Saturday, February 26, 2011
The Questions - Part I
The heart of every interview is the questions you'll be asked by an assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent, or superintendent (or someone else such as the Director of Human Resources).
There is no way at all to predict exactly what you'll be asked. The best you can do is answer honestly and thoughtfully based on what you know and what you've experienced in your preparation.
However, I've contacted several of my school administrator friends and asked them to supply me with questions they've actually used in the past. These next several posts will feature these questions. I invite you to post possible responses to these as a way of preparing yourself for your future interviews.
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1. How do you feel about relationship-building with your students? What does that mean to you?
2. Why might that be an important part of your job?
3. How would you go about building those relationships?
4. What kind of a role do you believe parents play in the educational process? How do they complete the relationship building process?
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1. Relationship-building is essential in the classroom because it is through such relationships that both teachers and students feel both comfortable and motivated in sharing relevant information about their personal lives to the material being covered in the class. It is through such connections, between students' and the teacher's lives to the content, that meaningful learning often occurs. For us, relationship-building means seeing the students for who they are by knowing about the extracurricular activities they participate in and their hobbies. This information is vital when connecting the content in the curriculum to students' daily lives.
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3. Relationship-building activities include: asking students what their activities, interests, and hobbies are by having them either fill out a note card with this information or write a autobiographical story in which they include this information. In addition, incorporating group work and discussion-based activities will help in students knowing and becoming more comfortable with one another and with the instructor as well.
4. Parents play an essential part in students' educational experiences by communicating with the teacher any questions, concerns, or suggestions they have which may be beneficial to not only their individual child, but the entire class as well. Vice versa, teachers communicating with parents by sharing their own questions, concerns, and suggestions may also help that student become more successful by having the parents encourage that student to take on certain responsibilities at home which will ensure their success in the classroom.