What would you do if a parent came in
extremely upset and said that his/her
child had been treated unfairly during
an incident at lunch that day?
How will you include parents in the
educational process?
What do you expect from a principal?
"If someone came into your class room
what would they see happening/how would it be arranged?" (two questions,
really)
Why did you chose teaching?
How do you feel about inclusion?
What techniques do you use for behavior
management in your classroom?
Other interviews were rigid with 6
people at a round table firing questions like
How would you develop a reading
curriculum for our school?
Teach me how to write
What if you had a child in your class
who was on medication and his behavior was regressing...would you reconsider
teaching?
What would you do if a Special Education
Teacher came to you and asked if she could have a prep period with you to plan
for a child in your class that is special ed?
What reading series have you used?
Why should we hire you?
How would you design your reading and
writing curricula?
How much of the kindergarten day should
be academic and how much social? (BTW no right answer - it really depends on
the school)
What are some of your favorite
children's books?
What is the role of literature in
kindergarten?
Describe the language acquisition of a
child.
How are you going to serve the needs of
your second language students?
Describe the discipline/classroom
management program you would establish.
What are your discipline techniques?
Are there learning centers in your
classroom? If so, what kind of learning centers do you have? How do the
learning centers work in your classroom (do they rely on computers,
independent study, group study, etc.) ? Why do you use learning centers?
What's your best recommendation to a new teacher as to how one should go about
creating their own learning centers? If you don't use learning centers, please
explain why not.
Do you use thematic units? If so, why do
you use thematic units? Please describe how you use thematic units in your
classroom? What is an example of a recent thematic unit used in your
classroom? If you don't use thematic units, please explain why not.
How do you organize math and science
yearly and daily schedules? Do you follow district curriculum guides and state
frameworks? Why or why not?
What do you want to accomplish as a
teacher?
How will you determine what your
students' attitudes and feelings are about your class?
An experienced teacher offers you the
following advice: "When you are teaching, be sure to command the respect of
your students immediately and all will go well." How do you feel about this?
How do you decide what it is that should
be taught in your class?
A parent comes to you and complains that
what you are teaching his or her child is irrelevant to the child's needs. How
would you respond?
What do you think provides you the
greatest pleasure in teaching?
When you have some free time, what do
you enjoy doing the most?
How do you determine each individual
student's potential?
Would you rather try a lot of way-out
teaching strategies for would you rather try to perfect the approaches which
work best for you? Explain your position.
Do you like to teach with an overall
plan in mind for the year, or would you rather just teach some interesting
things and let the process determine the results? Explain your position.
A student is doing poorly in your class.
You talk to him or her, and he or she tells you that he or she considers you
to be the poorest teacher he or she has ever met. What would you do?
If there were absolutely no restrictions
placed upon you, what would you most want to do in life?
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