Informational Interview
I interviewed Therese Serum who teaches at Lincoln Elementary School in Alexandria, Minnesota. She has been teaching for thirty-four years. I interviewed Mrs. Serum on March 16, 2018, a day where I shadowed her in her fourth grade classroom. I interviewed her because I admire her as a teacher and her experience is impressive as well. As a hopeful future elementary education teacher, this interview taught me many important pieces of information that I would have no other way of knowing if I didn’t interview Mrs. Serum. Many important topics in the education world were discussed and explored in this interview, making it extremely helpful and informative as a future educator.
Mrs. Serum was a wealth of information when
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Relationships with students help them learn the material at a deeper level, faster. Building a dependability and rapport with the students is arguably the biggest key to being a teacher and the most rewarding part. This, in fact, is what Mrs. Serum likes best about her job, and it shows in her classroom every day. It is such a joy for her to watch them grow, learn, and transform over the months that they spend in her classroom. This just reinforces that education is all about the relationships. Another piece of information that she explained was that the best teachers follow through consistently. The technique she uses to stretch the kids further and get the cream of their crop applies to all aspects of the classroom. For example, if she says that there is a certain consequence of an action, the student won’t get “off the hook” for the consequence no matter how hard they try if they did the action. In the same respect if Mrs. Serum says that she will be at one of the student’s basketball games, she will follow through and be there. This is crucial for classroom management, especially in the pivotal month of September. She says that September is the most important month