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The purpose of these questions is to learn how the teacher has chosen to interview and utilize some of the educational psychology principles we have discussed throughout the course. How does this contribute to this teacher's success and intentional teaching practices?

Some possible suggestions for questions that might ask the interviewee are:

• Do you teach differently than you did when you began teaching? How so? And why?

• Do you ever read research studies in professional journals? If so, how does this change the way you teach?

• How has the study of educational research affected your teaching?

• What kinds of conclusions have you reached through informal research (your day-to-day observations of your students)?

• What style of teaching do you prefer? Direct Instruction? Constructivist learning? A mix of both?

• How do you differentiate instruction for diverse learners?

• How do you manage classroom discipline?

- Were you actively listening and creating authentic, meaningful, shared conversations as an educator? Were children encouraged to lead conversations?

- Was there a sufficient opportunity for children to use their imagination and creativity to investigate, hypothesize, and express themselves? If not, was the activity too restrictive? If so, how could the activity be modified in the future to encourage imagining?