1. How do you define “exceptional?”  What do you see as “exceptional” in your practice?

2. What apprehensions do you have regarding students with disabilities in your classroom?

3. How does educating students with disabilities in your classroom fit with your commitment to the belief that all students can learn?

4. What barriers do you see to inclusion of students with disabilities in school settings?

5. What is your reaction to the disproportionate placement of students of certain ethnic or family backgrounds in comparison to the population as a whole?

6. What is your opinion of IQ and Intelligence Testing?  How should it impact programming decisions for students?

7. Impoverishment and its long-term impact can have lasting effects. How do you see this impacting your classroom and instruction?

8. What challenges do you see in working in a high poverty school?  How will you maintain high academic expectations?

9. What is meant by the classroom feel?

10. Why is it important to have a safe and caring classroom?

11. What changes in schools have you seen to address physical or cultural safety?

12. Why are these so important?

13. Long term, which has the greatest impact –physical or cultural bullying?

14. What ideas do you have to address bullying in the schools?

15. What is meant by a causal pattern to a student dropping out?

16. The focus of mainstreaming special needs students into regular education classrooms has major implications for you as a future teacher. How can you prepare now to serve a variety of student needs in your future classroom?

17. The concept of gifted students dropping out of school may seem foreign to you, with such an emphasis placed on the drop-out rates for at risk students. How can you ensure that your future gifted students will have their needs met in your future classroom?

18. When you consider the difference in vocabularies of the various SES groups of your future students, what strategies or plans could you implement in your future classroom to boost those vocabularies for your lower SES students?

19. The drop-out rates for at risk students could shrink if teachers and schools could implement change in school counseling and meal services for these students. What changes have you observed that have been effective at creating this change and what other types of changes would teachers like you have the power to implement?

20. Cyber-bullying is a rising concern in our current school culture. What rights and responsibilities do schools and/or teachers have to help combat this use of social media for bullying purposes?