The Interview Assignment

1. What is your full name?
Yanick Ceus

2. Where are you from (city, state, country)?
Haiti Port’-Auprince

3. Why did you choose your professional field?
I like to work with the children because I like to see them grow, also to provide a great part of the kids’ education growth.

4. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?
When I first came, I work with ESL child (ESL child means to be a personal tutor to children), realize the progress the kid did at the end of the year. By doing that job, it motivate me to be a teacher.

5. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular school?
I choose this job because after I finish being an ESL tutor, I notice that there was an open house. I went and fill out the application offered for the position. I also took the job because it is near my home and is closer to travel. Not much traffic and delays.

6. How long have you worked here?
I’ve work here 11 years. 5 or 6 years before, I was teaching in French.

7. What is your job title?
My job title here is to teach Pre kindergarteners (Pre K). Also I have the capacity to teach from Pre K to 6 graders.

8. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
Some of the challenges I have faced are mostly on children who are in low and learning level, to make them work in equal manner having different level.

9. What is the best part of your job?
At the end of the year, the kid’s progress made me really feel really happy because it shows that the kids have learned, it made me very impress socially, emotionally and educationally.

10. What is something you would like to change about your job?
If I could change something in my work, I will probably put some of the kids that are in the same level but with better behavior because there is lees stress and the could learn a lot of new things in a period of time. Also, they are brighter.

11. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?
I did work on a different place before for a little while. I work as a Parent Professional, Assistant teacher on District 22, 17, 16 (Brooklyn). After, I got my bachelor and masters; I began to work as a Substitute teacher in PS 52 and PS 162 (PS= Public School).

12. What do you see as your future with this school?
I see my future maybe as an ascended teacher, to teach first grade until I retire. However, I prefer to work with the lower grades Pre K and Pre K 2.

13. How has having an intern helped your students?
Having an intern has made a great impact on my class because a second hand is always a great thing. My intern is a very helpful person, specially working in small groups, he has very good experience with the children and very dedicated to care and safety, he is a major influence of motivation to the kids to stay focus and to complete and stay on task.

14. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) getting ready for college?
The advises that I will give to teenage interns that are preparing for college are:
• Think positive and get a lot of motivation
• Don’t give up and keep trying hard
• Be focus and stay on task to succeed
• Try your best to do good work
• Don’t listen to other people bad talk; stay on your track and also out of trouble

15. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) preparing to find a career in the real world?
Some advice that I will give to interns preparing to work in the outside world are:
• Be ready to be flexible
• Be ready to be cooperative with peers
• Avoid conflict
• People have different personality, don’t take any thing personal, try to solve the problem with a smooth conversation not violence
• Take your job seriously