- Tell me about yourself.
- What are the most important or worthwhile qualifications of a good teacher?
- Describe yourself, your background and why you are interested in being a teacher?
- With all the qualified teachers, why should I hire you?
- Tell me what you think the role of a principal is?
- If it were within your power, what is one thing you would change regarding education today. How would you change it?
- What are the most important or worthwhile qualities of a good teacher?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher?
- Describe your student teaching successes and failures?
- Describe a good lesson, explain why it was good.
- How would you go about planning a lesson?
- How organized are you? How do you stay organized?
- How would you individualize a curriculum for students at various levels?
- How would you identify special needs of students?
- Many parents are reluctant to get involved with their children's schools. Why do you think this is and what can be done about it?
- What methods do you use for classroom management? Describe one difficult incident with a student, and how you handled it.
- Give me an example of a rule or procedure in your classroom?
- Have you ever broken a rule? If so, what determines whether you break a rule or not?
- How much knowledge and experience have you had with inclusion or collaborative teaching? How would you evaluate this practice?
- As you enter a new job in the fall (or spring) you will most likely be meeting a new staff for the First time. What kinds of things will you do to acclimate yourself and what would you want from others to help you settle in?
- What methods have you used or would you use to assess student learning?
- What do you see as the relative strengths/weakness norm-referenced tests?
- What does being "at-risk" for school failure mean? What are some of the factors/conditions that might put a child at-risk?
- What experience have you had incorporating computers in a classroom?
- Describe your most significant contribution in your last job or student teaching?
- What grade level would you be most comfortable teaching?
- Are you a team player? If so, please give me an example.
- What extracurricular activities do you participate in?
- Are you involved in any other interviews at this time?
- What was the last educational article you read, name the title, author, details of the article and what prompted you to read the article in the First place?
- What type of reading program did you use in student teaching? (basal, novel, whole language, etc)
- How would you describe the ways that children learn from birth to age 9?
- If you could design the ideal classroom for the elementary grades what would it look like?
- We know that children learn by making connections. What implications does this have for curriculum at the elementary level?
- Which subject area do you believe is your strength, which is your weakest? What steps will you take to improve in this area
- A lot has been discussed regarding motivation of students at this age. What do you think contributes to the lack of motivation students feel?
- What do you think is an appropriate amount of homework for this age student? How much weight would homework hold in your consideration for grading on report cards?
- What do you think are the top three qualities needed to be a successful middle school teacher?
- What is meant by "teaming" at the middle school level? How does it support instruction?
- What are some characteristics of middle school aged students that need to be considered when planning middle school programs?
- What do you believe is an acceptable failure rate in courses at the high school?
- What do you believe causes school failure?
- How would you get a student to do their work when they absolutely refuse to do anything? (i.e. A senior who says, "I don't care if I flunk, I have enough credits to pass anyway.")
- Describe your grading practices. What ingredients go into grades and what percent would you give to each?
- What are some alternative scheduling configurations being used at the high school level? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each?
- Which should be the primary concern of high school teachers: the content or the kids? Provide a rationale for your choice.
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