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What are the Components of a Good Interview?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Class members develop interview questions and then one volunteer interviews a new principal (the instructor) while the entire class watches and takes notes. Participants then individually consider an interesting angle from which the...
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The Job Interview: Teacher's Notes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
One of the most difficult parts of getting a job, is the interview. Learners are each given a card with personal experience and information on it. They respond to an advertisement for a chef position at a Korean restaurant. Each person...
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Applications and Interviews

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice completing applications for jobs. They examine the do's and dont's of filling out an application. They also participate in a mock interview process.
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The Practice Interview

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students study the interview process by interviewing each other in pairs using a name game. They formulate and ask effective interview questions and practice interviewing skills. They invite a guest to their classroom or go outside the...
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The World of Work

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students practice appropriate behavior during a mock job interview. In this interview skills instructional activity, students identify a career using the given websites. Students answer questions in preparation for the job interview and...
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Famous First Graders Unit

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Class members become reporters, photographers, and movie producers to interview each other as they become "Famous First Graders." Learners work as a team to interview the famous person and then produce a short movie. They create...
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The Interview of a Lifetime

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the process of creating an interview by role playing as a reporter who has the opportunity to interview one of the survivors of the Titanic disaster. They ask only five questions in this interview of a lifetime therefore...
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Interview Exclusive! Paris-Match interroge Audrey Tatou, vedette du film, Le fableux destin d'Am¿¿lie Poulain

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students role play an interview. After researching Audrey Tautou and the movie Amelie, pairs of students take turns interviewing each other. One plays the role of a journalist and the other plays the role of an actress. During the...
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Interview

For Teachers K
Students think of questions to ask the student being interviewed. The students will raise their hands when they have a question. The interviewee will answer questions appropriately.
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A Question, Mr. Lincoln!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss Abraham Lincoln. In this social science lesson, students describe key events in Lincoln's life. Students practice using interviewing skills to gather information pretending to be Lincoln.
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Oral Interviews on Traditions and Celebrations

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners practice speaking in a target language through the use of oral interview techniques. They engage in conversations with peers using a certain theme of celebration and tradition. Students plan questions that they use in the...
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Arkansas Photographs as Research Tools

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Middle and high schoolers look at historical photos and written materials, and they develop questions which they use to interview an elder in their community. Learners are divided into groups and given sets of historical family photos...
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Nonprofit Organizations in Our Community: Interviewing Representatives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students interview representatives from nonprofit organizations. In this philanthropy instructional activity, students prepare questions for a representative from a nonprofit organization. After conducting the interview, they are to...
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It's Off to Work We Go

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
  Students reenact what finding a job was like in the 1900's and model their actions after Milton Hershey.  In this history lesson, students create business cards, and conduct mock interviews for jobs that would have been...
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Nomination Process

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
"I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States..." Scholars investigate the nomination process of Supreme Court justices when assuming office. Through examination of primary and secondary...
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The Tibet Question

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a simulation, where they interview members of the Tibetan groups, the Chinese and US government officials, representatives of human rights organizations and Chinese scholars. Each student will be assigned to one...
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Living History: Documenting Our Senior Citizens Lives

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils investigate stereotypes by researching the elderly.  In this senior citizen lesson, students interview elders in a rest home and video tape their experience. Pupils present their videos to their interview subjects after and...
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Papa Interviews

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Working in teams of two, young scholars conduct interviews by playing the role of a reporter and Hemingway. They research their parts, write the interviews, and perform them for the rest of the class.
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Interviewing for a Job

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars role-play an interview setting. They explore how to respond and ask their own questions in an interview.
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Getting and Keeping a Job for Teens

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Your 16 or 17-year-old students really want to get a job. Show them how to find a job opening, choose a job, and pick up a job application. They'll create a list of where to find job opening information, fill out a job application, and...
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Conflict Between Democratic and Authoritarian Rule in Haiti

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders examine the background of democratic and authoritative rule in Haiti. In pairs they conduct a simulated interview, reporting for a news station about the political, personal, and economical life in Haiti. They conduct...
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Press Conference on Hurricane Georges

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students role play a press conference on Hurricane Georges by acting as interviewers from the press. They research the impact of the hurricane in order base their questions on pertinent information. They present the press conference for...
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Little Owl Press Report/Newspaper and Newscast Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Discover journalistic techniques by having learners prepare and write their own class newspaper. They discuss the five W's of investigative journalism and conduct interviews with school figures. They utilize video technology, podcast...
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Life Science: DNA Whodunit?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students role play an honorary detective to assist in solving a crime committed. They investigate by a bank robbery and interview eyewitnesses using their Crime Investigation Notebook and clues from an eyewitness account from the...