1. Why did you decide to go into teaching?
2. How would you set up a reading program?
3. Please explain your activities that increase "time on task"?
4. What are some challenges you've overcome?
5. How would you handle a student who is being disruptive?
6. What are your weaknesses?
7. Why should we hire you?
8. How will you motivate students?
9. Tell us about yourself/ about your background?
10. What do you like most and least about teaching?
11. How well do you listen to others?
12. Describe a significant impact that made you want to teach.
13. What are some characteristics of a good staff member/teacher?
14. What is your knowledge/experience with technology?
15. How would you resolve a conflict involving two of your students who had to be separated because of a fight outside your classroom; and how would you deal with the students later in your classroom?
16. Explain a situation where a student breaks a rule and how you would handle it.
17. What is the most innovative thing you have done as a teacher?
18. How do you feel about participating in committees? What about extra assignments?
19. How would you involve parents and the community?
20. How have you handled diversity? Describe a situation where you have taken your students' background into consideration for teaching a lesson.
21. The mission statement of our school is... How would you support this mission in your classroom and daily teaching?
22. Explain the connection you see between student self-concepts and school achievement. In what ways do you build positive self-concept and school achievement? In what ways do you build positive self-concept in your daily teaching?
23. What are your sources of ideas?
24. Describe current research you have read about and its significance to your learning.
25. Tell me about three or more characteristics of an affective teacher?
26. How do you define doing a good job as a teacher?
27. Explain your expectations for performance from your students---how your expectations as a teacher influence student learning. Cite research you have read on the topic.
28. Tell me how you will organize your lesson plans and what you do if you don't complete the lessons.
29. Please explain activities that increase or reduce time on task.
What are some of the most imaginative or innovative things you have done?
30. What methods other than formal testing would you use to determine if a student is learning?
31. How would you help a student extend an answer to a question that needed more depth?
32. How would you handle an "incorrect" answer from a student?
33. How good are you at oral communication and how do you know?
34. Are there any limits as to how far you would tailor your instruction for one student?
35. Do you view the role of the teacher as instructor or facilitator?
36. Describe how you use new and the most up-to-date technology, supplemental audio-visual materials, and other outside resources in your teaching.
37. Tell us what subjects/curriculum you would be teaching at this grade level.
38. What are the components of an effective Math program?
40. How would you teach science?
41. Give me an overview of a good reading lesson.
42. What writing skills would be developed at this grade level?
43. Describe a situation in which you were teaching a lesson and it didn't go as you planned. What did you do?
44. What would you do with a student who is "hyperacitve"?
45. Give me an example of a disciplinary problem you encountered and how you handled it.
46. On a scale of one to ten how would you rate your discipline approach?
47. Have you had an opportunity to be involved in the school improvement process or North Central Accreditation?
48. How would your former supervisor or mentor teacher describe you?
49. Give several examples of how you would display student work in the school or community.
50. Why are you the best candidate for the job?
51. What would be your most difficult task as a teacher?
52. What would you do to increase student motivation?
53. If you could change your personality in one area what would you change?
54. What are you doing to continue your professional growth?
55. Can you explain the things you have done to prepare yourself for a teaching career?
56. Describe a particular situation working with children which was especially rewarding?
57. How do you work with a heterogeneous group of children-- "slow learners" and "gifted" -- when they are in one class? Give me some examples.
58. Can you explain how you prepare to teach a new lesson?
59. What changes or new ideas did you originate in your intern or current teaching assignment?
60. What seminars or workshops have you attended? What did you find to be valuable?
61. Have you picked up any new methods or ideas from other teachers? How did you do this?
62. Describe the elements of a good lesson?
63. What can you offer us?
64. What special skills do you have that you can bring into the classroom?
65. How would your past co-workers describe you?
66. How would your friends describe you?
67. How have you made money in the past?
68. How well do you/have you worked with other teachers?
69. How do you know students are learning?
70. Describe a decision you made and its effect.
71. Describe some new ideas that you are eager to try in th classroom.
72. Describe a specific situation in which you were sensitive to the needs of others.
73. Describe a stressful situation and how you dealt with it.
74. Beginning with high school, tell me about yourself -- what have you been doing? What activities have you been involved in?
75. What is your strength? What is your weakness?
76. What would you do to motivate a student who sat at the back of a classroom and wasn't a disturbance, but wasn't participating?
77. What would you do about a student who was continually disruptive?
78. Tell me what you know about Cooperative Learning.
79. Tell me what you know about Mastery Learning.
80. Tell me what you know about I.T.I.P. (Madeline Hunter's Instructional Theory Into Practice).
81. Tell me what you know about Inclusive Education.
82. Tell me what you know about Glasser's Reality Therapy.
83. Is there any additional information you would like to share?
84. Why did you choose education as a career?
85. What are some ideas you would like to try in the classroom?
86. Describe a situation that required you to be sensitive to someone else's needs? Tell me what you did. What was the outcome?
87. What are your sources of ideas? Where do you draw your information for new and exciting ideaas in the field of education?
88. Tell me about one of your most stressful encounters and what you did. What was the outcome?
89. What have been your community interests/involvements outside of school? How have these experiences enhanced your ability to relate to students?
90. We all need a gauge or a measure of our own success. What criteria do you use to judge your own success as a teacher?
91. Describe a situation in which you facilitated a positive outcome involving challenges created by diversity.
92. Describe a situation where decsive action was needed. What action did you take and what were the results?
