Teacher/Faculty Interviews
Instrument 1: LACTE Faculty Interview/Focus
Group Questions
Project: Los Angeles Collaborative for Teacher
Excellence (LACTE)
California State University, Dominquez Hills
Funding Source: NSF: Collaboratives for Excellence
in Teacher Preparation (DUE)
Purpose: To assess the impact of the LACTE program
Administered To: Participating faculty
Topics Covered:
- Impact on Outcomes: content, instructional methods,
materials
- Implementation Activities: awareness, collaboration,
recruitment, support
- Institutional Context: family incentives,
resources
- Lesson/Curriculum Plan: piloting, revision
- Mentoring & Support: peers
- Project Evaluation: areas for program improvement,
collaboration, effectiveness, fidelity to project,
objectives
- Self-Assessment (Teacher/Faculty): awareness,
implementation activities
- Background Characteristics & Activites
(Teacher/Faculty): project involvement
Format/Length: 19 open-ended questions
LACTE Faculty Interview/Focus Group Questions
- Describe your involvement in LACTE.
- How did you hear about LACTE?
- How did you become involved in LACTE?
- How well publicized is LACTE on your campus?
- Are the goals/objectives of LACTE clear to you?
- Describe the faculty reception of LACTE on your campus.
- What type of faculty member is involved in LACTE? What
type of faculty member will use cooperative learning?
- Is it difficult to recruit junior faculty who are concerned
about tenure issues?
- How involved have faculty in the College of Education
been in LACTE? What kinds of opportunities are there in
LACTE for interaction among math and science faculty and
College of Education faculty?
- How has the recruitment of minority math and science faculty
proceeded?
- How effective has LACTE been in enlisting administrative
support on your campus?
- Tell me about LACTE student recruitment and specifically
minority student recruitment.
- Have students on your campus been involved in internships
or other experiential activities?
- Have elementary and secondary teachers been brought into
LACTE?
- What has taken place through LACTE in terms of the revision
of courses? Have any of you had new courses approved or
do you have courses in the process of approval? If so, how
have they changed? Have any courses been piloted with LA
Pass students?
- What kinds of interaction have taken place among faculty
at your campus and the community college you have been paired
with?
- How well informed are you with what is taking place at
other LACTE campuses in terms of student recruitment, curriculum
development, and dissemination efforts?
- Reflecting upon the first year, what did not get accomplished
that should have?
- What would you like to see in Year Two?
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