This past few days nothing has been happening. I’m waiting for my teachers in Portugal to reply to me. At this momentonely one teacher didn’t reply to me.
Maybe you are asking, “why does he need their reply?! just do what you have to do!!”. Well its not that simple. I need to do some interviews to students, teachers and the head teacher. I have prepared the interviews, with all the objectives laid out for all questions.
But, since this is a true investigation, I must submit the interviews scripts to a board of specialists. These specialists are 3 teachers in my University. They must check the scripts, and comment them so that I may correct what problems they may have.
Anyway, heres a step by step description of how it goes:
- I must observe what happens in the school and ask questions, informally, about how things work. This way I gather information so that I can know what questions I must put to people.
- I make the interviews script, and submit them to my supervisor which will help me correct them. The scripts go back and forward until they are OK.
- I submit the scripts to aboard of specialists, indicated by my supervisor. They comment my work and I make adjustments.
- I use the scripts in 2 persons that are not part of my study, so that I can see if I asked everything, if some things don’t make sense, etc.
- I make adjustments again.
- Finally I have my script validated, and I can use it with my investigation subjects.
Now, moving on to another subject, this weekend, the watch teacher was not a teacher. It was one of the girls that work in the administration. So this makes me think that being a “watch teacher” is not about being a teacher its about being someone responsible and experienced, who can coordinate things. This is actually in the same line of thought as everything else in a folk school, we are all teaching each other and learning from each other.
