Knowledge/Skill Building
🩺 Clinic Questions Interview Prep
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Product
Core Content
Community Partners
Essential Question
Critique and Revision
Submission Required
Students study sample interview moves, bias checks, and note-capture methods, then refine multilingual question sets for a nurse, epidemiologist, or infection-control specialist. Using a Spanish phrase bank and interview protocol template, teams practice follow-up questions that surface user needs, constraints, and communication barriers. Each team leaves with a polished question list and evidence-capture sheet to use during community contact.
Plan day
Day 3
Duration
70 min
Grouping
Small Group
Steps
7 steps
Lesson plan
7 steps · 70 min| # | What teachers do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Launch the task by naming the upcoming clinic interview purpose, sharing the final products this evidence will support, and having teams review a short model of strong vs. weak interview questions that shows open-ended phrasing, bias checks, and data-seeking follow-ups. (10 min) |
| 2 | Guide teams to sort possible interview questions into categories: user needs, disease transmission, statistics and trends, communication and language access, historical comparisons, and design constraints. Ask them to highlight which questions could help with a policy brief and which could help with a prototype. (12 min) |
| 3 | Have teams use the interview protocol template to draft and sequence 8–10 priority questions, including at least one Spanish greeting or question stem, one quantitative question, one question about ethical or access issues, and one question connecting modern outbreak response to lessons from the past. (18 min) |
| 4 | Run a role-play round in pairs or triads where one student acts as the clinic expert, one interviews, and one captures notes on the evidence sheet. Pause midway for teams to identify leading questions, missing follow-ups, unclear wording, and weak note-capture choices. (15 min) |
| 5 | Facilitate a gallery walk of draft interview protocols and evidence-capture sheets. Teams leave response cards focused on clarity, bias, usefulness, multilingual access, and whether the questions will produce evidence about criteria, constraints, and tradeoffs. (10 min) |
| 6 | Give teams time to revise their protocol, assign interview roles, and finalize an evidence-capture system that includes who asks which questions, how notes will be organized, and how measurable data will be marked for later analysis. (10 min) |
| 7 | Close with a quick share-out in which each team names one revised question, one likely follow-up, and one way they will make the clinic interaction respectful and accessible across languages and perspectives. (5 min) |
Preparation (10 items)
- Prepare and copy an interview protocol template with sections for opening, core questions, follow-up prompts, bias check, multilingual phrasing, and closing.
- Prepare and copy an evidence-capture sheet with columns for quote/paraphrase, quantitative data, observed needs, constraints, tradeoffs, language-access issues, and follow-up questions.
- Select or create 2 short sample interview scripts or question sets that show strong and weak questioning moves, including examples of leading questions and neutral revisions.
- Create a Spanish phrase bank with greetings, introductions, permission-to-ask language, clarification stems, and common health/public communication vocabulary appropriate for 9th grade learners.
- Post or project category labels for question sorting: user needs, transmission, statistics, communication/language access, historical lessons, and design constraints.
- Prepare response cards for the gallery walk with prompts such as clear/unclear, biased/neutral, likely to generate evidence, missing perspective, and suggested follow-up.
- Arrange teams in advance and ensure each team has chart paper or a shared digital document, markers, sticky notes, and access to the phrase bank and templates.
- Coordinate with the clinic or hospital partner to confirm the expert role, likely topic areas, and any boundaries so student questions stay relevant and respectful.
- Prepare sentence stems for discussion and revision, including accountable talk prompts and follow-up stems such as 'Can you give an example?' and 'What data would show that?'
- Set up a visible checklist of required protocol elements so teams can self-monitor before the final share-out.
Student-facing instructions
You will prepare your team for an interview with a clinic or hospital expert by building a strong, respectful, evidence-focused question set. Use the interview protocol template, evidence-capture sheet, Spanish phrase bank, and sample interview moves. First, review examples of strong and weak questions and notice how wording can invite bias or stronger evidence. Then sort possible questions into categories and decide which ones will help you understand user needs, transmission problems, statistics, language barriers, ethical concerns, and design constraints. Your task is to draft and sequence 8–10 priority questions for the expert. Include at least one Spanish greeting or question stem, at least one question that asks for measurable information, at least one question about access or trust, and at least one question that could help you compare a modern outbreak response to historical disease patterns. Next, practice your interview in a role-play while one teammate captures notes using the evidence sheet. During the gallery walk, give other teams feedback on clarity, bias, usefulness, and multilingual access. Revise your protocol, assign team roles, and leave with a polished question list and note-capture plan ready for community contact.