4. Teacher interview

Notes to interviewer

1. Each question in the interview should be asked so that the teacher has a chance to expand or explain their answer.

2. Wait for the teacher’s responses without influencing the answer.

3. Even though you will ask to tape record the interview, enter the responses as you hear them (i.e. tick the appropriate response choice) and record a few words that will help you elaborate or clarify an answer.

4. Expand or clarify answers from the tape recorder so that someone else can interpret them.

5. You will be asking these questions with reference to one class. If the teacher has taught the programme to more than one class, ask for reference to be made primarily to the latest class taught.

Teacher interview

A) Background information

1. Date of interview

Day
Month
Year

2. School/District _________________________________________________________________

3. Sex (of teacher)

Male
Female

4. Sex (of students)

Male
Female
Mixed

5. Number of hours in programme

hours

6. How many years have you been teaching?

a) in total:
b) this grade level/age:
c) area/subject:

7. a) Do you have any training in teaching sexuality or AIDS, other than the teacher workshop you attended?

Yes
No

b) If yes, specify what the training was:________________________________________________

B) Teacher attitudes about the programme

8. a) Would you want to teach this programme on HIV/AIDS/STD again?

Yes
No
Only in part

b) If not the whole programme, which parts would you want to teach? [Tick one or more boxes, as appropriate]

Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4

9. Rate the parts of the programme that you were most and least comfortable with

	Most	Least		Most	Least
The activities in unit 1:			The peer leader help:
The activities in unit 2:			Parent involvement:
The activities in unit 3:			Assertiveness skills:
The activities in unit 4:			Condom skills:

Other: __________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

C) The students

10. What was the age range of students in your class?

to

11. Generally, how was the reading level of the activities for most of your students?

Too high
Alright
Too low

12. How would you describe the students’ overall involvement in the programme’s activities?

High
Moderate
Too low

D) The parents

13. a) Did you receive any positive comments from the parents about the programme?

Yes
No

b) If yes, how many? ______________________________________________________________

c) If yes, give an example: __________________________________________________________

14. How did you involve parents? [Tick one or more boxes, as appropriate]

parent meeting		letter to parents
student activities at home		leaflet
parent/student interview		drama, exhibition
other

E) The peer leaders

15. Did you use peer leaders to help you with the programme?

Yes
No

16. How much time did you spend training the peer leaders?

hours

17. How effective were the peer leaders in the programme?

Very effective
Moderately effective
Not effective

18. a) Would you recommend any changes to the peer leader part of the programme?

Yes
No

b) If yes, what changes? ___________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

19. To what extent did the peer leaders help the students?

Greatly
Somewhat
Little
Not at all

20. How did the peer leaders help in classroom management? _____________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

F) Teacher training

21. a) How do you feel about the teacher training programme now that you have finished the programme?

Very satisfied
Satisfied
Dissatisfied
Very dissatisfied

b) If dissatisfied, why? _____________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

22. Was the training long enough?

Too short
Alright
Too long

23. How well did the training prepare you for teaching the programme?

Very well
Quite well
Not well enough
Did not need the training

24. Do you have anything to add about the teacher training? _______________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

G) Evaluation of students

25. a) Did you use the evaluation materials to give the students a grade or mark?

Yes
No

b) If yes, which ones? [Tick one or more boxes, as appropriate]

true-false questions
short answer questions
skill questions
life situation questions

26. a) Are there changes you would like to make to the evaluation questions?

Yes
No

b) If yes, what changes? ________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________

H) Teaching methods

27. Were you able to make copies of the activity sheets for each student?

Yes
No

28. Did you write the activities on the blackboard?

All
Most
Some
None

29. Did you read the activities to the students?

All
Most
Some
None

30. Did you use small groups for the activities?

Yes
No

31. a) Did you have trouble carrying out the activities?

Yes
Some
No

b) If yes, please tell us what the difficulties were: __________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

32. Do you have any recommendations that would make it easier for you to use the activities?
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

I) Sensitive issues

33. a) Did sensitive issues come up while teaching the programme?

Yes
No

b) If yes, what were they? __________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

c) Did the teacher’s guide help you to deal with these issues?

Yes
No

d) If no, what other help would you like to see in the guide about sensitive issues? _____________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

J) Personal changes/issues

34. Did the programme affect you in any way?

Yes
No
Don’t know

If yes, in what way? _______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________

35. Will you change anything about the way you teach as result of the programme?

Yes
No
Don’t know

If yes, what will you change? ________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________