Exploring in-depth

Day 6, 4 April 2011
As planned, I conducted an individual interview today with one of my colleague who is teaching the same course in a similar setting. I wanted to explore how my colleague addresses the challenges of teaching in difficult circumstances. We met for the interview in one of the full-time cooperative teacher’s office at 11.00 am. My fellow colleague requested that we record the interview in this particular room as she spends the time between classes in this room only. The participant teacher signed the consent form and the interview lasted for around 50 minutes. The teacher was slightly hesitant when I started talking to her. It took her like 15 minutes to relax a bit and talk more openly about her classroom practices particularly related to feedback and monitoring of students’ on-task behavior. It went on smoothly from there onwards. Finished with the first interview, now I’ll go take my last lesson for today and then I’m on to the next task…something I don’t really enjoy doing…transcription!