Interview Techniques – Finding Out About People – Year 11

As part of my author-in-residence at Keilor Downs College, I’ve been sharing my experiences as a journalist with the Year 11 VM Literacy classes.

Their current curriculum involves interviewing someone and creating a post about them, so we chatted about interview techniques and how to find out interesting information from the person you’re interviewing.

We talked about asking open-ended and follow up questions, and asking the easy questions first to make the subject of the interview feel comfortable. Then you can ask the harder questions. The answers to these are often the most interesting … and the ones that blog posts and articles are created from.

Students have also been researching the lives of a famous person of interest to them and we discussed what questions they might ask if they met someone famous.

Creative Learning Partnerships – a State Government Initiative