1. Tell me about yourself.
    
2. What are some of your strengths? Weaknesses?
    
3. What are you hobbies and interests?
    
4. Why do you want to be a teacher?
    
5. What do you find to be the most challenging part of teaching?
    
6. Is there a defining moment, student, or person that has stuck with you and will continue to influence you as a teacher?
    
7. What is a recent book you have read?
    
8. Tell me about three people who have most influenced your own education and career.
    
9. What 4 words would you use to describe yourself?
    
10.  If your friends and family had to describe you in 4 words, what would they say?
     
11.  How do you handle stress?
     
12.  How do you keep yourself motivated when you have a challenging day in the classroom?
     
13.  What do you think will provide you the greatest satisfaction in teaching?
     
14.  What contributions can you make to our school outside of teaching in the classroom?
     
15.  What would you like to tell us about yourself that you couldn’t fit on your resume or cover letter?
     
16.  What kind of students do you like to work with?
     
17.  What do you do when you must teach students who are reluctant learners?
     
18.  What do you do when a student ridicules an assignment, saying it doesn’t make any sense?
     
19.  How do you help students experience success?
     
20.  What are some of the ways you get to know your students personally?
     
21.  How would you challenge the slow learner and the advanced learner within the same class?
     
22.  Are you friends with your students?
     
23.  How would your students describe you?
     
24.  What kind of teachers would you prefer to work with? Why?
     
25.  When would you defer to a colleague? When might a colleague defer to you?
     
26.  Do you prefer working alone or as a team?
     
27.  What extracurricular activities would you like to get involved with?
     
28.  What qualities do you have that would enhance our teaching staff?
     
29.  What are some personal characteristics you find desirable or undesirable in people that you work with?
     
30.  What needs and/or expectations do you have of other teachers and the school administration?
     
31.  Why is the parent-teacher relationship so important?
     
32.  What are some effective ways to communicate with parents?
     
33.  How would you go about increasing parental involvement?
     
34.  Describe the reasons why you would contact parents?
     
35.  Talk about a time when you have had a conflict with a parent?
     
36.  How do you handle difficult parents?
     
37.  What are some of things you want to tell your parents at open house night?
     
38.  What do you do about parents who do not speak the same language as you?
     
39.  How might you serve the needs of second language learners in your classroom?
     
40.  What community activities would you like to be associated with? Why?
     
41.  What do you consider your most important role as a teacher?
     
42.  What skills will you bring to this grade level team and school? Why should we hire you?
     
43.  What makes you an effective teacher?
     
44.  What are the most important things a teacher must accomplish during the first few days of school?
     
45.  How would you integrate technology into the curriculum?
     
46.  Describe some innovative projects or hands-on activities you have been involved with.
     
47.  How can you make your subject relevant to the lives of your students and at the same time incorporate state standards?
     
48.  Give an example of how you have used cooperative learning in your classroom.
     
49.  What teaching strategies do you use to motivate students to learn?
     
50.  How do you integrate curriculum across subject/content areas?
     
51.  How do you handle classroom management issues?
     
52.  What are your classroom rules and procedures?
     
53.  What methods of classroom management have you tried which were not successful?
     
54.  What teaching strategies do you use to address the different learning styles of the students in your classroom?
     
55.  Class discussions among students are often unsuccessful.  How can you involve all of the class in a meaningful discussion of an issue?
     
56.  Talk about a time when you have experienced success in the classroom.
     
57.  Describe a lesson that went poorly. What would you do differently next time?
     
58.  How do you teach something that you don’t want to teach, but must?
     
59.  What have you learned from subbing, etc. that you did not expect to? What was your biggest challenge?
     
60.  What are some things you have seen while subbing that you will do in your classroom? That you won’t do?
     
61.  Why do you want to teach at this school/district/grade level?
     
62.  What do you see as the role of the principal?
     
63.  Tell us about a time when you have received critical/constructive feedback and how you reacted to that.
     
64.  How do you think children learn best?
     
65.  How do you know your students are learning?
     
66.  What experience do you have teaching students with special needs?
     
67.  How will you adapt your lessons for students with special needs?
     
68.  What is your experience with the IEP process?
     
69.  How will you differentiate instruction?
     
70.  You’ve tried everything for a struggling student, now what?
     
71.  What do you do for the student who repeatedly says, “I don’t get it”?
     
72.  How do you handle students who always seem to procrastinate?
     
73.  Do you feel it is important to teach reading in the content areas or should that be left up to the reading/language arts teachers?
     
74.  What are some strategies you use to improve reading comprehension?
     
75.  Given the choice, would you rather use a textbook or trade books and outside sources? Why?
     
76.  What are some strategies you use with students with ADD?
     
77.  What will you do for gifted and talented students in your class?
     
78.  What is your philosophy on inclusion?
     
79.  How would you handle a parent who disagrees with your philosophy of education?
     
80.  What do you think the role of the resource teachers should be?
     
81.  What are your thoughts on the self-contained classroom?
     
82.  What would your classroom look like? If money were no object, describe your ideal classroom?
     
83.  How much class time will you spend on teaching reading?
     
84.  Address the stages of reading at this grade level?
     
85.  Talk about a thematic unit you have taught.
     
86.  Describe a sample lesson.
     
87.  What constitutes an appropriate lesson?
     
88.  How do you assess student learning?
     
89.  How you would use data to influence instruction.
     
90.  What experience do you have with standardized testing?
     
91.  How do you prepare your students for high stakes standardized tests?
     
92.  What are your thoughts on No Child Left Behind?
     
93.  Are you familiar with the state standards?
     
94.  It’s the beginning of the school year…how do you start?
     
95.  Talk about a specific example of a behavior problem you have dealt with.
     
96.  Talk about a time when you have had a conflict with a student.
     
97.  How do you foster a classroom environment of respect?
     
98.  As a principal, I spend a lot of my day walking around the school. If I were to enter your classroom unannounced, what would I be likely to see?
     
99.  What is your favorite children’s book?

100. What one book do you think every student at this grade should read?

101. Talk about your experiences with multiculturalism in the classroom.

102.  How would you attend to your students’ social needs?

103.  How would you handle student reactions to Sept. 11th? War in Iraq? Terrorism?

104.  What type of professional development courses have you taken?

105.  What type of professional development courses would you like to take?

106.  Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10? 20?

107.  Have you ever been denied tenured?

108.  What do you see as the most difficult aspect of teaching?

109.  Anything else you want to add?

110.  What questions do you have for us?