Interview+Questions

Questions for interviews: (from 4/19 meeting)

1. Your name and class you’re taking.

2. Can you tell me a little about why you’re here in school, your goals?

3. In class, your teacher has asked you to write and share some of your story of your own journey to get to this point. Can you share your story/journey?

4**. In class, when writing and sharing your stories, how does it affect you in the classroom? How does writing about your journey affect your thinking about your life? How does this affect your plans for the future?**

5. How does writing about your journey affect your motivation to complete work in class and beyond?

6. How do you think teachers can best take advantage of people sharing their stories? When do you think it fails?

These are questions that I (Scott) have... I don't think we want to ask them, yet. Perhaps, we'll figure out how to answer them down the road: - How does storytelling/writing actually help you become a better reader/writer/thinking? - How do you think this type of activity will help you in future classes (when you don't share stories like this?)

5/1/09 After our discussion with Jan, we tried to isolate what we'd really like to investigate. So, for instance, what if we looked at the metacognitive loop