Parents can also help teachers get to know their children. Homeschooling parents can use interests to strengthen learning and provide relevance for the content. Administer an interest inventory to find out about a child's interests. Click here for an interest inventory that you may consider using with your students. Students are told that they will be interviewing each other to produce a class newspaper, magazine, Open House scrapbook, or book that people will be reading.
Students read and discuss interviews from previous years, magazines, and newspapers.
The students brainstorm questions to ask during the interviews. The students pair up and conduct their interviews. They are encouraged to take notes during their interviews so they will be able to remember the information. Each student makes the decision about what and how much to write down. The notes taken during the interviewing can include pictures, words, and phrases.