Interview Protocol

A. What are your experiences related to effective leadership practices within your classroom?

1. Please describe your journey that brought you to the teaching field.

2. Please explain the most important experiences you have gone through that have made you

the teacher you are today.

3. Describe what teaching means to you.

4. What does a typical day in your classroom look like, how does your day start and end?

5. Describe your best teaching day.

6. How have you developed your beliefs and values about teaching?

7. Could you please describe your classroom management practice?

8. Could you please describe your classroom environment?

B. What are your experiences regarding effective leadership training in the classroom?

9. If you could create the perfect teacher preparation program, what would it look like?

10. What kind of advice would you give a beginning teacher?

11. What has been your experience with effective teacher in-service programs?

C. What are the essential elements of effective classroom leadership training?

12. What characteristics are most important for a teacher to possess in order to be

successful in the classroom?

13. Can those characteristics be taught?

If yes, What is the best way to develop those characteristics?

If no, Why do you feel the characteristics cannot be taught?

14. If you could create the perfect teacher in-service program, what would it look like?