#1177. Interview Questions Part I

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Posted Sat Jul 17 18:59:01 PDT 1999 by LAURI/HS math (lbetzer@qwest.net).
Still in the interviewing process...., Glendale, AZ, U.S.A.
Concepts Taught: To help you prepare for your 1st interview.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS PART I

1. Give a brief overview of your preparation for this position: school experience, etc.
2. Why have you chosen teaching as a profession and specifically what attracts you to the ______________ School?
3. Outline your plan for classroom management. Address your expectations for student behavior and discipline.
4. Briefly describe your concept of the team process and how you would contribute to its success.
5. How would you accommodate special needs students in your classroom?
6. How would you integrate academic curriculum?
7. How will you evaluate and assess student progress?
8. As a teacher of young adolescents, what do you perceive to be your most difficult challenges?
9. What part do extra-curricular and out of class activities play in the learning process?
10. What one thing would you like the interview panel to remember about you when making their final decision of whom to employ?
11. Outline some of the things you will do as a teacher which will allow you to establish harmonious relationships with students.
12. Explain how your own personal values will be reflected in your teaching.
13. Comment on the following components of teaching: motivation, classroom control, planning.
14. Describe the classroom conditions that best facilitate student learning. Include strategies you would use to assure maximum learning for all students.
15. Describe your beliefs related to student behavior. Indicate what you hope students will have learned about behavior as a result of having you for a teacher.
16. In what ways are your qualified to address the issue of diversity as a part of your instructional program.
17. At the end of your first year of employment in this district, how will you determine whether or not you have been successful?
18. Prepare a letter which could be used when you're first hired to introduce yourself to the parents, students, and staff in your school community, include your beliefs about teaching and learning and help us to visualize what life in your classroom will be like.
19. The reason why you desire to work in this district.
20. Beliefs about teaching and learning.
21. Amplify any educational qualifications, which you wish to stress.
22. Present any additional information, which you have not been able to include elsewhere on this application.