{"id":57,"date":"2018-12-04T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/?p=57"},"modified":"2019-05-03T04:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T04:23:30","slug":"preparing-for-our-first-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/2018\/12\/04\/preparing-for-our-first-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for our First Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;color: #808000\">BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE NEWSROOM<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We prepared for our first interview by coming up with questions for our person of interest: \u00a0our school principal, Mr. John Cortens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-81 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2018\/12\/IMG_6880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2018\/12\/IMG_6880.jpg 2773w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2018\/12\/IMG_6880-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2018\/12\/IMG_6880-768x987.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2018\/12\/IMG_6880-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/files\/2018\/12\/IMG_6880-1200x1543.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 366px) 85vw, 366px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The students divided into small groups, and were responsible for jotting down questions regarding one of the following parts of Mr. Corten&#8217;s life:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square\">\n<li>his baby years<\/li>\n<li>his childhood years<\/li>\n<li>his teaching career<\/li>\n<li>his role as a principal<\/li>\n<li>his thoughts on the new school<\/li>\n<li>his future and interests<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The kids came up with some really fascinating, original questions for Mr. Cortens.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples include:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Were you a big or small baby when you were born?<\/li>\n<li>What colour was your hair when you were a baby?<\/li>\n<li>What kinds of toys did you like playing with when you were a little kid?<\/li>\n<li>Do you have any brothers or sisters?<\/li>\n<li>When you were a teacher, what grades did you teach?<\/li>\n<li>Where did you teach?<\/li>\n<li>What do you like most about being a principal?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s your favourite thing to do when you aren&#8217;t being a principal?<\/li>\n<li>Can you tell us your favourite places to visit?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And finally, one of my all time faves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you want to do after you get <em>taller<\/em>? \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE NEWSROOM We prepared for our first interview by coming up with questions for our person of interest: \u00a0our school principal, Mr. John Cortens. The students divided into small groups, and were responsible for jotting down questions regarding one of the following parts of Mr. Corten&#8217;s life: his baby years his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/2018\/12\/04\/preparing-for-our-first-interview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for our First Interview&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/roudt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}