Our experience in interviewing.

Interview and observation are also an important element in our course where we are required to observe and evaluate on the children's development and the center's planning and organization. This is also an opportunity for students to take a look on how the planning and organization looks like and able to to evaluate.

Interview in Klang.

We are currently in the fourth semester and taking the subject Planning and Organising Early Childhood Care and Educational Settings. There is an assignment which we are required to complete an interview with the principal of a center or kindergarten. So, we decided to visit a kindergarten and a childcare centre in Klang. Before we went for the interview, we had prepared questions for the principal to answer since our assignment require us to understand how the planning works and the questions will lead us to the answers. We called the principal and made an appointment with her. For those who are new to the course, it’s important to call and sometimes there are centers and kindergarten that doesn’t allow students to enter. The centre is located in Bandar Botanic, Klang. It’s very wide and big and it’s not normal to us because their centre consists of 2 corner houses, just beside each other) There are 3 directors who graduated from Taiwan and they have over 10 years of experience in this field. We are very surprise because they graduated from Taiwan. They emphasis on integrate thematic approach and makes the children enjoys learning because there are different theme each week for children to learn, explore as well as hands-on experiences. We must always remembered that children learn best when they have hands-on experiences because they gained new knowledge on what they have explore. It's just like we're doing an experiment, we always come up with a solution to solve the problem and there is where we learned new things. It's just same for the children. Apart from that, we were so surprise while talking to the principal! Haha… She was very welcoming, although she was busy with her work, but, she still lend us some time and the way she talk were soft, gentle and friendly. We are very thankful to her. She even asked us to work in her center and we were quite shocked about it. We would like to, but, it was to far for us. At the end, there was time she had to go, but she still tried to continue with us even she was busy that time and she always relate on her experience and knowledge. This is good because we get to know and learn more things about the situations just like lecturer sharing their experiences. Somehow, we think that it’s hard to find another principal as good as her and it’s a good place for us to experience and give our thoughts on their center ☺ .