Question Bank: K-12 Education

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Below, you will find questions divided into sub-categories for K-12 Education.

Behavioral

1. Describe a grading system that has worked well for you in the past?
2. Describe a unit of curriculum that you have taught.
3. Describe classroom management plans that you have used.
4. Describe how you conduct a parent/guardian conference.
5. Describe the experiences you have had in implementing a standards-based curriculum.
6. How have you dealt with students who do not complete their homework?
7. How have you divided large amounts of material to be covered?
8. How have you motivated your students?
9. How would you write a plan and what is included in each plan?
10. Share an example of communication with a parent that helped you in dealing with the child.
11. Tell me about an individual lesson that went well.
12. What have you read/studied recently that led to a change in your classroom?
13. What parts of your teacher training do you use the most?

Early Childhood

1. Describe the phases of early childhood development and explain which are most important.
2. How do you identify those individuals who have not yet developed and what do you intend to teach them?
3. What are the various characteristics that you would like a child to develop at an early age?
4. What do you remember about your own experience while going through early childhood education?
5. Are there aspects you would like to utilize in your classroom?
6. What inspired you to want to teach early childhood education?

Elementary Education

1. Give us a few examples of the issues you have come across while teaching children and how you handled them?
2. How are the students of elementary education different from those of secondary education?
3. How do you intend to deal with the parents of those students who misbehave often?
4. If you would not have been working as an elementary school teacher, what else would you be doing?
5. It is often said elementary education is the backbone of the edifice of a person’s education period. What’s your take on this?
6. Most classes have students with a wide range of reading abilities. What can you do to meet the needs of students with high reading abilities and low reading abilities at the same time?
7. What do you dislike most in the way elementary education is being imparted?
8. What do you like the most in the pattern of elementary education?
9. What is your suggestion to improve the elementary education structure of the country?
10. What kind of a relationship would you like to build with your students and why?
11. What makes you think you will be in a position to successfully deal with the numerous challenges that an elementary teacher faces?
12. What elements of elementary education are most important to a "typical" student?
13. Why did you opt to work as an elementary teacher?

English Language Learners

1. How do you communicate classroom expectations to a group with varying language abilities?
2. How do you incorporate cultural awareness and sensitivity into the curriculum?
3. How would you welcome a student who is new to the country into the school and your classroom?

Foreign Language

1. If you HAD to pick one out of the five (speaking, writing, listening, reading, culture), which do you think is the MOST important? Why?
2. In foreign language classes, when students begin to fall behind it can be detrimental to their performance because so much learning is built on previous knowledge. What interventions will you use to help the students who are not achieving academically in your classroom?
3. What is your belief on the best way to learn a language? Which do you think is ideal following a book, taking a grammatical/translation approach, utilizing TPRS, or having a mix?
4. With what frequency do you foresee using the various components of learning a language in your lessons? (listening, reading, writing, speaking, and culture)

General

1. Besides lectures, what methods of teaching do you use?
2. Describe the biggest challenge you've ever had to face.
3. Describe your college experiences.
4. Describe your philosophy of teaching?
5. Do you make learning fun for students? How?
6. Have you collaborated with another teacher in the same grade-level, but a different subject, e.g. Language Arts? If so, please describe this.
7. How do you encourage students to be excited about learning, while teaching to the state standards?
8. How would you handle a situation if a student was to curse you or disrespect you?
9. How would you prepare your classroom and yourself prior to the first day of school?
10. How would you respond if you saw a student being bullied in the hallway?
11. How would you teach conflict resolution to your students?
12. If you could create the ideal school, what would it be like?
13. In what ways do you encourage creativity in your classroom?
14. Tell us about a lesson in which you've used differentiated instruction.
15. Tell us about your experiences working with students at this age level.
16. Tell us about your student teaching experience. What was your favorite part? What was your least favorite part?
17. What are some of the most important things you learned when student teaching?
18. What can you do for a student that is extremely gifted?
19. What do you consider your strength and weakness as a teacher?
20. What do you do to prepare your students for state or standardized tests?
21. What is your work experience in the education field and why do you think we should hire you?
22. What makes a teacher successful and how do you intend to imbibe those qualities in yourself?
23. What was the most frustrating thing about student teaching?
24. What would you do if a lesson planned by you does not go according to your plan?
25. What would you do if a student brought in a project and it was obviously done by a parent?
26. What would you do if a student wasn't handing their homework in on a regular basis?
27. Who is your favorite author and which book of his do you like the most and why?
28. Why did you become a teacher?
29. Would you be willing to help out with extra-curricular activities? Which ones?
30. Would you describe yourself as a "tough" teacher or an "understanding" teacher? Explain.

High School Education

1. Give an example of a lesson or unit that teaches one or more employability skills.
2. How do you keep abreast of current business trends?
3. How will you connect your curriculum to the real-world?
4. How would you incorporate leadership into your classroom?

Language Arts

1. Describe a unit you designed for the classroom and focus on the process of designing the unit from beginning to end.
2. Discuss the last author/book you have read?
3. Give us an example of a unit designed to teach the elements of fiction?
4. How do you address plagiarism in your classroom?
5. How will you incorporate culturally diverse literature in your class?
6. What is your approach to teaching literature and/or language arts?
7. What strategies will you use to teach grammar?
8. What strategies would you use to help struggling readers in the Language Arts classroom?

