Questions For Those Participants Still Involved In Teaching

1. How do you define success in teaching and do you believe GVSU prepared you for success in the classroom?
2. What do you view as the biggest challenges to your career?
3. What methods have you adopted to deal with the stresses of a challenging career?
4. How are you motivated to best serve your students?
5. What changes, if any, have occurred in the strategies and methods you use in your classroom?
6. What types of evaluations, both informal and formal, are used to assess your classroom teaching and how are these evaluations used to better your teaching?
7. What types of mentoring were provided for you and how would you characterize the results of the mentoring that was provided for you?
8. Have you pursued continuing education, either in the form of a graduate program or professional development and how has this education influenced your success in the classroom?
9. “Pearls of Wisdom” question: What would you tell current students to make sure they know before they start teaching? In other words, what did you wish you knew before you left GVSU to start your career?
10. Was there information that you would like to add about your teaching career that I did not cover in the questions?

Questions For Those Participants Who Left Teaching

1. How do you define success in your current job and how did GVSU help prepare you for success?

2. How has your degree helped in your career? In other words, what skills and knowledge from your degree have you applied to what you do now?
3. What factors led to your leaving your original teaching position?
4. How might the History Department and the University improve upon advising and career counseling?
5. What types of evaluations, both informal and formal, were used to assess your classroom teaching and how were these evaluations used to better your teaching?
6. “Pearls of Wisdom” question: What would you tell current students before they start their careers, whether they decide to go into teaching or not? In other words, what do you wish you knew before you left GVSU?
7. What information would you like to add that was not part of the questions asked today?