Saturday, 5 January 2013

The Most Common Questions Asked In a Teaching Interview

When you get that call from your employer asking you to interview for a job, you may feel happy and excited. But after this excitement dies down, you'll begin to realize that you have a lot of preparing to do before you can secure that job. You don't need to worry about if you're qualified for the job, because if the company has already asked you for an interview, you know that you have the skills and previous experience for the job. If you are able to prepare responses to questions prior to the interview, the interview will go smoother then you think.

Below is a list of three commonly asked teacher interview questions. Practicing responses to these will help you secure your job.

How do you teach to the state standards?

School administrators usually love to talk about state, local, or national standards. Be sure to make sure your interviewer knows that everything you do and teach to the class ties into the state requirements. Make sure to have lesson plans ready in your portfolio that you can so to them to demonstrate your accurate knowledge about the state requirements. When asked this question, pull out your lesson plans right away and so than the close ties between your teaching philosophy and the standards for the state or federal government.

How do you prepare your students for standardized tests?

Almost any grade level, students are required to take standardized tests. Be sure to know the names of the standardized test, to talk about each one specifically. Make sure to include how students positively benefited from your teaching. You also make a good impression on the interviewer if you know the format of each test, and describe each section individually.

Describe how you discipline your students when needed.

When answering this question, be sure to come across to your interviewer as positive, and willing to help the students as often as possible. Be sure that you discipline philosophy includes tons of positive reinforcement, you have a clear tone of voice, but don't scream or yell. Mention that you have consequences for inappropriate behavior in the classroom, but your discipline philosophies follow local and state standards for disciplining. Also emphasize what you do to solve the problem at the root when problems arise. Don't tell your interviewer that one of the most popular things that you do is you send the students directly to the principal's office, because if you do that, it will show your interviewer that you don't care about the problem, and are willing to hand it off to somebody else. Be sure to describe how to get the parents involved if this problem is repetitive.

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