Interview

Tell me about yourself

• recent graduate from brown

• double majored in classics and history with concentration in the ancient world

• intern researcher

• teacher aide

• peer tutor

• pursuing master’s degree

Can you please tell me why you want to work with us?

• want a job in history

• interested in working for multiple museums

• museums have classical exhibits

• near Rhode island

Can you talk more about your background in historical academics?

• degrees in classics and history

• concentrated in ancient greece and rome

• open curriculum let me take classes outside my concentration

• took classes in East Asian studies and also took US history classes

Do you have prior experience in teaching history?

• peer tutor in classics and histoy

  • tutored Latin, ancient greece, and ancient rome

  • 6 sessions a month in small groups

• teacher aide

  • mediterreanean culture wars: archaic Greek history for Professor Graham Oliver

  • Racial Capitalism and US Liberal Empire for Professor Naoko Shibusawa

    • American history course

In your cover letter, you said that you were a teacher aide in a university-level course. How did that experience impact your work?

• shadowed two of my professors

  • prepared lesson materials and small group seminars

  • helped tutor students one on one

• learned to match the pace of students

  • people have different learning styles/interests

How did you become interested in taking a Museum Guide job?

• history jobs are limited

• wanted to be guide because I love teaching others about history

• entry-level job until I can work as a curator or historian at the museum

• great work with my current grad school studies

Handling multiple guests is often a pretty stressful task so if you were a Museum guide right now, how would you mitigate the stress?

• learned stress management for school and work

  • breathing exercises

• stressful experience with tutoring

  • scheduling issues

  • rely on constant communication and actively reaching out

  • drop a student if needed

• teaching and guiding doesn’t feel particularly stressful to me

  • have experience teaching

  • have experience with leading small groups

In an event where an obnoxious visitor disturbs the tour, how would you handle the situation?

• give a general reminder first to the whole group

• pull them aside privately

  • don’t think that most people are trying to be disruptive, so I try to have a lot of empathy

• ask for security to get involved if needed

In your opinion, what defines the perfect educational environment for a museum?

• the opportunity for guests to learn and explore on their own

• guided lessons and free time

You stated in your resume that you have a skill in tutoring and curriculum design. With this skill, how will you teach guests about the history of certain exhibits?

• learned that it was best to have multiple lesson plans and ask students what they want to work on