Job Interviews

From Dorothy Rucker, a language arts and speech teacher at Peabody-Burns High in Peabody, Kansas:

"I arrange mock interviews with business owners in our community for my students. I provide the business people with a copy of possible interview questions, the evaluation forms, and a stamped self-addressed envelope in which to return the evaluations. The students travel to the businesses by bus during the school day. Several students have found actual jobs in the community from these interviews and others learned about busineses they didn't realizze existed. Positive comments about the students and the interviews from the business people have also furthered a more positive relationship between the school and the community."