Teachers and Internship Facilitator Questions:
Possible questions to ask early in the field experience:
1. Do you have any questions about what is expected of you?
2. How are you developing relations with other teacher candidates, school personal and students?
3. What have you learned about the culture of the school?
4. Do you have any questions or concerns about your working relationships?
Possible questions to ask later in field experience:
1. What have you learned from your observations in the school?
2. Have challenges occurred during teaching that you did not expect? What were they? What
helped you? What else might you have done?
3. Which teaching strategies have you tried? What did you learn? What might you try in the
future?
4. How has your instruction accommodated diversity?
5. What have you learned about teaching responsibilities beyond instruction?
6. How have you promoted a positive classroom atmosphere?
7. What classroom management techniques work? What doesn’t?
8. How does assessment influence your work? Give examples.
Possible questions to ask near the end of the experience:
1. Which areas of teaching do you feel confident in and which area would you like to focus on in
the limited time left?
2. Have you retaught any material? Why? How did the lesson change? Why?
3. How have you assisted students in the enjoyment of learning?
4. How has this experience influenced your philosophy of education