Evaluate the Strategy for Use in Your Own Classroom

Discuss with your colleagues the challenges and benefits of using this session's strategy with your students or reflect on them in your journal.

1. How can you prepare students to be effective interviewers? What steps and activities should be a part of this preparation?
2. How might you find willing subjects to participate in your oral history projects? Are there things you can do to help make recruitment easier, and to ensure that the interviews result in the collection of useful oral history material?
3. What types of background work and materials will help students make the best use of oral history resources related to the Brown case? What should students know about the history before conducting interviews or listening to oral speakers in the classroom?