Alyssa Lake

Senior Portfolio
14 April 2016
Interview In Considered Career
Alyssa: What is your favorite part of your job?
Mrs. V: Probably working with my kids. Also seeing them come in relatively clueless as
freshmen and seeing them when they graduate and come back.
Mr. Price: I do like seeing them after about ten years, and seeing how their lives ended up
working out.
Alyssa: Alright, next question. Whats your least favorite part of your job?
Mr. Price: Probably the way that the second you make a mistake; your students are all over it.
But they miss all the things you did do right. They might miss all the times you went out of your
way to help them succeed, but if you forget to put one thing on school loop its like the
apocalypse.
Mrs. V: Mine within the last four or five years, would be overbearing parents. They are pretty
few and far between at this school. I wish that we listened to you guys when you said this is
what I should be learning in High School. Kids are not prepared for real life, because all
theyve learned is college prep. In theory parents should be teaching that, but theyre not. So my
least favorite part of my job would be the confining structure of what we are required to teach.
Alyssa: What level of education was required to prepare you for your career?
Mrs. V: You need a bachelors degree and a teaching credential, which is another year.

Mr. Price: And now a day you have to do BTSA, which is Beginning Teachers Support
Assessment. That means you are partnered with a mentor, and you are given tasks which you are
required to complete. The mentor is paid for this program but you are not.
Mrs. V: Then you have to pass an exam for whichever subject you plan on teaching. For
Elementary school teachers its all subjects, since theyre required to teach all subjects.
Alyssa: What are your weekly responsibilities as a teacher?
Mr. Price: Right now we are all on these WASK committees, so we have to gather evidence, and
write these reports for WASK. We all have to go to a certain number of Sporting Events or
Dances, or Re-Enrollment Night. Im also on the Safety Committee which means we have to talk
about the Drills were going to have on campus, and coordinate things with the police and stuff
like that. There also the Buckingham Leadership Committee.
Mrs. V: And these duties you dont get paid for, they are just part of the expectation and are
built into your salary.