Critical Incident

I also enjoyed the critical incident part of last weekend’s class. After listening to the situations each group came up with, I realized that they were all probably real. Somebody encountered those problems and had to deal with them. There are so many situations that you can’t anticipate or prepare for. I liked Sara’s description in her posting of “canned answers”. Anyone can give a good interview if you know what the questions are going to be. You can prepare. It is the answers to the questions that you aren’t prepared for that are important. I have had experience as an interviewer (though not in education). The people I interviewed who could respond thoughtfully to a question that started “What would you do in this situation: …” were the most successful people I worked with. I noticed that with the critical incident we used in class, no one seemed 100% happy with any of the 3 responses we had to choose from…so many decisions are not black and white.