helpful and are very easy to approach with concerns or ideas.
She feels very comfortable with talking with them. She is involved with her child’s classroom by going to special events that the teacher sets up for them to come in, and with monthly chapels and monthly circle times, and field trips as well. She loves seeing her daughter involved in the class without having to have direct input from her. She does a lot of spontaneous learning at home, and they read about five to six books a day, some go with the lessons her daughter is learning in school. She says her daughter does better with self-directed learning at home, than the limited six hours classroom time per week. Her daughter enjoys being with her teachers and her classmates. She says her daughter talks about the crafts they do in class, and also what she played with with her friends during the school day. Sometimes, the daughter will sing or song or recite a poem she learned in class. What she will remember from this program: is the awesome relationships her daughter had with her teachers. She loves that her daughter runs into the classroom and gives both her teachers a hug first thing every time she comes to
class.