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1. Describe a typical day in your classroom? 2. What role does technology play in your teaching? 3. Why do you want to teach at our school? 4. What are your two top strengths and your two worst weaknesses (hint: include how you overcome them) 5. What type of relationships should teachers have with students 6. What is a parent’s responsibility/role in the education process? 7. What specific steps can you take to help students WIN each day? 8. How do you magnify, enhance, and cherish learning in your classroom? 9. How do you show students you enjoy, appreciate all types of learning? 10. Discuss the purpose of testing 11. How do you ascertain if mastery has been achieved? 12. Discuss 2 current trends in educational research/best practices and how you would apply them in your classes 13. Whose responsibility is learning? 14. Describe the process you use to communicate effectively with parents and students? 15. What personal characteristics do you bring to teaching that ensures student success? 16. What coaching/sponsorship responsibilities are you prepared to accept? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">17. What three descriptors would you expect students to use in describing you? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">18. What is the purpose of homework and how do you use it? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">19. What strengths would you bring to your content department? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">20. What attributes distinguish a truly outstanding teacher from a good one? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">21. What do you do to ensure that students have many opportunities to succeed both in and out of class? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">22. What skills deserve the most emphasis in your content area? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">23. How do your regulate student activities and behavior to maintain order in your classroom? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">24. How would you describe your teaching style? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">25. Describe your techniques for halting disruptive behavior. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">26. List a hierarchy of interventions/consequences that you would use in your classroom to deal with disruptive or oppositional behavior? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">27. Describe your procedures for beginning and ending a class. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">28. Describe a typical unit you planned. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">29. How would you handle a hostile parent? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">30. Why did you go into teaching? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">31. What are you looking for in a school in which you would like to teach? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">32. How do you appraise your teaching? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">33. How do you plan to keep educationally current? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">34. What do you want personally and professionally out of being an educator? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">35. What will be your biggest obstacles in being a teacher? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">36. Give me an example of an exemplary lesson or series of lessons that you have taught and tell me why you think they were effective. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">37. As a new person in our building, how would go about making yourself a valuable member of this staff, and establishing yourself as a positive and cooperative part of the whole? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">38. Do you favor hands-on or lecture? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">39. Describe what you do to plan for the semester? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">40. A student is failing—describe the steps you would take to turn the situation around? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">41. How do you incorporate reading and writing into your daily teaching? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">42. How to you prepare students for the CSAP? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">43. What are the attributes of a highly effective classroom? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">44. What was the most frustrating thing that happened to you as a student teacher? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 45. Describe your teaching style. How do you accommodate different levels and learning styles? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 46. Is it better to have humor or discipline in the classroom? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 47. One of the goals in our district is to increase parental participation. What can you do as a teacher to support this goal? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 48. Tell us about your experience with team teaching. How would you assess the success of your past experience? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 49. What relationship should a teacher and the principal have in the educational process? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> 50. In what areas do you see the need for you to improve?
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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Concluding questions <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">What additional reasons would you give for selecting you to join our staff? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">What questions do you have about our school? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Is there anything else you would like to add?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">DON’T ASK and SHARE: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--going into administration <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--time school starts/stops <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--how many students in a class

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">DO: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--DO NOT TAKE A CELL PHONE WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--answer in COMPLETE, concise sentences <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--THINK about your answer before you talk <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--eye contact <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--look VERY professional <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">---get a student/parent handbook from the main office a few days ahead of time <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--have plenty of resumes in your portfolio <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--LEAVE your portfolio <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">--send a thank you email

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