INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
You
are advised to spend about 5 minutes on each question.
- Explain how you would plan a ________________unit of work for a senior level. Comment on:
·
teaching
& learning strategies
·
assessing
student outcomes
·
evaluation.
- Scenario: You are part of a _____________team. Outline ways in which you would contribute to working as a teacher in a multi cultural college.
- Scenario: A boy in one of your classes seems very disengaged – he attends poorly, does not bring his books to class, does not do his homework and becomes hostile when corrected. Outline the strategies you would use to deal with this situation.
- What role would you play in a team of teachers in delivering VELs / VCE and wider school initiatives such as literacy?
- What is your view about the National Curriculum? What aspects of it do you find particularly interesting/challenging in relation to your discipline?
- Scenario: A difficult situation develops between yourself and an irate parent, who is taking the side of his/her child over an after school detention that you issued. They are refusing to let them attend. How would you deal with the situation?
- Education is an area of constant change. What changes do you regard as important and how would you deal with them?
- Describe a unit of work you have developed and explain how it would improve student outcomes. How did you measure its effectiveness?
- Describe the characteristics of a good teacher.
- What significant challenges are there currently in curriculum development? What are the challenges for Assessment and Learning?
- What would your priorities be as a beginning teacher in this school?
- What topics, themes, units… have you developed appropriate to a 7 – 10 or VCE program in English/Maths/Science/Music/Humanities……?
- What are the main educational initiatives and/or priorities for the college in the coming three years?
- What role do you expect to play as a member of the teaching staff and as a member of the Learning Areas in which you teach?
- In regards to the Middle years at this campus, what do you see as being the greatest area of need? What pedagogical approach do you think best addresses this need?
- What communication skills and experience are needed working in a multi campus college?
- How would you approach the study of issues in teaching VCE?
- What are main educational initiatives in English, Humanities, Science…. and how would you go about implementing them in 2010?
- Describe a successful classroom/student management strategy you have used appropriate to this educational setting.
- Outline to the panel a program or curriculum development you have been a part of. What was your role in the program? How did it improve your own teaching of Maths or Science and the learning of students?
- What strategies do you employ to maximize student learning and success in your classroom?
- Teamwork is a very important part of the job. Describe which teams you have worked with at a previous workplace, and your role as a member of those teams.
- A student misbehaves in your class. She is rowdy, rude, disrupts the learning of others, and does not listen to your instructions. Outline the steps you would take to resolve this problem.
- Literacy and Numeracy are recent policy initiatives of the college. Explain how you would contribute to the development of one of these initiatives and provide examples of its influence on your teaching.
- Visualise this scenario: You are the only teacher in your Learning Area to teach a subject. You are suddenly taken ill and need to take extended leave. What work practices do you currently use which would ensure that other colleagues could take over from you?
- What interpersonal and communication skills do you employ to manage conflict with either a student, colleague or parent?
- In what ways have you grown as a teacher during your training? How will you make a productive contribution to the school program?
- Our school prides itself on its co-curricular program – how would you contribute to this?
- Can you tell me about a lesson or series of lessons which went particularly well? What was it about those lessons that made them effective?
- Our classes are all mixed ability groupings. How would you go about catering for this type of class?
- One of our Annual review priorities is to increase the use of ICT in teaching and learning. What are your capabilities in the use of IT and how would you use them in your classes?
- In 2007 we introduced a curriculum based on VELs. There is a requirement for interdisciplinary learning as part of the standards. As a xxxxxxxxxxxxxx specialist, how would you implement this strand within your Learning Area.
- As a graduate teacher, what do you consider to be your particular strengths?
- You will be responsible for assessing student achievements. What assessment strategies have you used and how successful do you think they were?
- What goals do you have for your Professional Development over the next five years?
- What is your personal philosophy in relation to teaching>
- Why did you apply for this position?
- Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself and teaching?
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