Questions for prospective instructors

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Please discuss your level of confidence in mentoring an inquiry project that is far afield from your discipline?

Please discuss your confidence in taking charge of a small group of middle/high school students and leading them alone in the forest for several hours?

What excites you most about working with the Sky School / What was your motivation for applying to be a Sky School Instructor?

What do you believe would be the greatest challenge for you working at the Sky School?

What ideas do you have for inquiry projects that would be achievable on Mount Lemmon in a 2 day window?

How would you handle a situation where you had a teacher/chaperone from the visiting school that was generally not supporting your work with the students (e.g. being inattentive to behaviors or disruptive themselves)?

Tell us about a time something went wrong in the field. How did you recover from it?