1.

Tell me about yourself

2. Why did you leave your last job?
3. What experience do you have in this field?
4. Do you consider yourself successful?
5. What do co-workers say about you?
6. What do you know about this organization?
7. What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year?
8. Are you applying for other jobs?
9. Why do you want to work for this organization?
10. Do you know anyone who works for us?
11. What kind of salary do you need?
12. Are you a team player?
13. How long would you expect to work for us if hired?
14. Have you ever had to fire anyone? How did you feel about that?
15. What is your philosophy towards work?
16. If you had enough money to retire right now, would you?
17. Have you ever been asked to leave a position?
18. Explain how you would be an asset to this organization?
19. Why should we hire you?
20. Tell me about a suggestion you have made?
21. What irritates you about co-workers?
22. What is your greatest strength?
17. Have you ever been asked to leave a position?
18. Explain how you would be an asset to this organization?
19. Why should we hire you?
20. Tell me about a suggestion you have made?
21. What irritates you about co-workers?
22. What is your greatest strength?
23. Tell me about your dream job.
24. Why do you think you would do well at this job?

25. What are you looking for in a job?

26. What kind of person would you refuse to work with?
27. What is more important to you: the money or the work?
28. What would your previous supervisor say your strongest point is?
29. Tell me about a problem you had with a supervisor?
30. What has disappointed you about a job?
31. Tell me about your ability to work under pressure?
32. Do your skills match this job or another job more closely?
33. What motivates you to do your best on the job?
34. Are you willing to work overtime? Nights? Weekends?
35. How would you know you were successful on this job?
36. Would you be willing to relocate if required?
37. Are you willing to put the interests of the organization ahead of your own?
38. Describe your management style.
39. What have you learned from mistakes on the job?
40. Do you have any blind spots?
41. If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?
42. Do you think you are overqualified for this position?
43. How do you propose to compensate for your lack of experience?
44. What qualities do you look for in a boss?
45. Tell me about a time when you helped resolve a dispute between others?
46. What position do you prefer on a team working on a project?
47. Describe your work ethic.
48. What has been your biggest professional disappointment?['
49. Tell me about the most fun you have had on the job.
50. Do you have any questions for me?
32. Do you like to work independently or as a team?

1. Are all the students actively involved when you are taking a lesson?
2. What are some of your effective classroom management strategies or styles?
3. Do you get full class participation by following your methods of classroom management?
4. Can you please tell us something about the learning activities that you often conduct in
your class and do they prove to be useful to all the students?
5. How do you maintain balance between assertiveness and friendliness with your students?
1. Are all the students actively involved when you are taking a lesson?
2. What are some of your effective classroom management strategies or styles?
3. Do you get full class participation by following your methods of classroom management?
4. Can you please tell us something about the learning activities that you often conduct in
your class and do they prove to be useful to all the students?
5. How do you maintain balance between assertiveness and friendliness with your students?
6. Does your classroom management style become monotonous to students after a while or
do they remain equally involved in class as they used to before?
7. What would your typical classroom look like to a person who walks into your class?
Please describe a typical pattern in your class?
8. Do you give enough attention to all the students in class or do you prefer involving only
selected students to be involved with the class activities?
9. You must have come across times when students misbehave in class. How do you manage
inappropriate behavior by students?
10. What is that one common classroom management technique that you would suggest to
all your fellow teachers to adapt and one that you'd want them to discard?
. What is your favorite subject and why? (If your current content area is different than
your favorite or if you have applied for others as well, then the interviewer may ask you the
reason for change)
2. What do you have to say about the content in the textbooks? Do you think it is relevant
to the childs age and is it vast for him/ her to cope up with?
3. If are given an opportunity to be a part of the curriculum development team, what are
some of the initiatives youd like to take?
4. Do you update yourself with the developments in your area?
5. What kind of tests do you normally give to students?
6. Have you also held tests to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your students?
Was it effective?

7. Do you use any extra teaching material in your class than the ones that are available and
sin use, including books?
8. What are the significant changes you expect to see in the curriculum in future?

Sample Teachers Interview

1. Do you believe in designing and following lesson plans?
2. What are the different points you consider when preparing a lesson plan?
3. If you teach two different subjects would your lesson plans vary with the subject or
would it remain the same for both?
4. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate yourself in organizational skills?
5. According to your understanding and experience, do you think lesson plans should vary
as per the grade also as you think it should in the case of subjects?
6. Your subject is English. So tell us about your ideal lesson plan for students in Grade 5
for the same.
7. On what basis do you give homework to your students and how much is the quantity?
8. Besides the daily lesson plans, do you also prepare short-term and long-term plans to
finish your syllabus by the end of the term or do you rely upon your daily lesson plans?
9. How do you help your students to meet their deadlines on homework, projects etc.?
10. How do you meet your deadlines? Can you tell us about any instance when you could
not complete your task or work on time and the strategies you used that helped you finish
your work on time?

