It was unlike any teaching interview I had ever experienced.
This paper describes a research-based teaching interview, aimed at encouraging an especially talented student, Ben, to reflect on his thinking about infinite quantities.
From ordering a young man to fix his front tooth ("Sorry, but you look like a thug") to teaching interview technique ("No! Not 'Hiya'! You've got to say 'Hello'"), Taylor tackles every obstacle on the journey out of joblessness, undeterred by the mandatory tears and rage of the participants' "narrative arc".
"I think it was a good start, because it has generated this idea to interview us, set up focus groups, talk among ourselves about how to do an activity together, but this is a gateway to something that I think should grow over time, in its complexity, length and thoroughness, that is, by being more demanding on ourselves, to improve university teaching" (Interview Teacher 2).
He and the Next Wave team use a very successful format for teaching interviewing skills, originally developed by Lisa Kozlowski, who is now at Thomas Jefferson University.
It is also more than teaching interviewing, job-search, and networking skills or guiding an individual through self-assessment and choosing a career path.
"That's a very good question" is a ploy that media coaches teach interview subjects to use; I imagine a number of people have simply picked up the phrase for their own use, through the very repetition that has Frank riled.
Interviews comprised two individual interviews with the lecturer, a teaching assistant and five focus group interviews with groups of students.
Not long after arriving, Turner told me, he went to a prestigious Bangkok elementary school to interview for a teaching position.
An account of a writer going to a remote town in northern Mexico to interview for a teaching post, the story establishes its strange air of lassitude and dread at once: "I went to Gómez Palacio during one of the worst periods of my life.
