Interview information

Possible questions

All areas

• Principal, "Tell me how you believe children learn?"
• Principal, "If I walk into your classroom what will I see?"
• Principal, "Describe how teachers can use a theory on how children learn and incorporate it into their classroom instruction.
• Principal, "Tell me how you will teach so children can learn?
• Principal, "Tell me how do you motivate students?"
• Principal, "How will you manage your classroom?"

Science related

• Principle and interview commitee:
• "What does science mean to you?"
• "How important is it to teach science?"
• "What do you think about the Science Standards?
• "What do people need to know to be scientifically literate?"
• "If you were to develop a science curriculum any way that you choose, what categories would you include?"
• "If I walked into your classroom during a science class, what would I see?"
• "What basic ideas would you use to guide you when teach science?"
• "What does hands on mean to you?"
• "What does inquiry science mean to you?"
• "Many teachers don't plan a lot of time for teaching science. How much time do you think should spent on science and how will you schedule that time?"
• "If a primary teaching colleague, in a faculty meeting, stated that s/he had enough to do to teach reading and that young children weren't ready to understand real science and it would be far better to teach them how to read so that they can read well enough to really understand science when they were older, how would you respond?"

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