Yet Another Interview

hannikan

I got a call today for an interview tomorrow morning! I have a sinus infection (not contagious) so I don't feel great. Actually I feel like crap but I feel like I can't let the opportunity go by. I found out it will be a 30 min interview with a panel and that I will need to role play a 5 min warm up on the Civil Rights Movement pretending that the panel are the students. Any advice from those who have done role play in teacher interviews? I've never done that before but I do have lots of stuff on the Civil Rights Movement. Oh and all I will have is a white board, no technology.

Mrs.BoomBoom

Congratulations!  Just do your thing and let the chips fall.  Really try to get them involved if you can...all that multiple intelligences stuff.  Since it's supposed to be a warm-up, think about what you can do that's really impactful...slips of paper that they each play a particular person (white middle class housewife, white working class man, black male doctor, white male lawyer, black female maid) and they're all hungry so they go into a place to eat.  Then you pull out something nice for the whites and saltine crackers for the blacks. and have them fishbowl their reactions????  I'm just shooting from the hip here (but before I'd start civil rights, I'd feel like I'd need to raise some emotional reactions with my students and transport them in part to that time and mentality)

hannikan

Yeah, with only 5 mins I think I might want to not tell them what the situation is and get their gut reactions to being discriminated against. Someone suggested the lunch counters and I think I might do that. Have the students come in and once they sit down tell half of them they have to move because this counter is for whites only. Then ask them what they think happened, how they felt/what they would have done in response and then explain what we were role playing and why it's significant. That way I can set up the lesson that would happen if it was a real classroom day.

kouiii

GL with tomorrow's interview! I hope you'll feel better soon too.