Instructions
Interview a Professional in the Field
Due Week 6
END OF WEEK 6
Note: This assignment focuses on interviewing a professional whose primary responsibility is directly related to child or family development (for example, a schoolteacher or school counselor would NOT be appropriate for this interview). Also, your interviewee cannot be a family member or close friend.
(Addresses Course Objectives 1, 2, & 4) For this assignment, the student will use the previously developed and graded set of questions to be asked during an in-depth interview of a professional in the field of child and/or family development.
Interview guidelines:
- Interviews may be conducted on site (for this the student must send to the potential interviewee a respectful and professional inquiry about the possibility of an interview) or on the phone. Online asynchronous (e.g. e-mail) or synchronous (e.g. IM or Chat) interviews are not acceptable for this assignment.
The paper should:
- List each question with a summary of the professional's answers
- Include two or three paragraphs at the end describing what the student learned during the interview
- Be 5-7 pages in length
The interviewee must send a brief letter of documentation to your instructor indicating that the interview was conducted over the phone or in-person. This may be sent via e-mail directly by the interviewee from a professional e-mail account (not a hotmail, g-mail, yahoo, or similar public domain - if anyone can sign up for the account, it is not a professional email address) and not forwarded by the student.
- NOTE: This assignment will not be accepted for grading without the interviewee verification documentation.
