How do you prepare for a teaching job interview? There could be hundreds of questions the interviewer can ask! So some tips on what you might prepare for:
1. Tell me about yourself. Have a brief story ready about your experiences in life; growing up, school, activities, interests, hobbies. You need to make a connection with the interviewer, so make it interesting, can include humor and make sure you practice it from beginning to end.
2. In your first teaching job, questions might be more difficult as you have not experienced your own classroom. So be prepared to discuss: classroom management, how you will work with a team and collaborate, understanding of the Common Core Standards, instructional strategies, how you differentiate for students in learning, how you will assess students and what you will do with the results, communication with parents, how you might work with special education students, and what was your best lesson, and what was your worst lesson.
3. Be positive, upbeat, enthusiastic as you speak; practice some points for each of the possible topics above, so you have a framework in your head and you are not fumbling during your response. If you have examples to share in which you have experienced success with a management or classroom strategy, use that in your response to personalize it more. Remember, this is about what YOU will do in your classroom, not what your student teacher supervisor will do. You can compile all those experiences to share what YOU will use that is most effective!
Good Luck!!
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