The interview questions are structured to allow the participant’s interview to evolve naturally (Patton, 2015). The semi-structured questions allow the participant to direct the conversation and provide rich data on their experience (Moustakas, 1994). During the interview, pre-service course instructors will be introduced to the Dr. Geneva Gay’s (2002) five essential elements of culturally responsive teaching. The participants will be asked about their knowledge of the five essential elements of culturally responsive teaching and how they can relate their instructional approaches to this theory.
Standardized Open-Ended Interview Questions
- Describe your current role within your institution.
- What are your perceptions and experiences in using culturally responsive teaching?
- Here is a conceptual framework of Dr. Geneva Gay’s Culturally Responsive Theory.identify which of the six tenets you are familiar with and describe your understanding of them.
- What are your perceptions and experiences in using culturally responsive teaching for diverse settings?
- How does your educational program help to aide teacher candidates during their first year of teaching?
- How do you prepare your teacher candidates to empower their students in diverse settings?
- How do you prepare your teacher candidates to validate the cultural differences of their students?
- How do you prepare teacher candidates to use comprehensive teaching approaches in diverse settings? According to Dr. Geneva Gay, this can be described as a teaching approach that develops a student’s intellectual, social, emotional and political learning.
- How do you prepare teacher candidates to use multi-dimensional curriculum content in a diverse classroom setting? This can be described as a way to encompass curriculum content, strong student-teacher relationships, classroom climate and innovative instructional techniques to meet the needs of diverse learners within a classroom.
How do you prepare teacher candidates to allow their students in diverse settings an opportunity to learn in an emancipatory manner? This can be described as allowing
