INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Applicant Name:_________________________________________

1.Tell us about yourself

2.How will you know if you’ve had a ● Student success/learning

“good day” at work? ● Social emotional climate
● Data

3.How do you keep yourself ● Personal time/Self care

motivated when you have challenging
days in the classroom?

4.What are your professional goals for ● Growth mindset

the next 5 years?
5.What methods would you use to ● Newsletter
involve parents in their child’s ● Emails
education? ● Parent contact logs - phone calls
● Conferences
● Classroom platforms

6.Describe a time when you were ● Collaboration

faced with a student or family ● Positive to negative ratio
conflict. How did you keep and open ● Solution based
mind, how was that conflict resolved
and what you learned about yourself
from that process.

7.How would you handle a situation ● Address the person

where your ideas differ from a ● Reflective
colleague with whom you are
collaborating with?

Notes:
8.How do you ensure that your ● Differentiation/small groups
instructional outcomes reflect several ● Collaboration between students
different types of learning and ● Student voice
opportunities for your students?

9.What does formative assessment ● Variety of assessments used

look like in your classroom? Share a
recent example of how you have used
a formative assessment to guide your
instruction.

10.What does your feedback to ● Timely

students look like? Share a specific ● Specific
example where you recently gave a ● Improvement based
student feedback. What was the
feedback, what was its purpose, and
how did the student use your
feedback?

11.How do you evaluate your lesson ● Data

effectiveness? How do you determine ● Use of formative assessments
if your instructional outcomes have
been met and students are successful?

Notes:
12.Explain a time that you have used ● Creativity
an innovative strategy in the ● Trying something new
classroom?

13.What value would you bring to ● Collaboration

your PLC? How would you use your ● Flexible
PLC to improve your instruction? ● Openness
● Willing to share ideas
● Data focused

14.Explain your classroom ● Culturally responsive

management philosophy and how you ● Student voice
follow through with expectations? ● Reteaching vs. punishment

15.What questions do you have for

us?
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