Mathematics

1. Give an example of a topic (i.e. fractions) that students tend to have conceptual difficulties with. Now teach me this topic (and show me how you would handle dealing with the conceptual problems).
2. How will you make math relevant to the students?
3. What is your opinion on using calculators?
4. What manipulatives do you use? How effective are they?

Middle School

1. How will keep middle school students engaged 90-100% of the time?
2. How would you describe middle school students?
3. If you had to choose two required reading books for middle school, what two would they be?
4. What activities have you have implemented that reflect your philosophy of education as it relates to middle school students?
5. What are the benefits and challenges to working at the middle school level?
6. Why do you want to teach at the middle school level?
7. You teach middle school Reading. The class has to read a required class-reading book. How do you get the student who says, "I hate this book and refuse to read it," to read this book?

Music Education

1. How do you intend to align your musical interests with those students who do not desire to learn this art?
2. How important do you think music is and why should someone learn it?
3. If given an opportunity, what is the music syllabus that you would like to roll out for your students?
4. If you would not have been teaching music, what else would you be doing?
5. Tell us about three events or accomplishments of your musical career that you are most proud of.
6. What is your background in music? What are you doing to continue learning?

Pedagogy

1. Describe any multicultural, gender-fair classroom practices you have used in the past and how you would ensure equality among your students.
2. Describe a teaching strategy you used to maximize the learning potential of all students.
3. Describe two to three instructional tools you need in the classroom?
4. Describe your use of auditory, visual, and hands-on teaching techniques.
5. Explain how you use differentiated instruction in the classroom?
6. Full inclusion is part of the educational environment. How would you meet the needs of a full inclusion child and design a program?
7. How does your philosophy translate to the types of lessons you actually have students complete in your classroom?
8. How do you give your students recognition? Do you think a student can have too much recognition?
9. How would you handle making a difficult phone call to a parent?
10. Provide an example of a successful lesson that you created and used.
11. What are the various reading strategies you use?
12. What role do standards play in your classroom?
13. What’s the difference between a good and a great teacher?
14. What strategies would you use to enhance students’ writing skills?
15. What will you do to engage parents? How will you get them actively involved in their child’s education?

Professional Development

1. How do you evaluate your own teaching?
2. How do you keep abreast of your field?
3. What are your goals for next year?
4. What is the last book you read or conference you attended that benefited you professionally?
5. What is the most significant professional development you have received?
6. What professional development workshops would you like to attend?
7. What will make you a great teacher in 5-10 years?
8. What will you be doing in five years?

Science

1. How would you integrate technology into your science teaching? How would you integrate math? Reading? Writing? Social Studies?
2. If you were hired to teach starting this September, how would you go about setting up your science program?
3. In which field of science do you feel particularly strong? Explain.
4. In which field of science do you feel the least knowledgeable/competent in? Explain.
5. Tell me about a current science event that you have read about this week? How would you use this in the classroom?
6. What inspired you to become a science teacher?
7. What is your philosophy on teaching science to elementary kids? Teenagers? Economically disadvantaged kids?
8. What lab safety methods do you implement in your program?
9. What role do you believe that the adopted Science book should serve in your classroom?
10. What science curriculum do you have experience with? What do you like or dislike about them?
11. What Science organizations are you involved with (as a member or other)?
12. Where do you find resources other than the Science book in order to keep your students current on the constantly evolving knowledge of science?
13. Why would or would not you use lab groups or lab partners in your class? How would you establish lab groups/lab partners (what criteria would you use)?

Social Studies

1. Do you consider yourself well aware of current world issues and politics?
2. Do you make it a habit of watching the news or reading newspapers or news magazines? Do you watch local or national news programs?

Special Education

1. A general education teacher is concerned that a child with an IEP does not belong in her classroom due to behavior problems. How do you respond?
2. A special education teacher must be both organized and flexible. Give examples of ways that you have demonstrated both of these characteristics.
3. Can you give us some instances of the past where you have worked with students with special needs?
4. Describe a few exercises or educational courses that you would like to utilize with your students.
5. Given a wide range of ability levels in a classroom, how do you assure compliance with each child’s IEP?
6. How have you overcome problems of understanding with children that have special needs?
7. How will you coordinate/facilitate instruction to meet Adequate Yearly Progress goals?
8. How would you delegate responsibilities to a paraprofessional and monitor his/her performance?
9. Paperwork/documentation is a strong concern in the area of special education. How will you manage those demands, in addition to your teaching responsibilities?
10. What are the common problems that you have come across while working with students with special needs?
11. What are the common problems that you have come across while working with these children?
12. What do you believe are the three major challenges facing special education today?
13. What is the importance of conducting IEP and CSE meetings? How do you conduct these?
14. What types of assessment have you used? What assessments would you use to document student learning and plan for future instruction? How would you use assessment to develop and modify IEP goals?
15. What types of students have you worked with in the past?
16. Why do you want to be involved in educating children with special needs?