SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR AN EDUCATION MAJOR
- Tell me about your academic qualifications.
- What teaching experiences have you had?
- How do you set up classroom rules/policies?
- How do you determine grades?
- What do you do when a student doesn't understand a concept?
- How do you control students?
- Should students evaluate their teachers?
- Describe a good teacher.
- If I were to ask your principal/mentor teacher to describe you and your performance, what would they say?
- How would you handle an irate parent?
- How do you know a student in your class has progressed?
- Why are you going into teaching?
- Why do you want to teach for us?
- What are the current methods/texts of preparation in your field?
- What is your philosophy of education?
- What kinds of relationships would you like to have with students - with your fellow teachers?
- Describe a major problem you have faced and how you dealt with it.
- Discuss your student teaching experience. What did you like/dislike? Change you would have made?
- Describe the best lesson you have delivered. Why was it successful?
- How will you instruct/challenge students with varying abilities?
- What techniques would you use to be sure that pupils understand?
- How do you deal with the unmotivated student?
- How would you apply technology to enhance daily instruction?
- Describe your philosophy regarding discipline.
- How would you deal with a student who disrupts?
- What would a typical day look like in your classroom?
- When students say they want their teacher to be fair, what do you think they mean?
- Describe a situation in your last job when you felt pressure. How did you handle it?
- What kinds of tests do you like to give?
- How do you stay current in your field?
- What educational research do you find most compelling and how have you incorporated it into your classroom?
- What are some oft he considerations you make when planning your lessons?
- Are you willing to sponsor any extra-curricular activities?
- If you could establish an ideal school, what would it look like?
- What does "teamwork" mean to you? Give an example.
- What are some methods of communicating student progress to parents other than report cards?
- What are your career goals short-term and long-term?
- What do you bring to the community besides your educational background?
- WHat makes you an effective teacher?
- Describe your fears of being a teacher.
- Why did you sign up to interview with our system?