Sample Teachers Interview

1. Do you prefer working with a certain kind of student? For e.g., who is intelligent or
sincere or do you think it is a teacher's responsibility to teach any kind of a student,
regardless of whether he / she is intelligent or weak?
2. Do you give equal opportunities to all the students in class or do you distribute the
responsibilities based on the skills of the students?
3. How do you normally work with a weak student in your class? How do you encourage
such students?
4. If one of your students was to describe you, how do you think he/she would describe you?
5. Based on your experience, do you think teachers should personalize instructions
according to the ability of the individual students in class? Or do you think one form of
instruction should be followed in class as it would be more feasible for the teacher?
6. How do you deal with children with difficult behaviors? How do you establish good
relations with such students?
7. Any struggle you have had in the past with slow learners? If yes, how did you overcome

the issue and how did you make them match up with the rest of the class?
8. Do you often appreciate students, especially slow learners who work hard to perform
well and succeed?

Sample Teachers Interview

Q1. Are you a team player or do you prefer working as an individual when given
responsibilities?
Q2. What are the various extra-curricular activities that you have participated in the past?
What was your contribution in the same?
Q3. What are your strengths and weaknesses when you are a part of a team?
Q4. Are you open to feedback from your colleagues?
Q5. What are your general expectations from your co-teachers and other staff members?

Sample Teachers Interview

1. Do you think parent-teacher relationships are important? If yes, why do you think it is
vital?
2. Do you think maintaining good parent-teacher relationship makes any difference to the
child? As in, do you think that the concerns or complaints of either party can be resolved
with a healthy parent-teacher relationship?
3. Do you wait for a special occasion to share your concerns about an unhappy child with
the parents or do you ensure that you meet them at the earliest to understand whats going
on with the child?
4. How do you communicate your various concerns about the student to his / her parents?
5. In your previous experience, what are the different reasons for which you contacted the
parents?
6. In parent-teacher meetings, do you often emphasize on parent involvement?
7. On an average how much time do you take to give feedback to the parents about their
children?
8. What are your thoughts on handling difficult parents? How would you handle such
parents personally?
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1. Do you have one instructional technique that you always rely upon if nothing works?
2. What are some of the common instructional techniques that you use?
3. Every class has children with different learning abilities. How do you manage to get

everyone on the same page?

4. Do your students respond well to your teaching style or your instructional technique? If
you dont see a positive result or if you notice that your planned technique is ineffective, do
you come up with an impromptu technique?
5. What are the different methods by which you ensure that your instructional techniques
are effective?
6. What are the different techniques you work with to ensure full class participation?
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1. What brought you to teaching? Why did you choose to teach instead of going for any
other well paying professions?
2. Do you think you are a good teacher?
3. What are your strengths and weaknesses, not particularly as a teacher but as a person?
4. Can you please tell us about your favorite teacher in school and why was she/he your
favorite?
5. What is your long-term goal?
6. What are the different qualities that you seek in the Principal of a school?
7. What is that one quality that you think makes teaching different than other professions?
8. How would you like to improve yourself as teacher?
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1. How would you describe yourself as a person?
2. Do you update yourself with the new career options available for students who intend to
pursue your specialization or subject?
3. What interested you to join our school?
4. Can you tell us about your past experience please?
5. Have you come across any interesting blog or article relating to the profession of
teaching?
6. Tell us a little about your hobbies and interests?
7. Do you have anyone in the family with a teaching background or who is associated with
education?
8. Describe one of the most unpleasant and one of the most rewarding experiences as
teacher?

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1. Do you think teaching in a new school will pose new challenges for you?
2. What are your thoughts on the accountability of teachers these days?
3. Are you open to teaching a different grade level that has never been assigned to you in
the past or a new subject that you have specialized in but do not have an experience of?
4. If you were given an opportunity to be in the education sector performing a different
role that does not involve teaching, would you take up that role or would you continue with
teaching?
5. What is the grade level that you prefer to work with?
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. Can you please elaborate a little on your computer skills?
2. Do you think its fair to use modern aids such as technology in teaching as opposed to the
old teaching methods?
3. Do you prefer the use of technology in your class?
4. In your teaching career, what are the different softwares you had to work with? Which
one did you find more apt and for teaching and why?
5. Do you encourage your students for computer based activities and how do you guide
them through it?
6. What do you have to say about the use of internet in schools? And as students may not
use it wisely, what are the different methods you could suggest to monitor the use of it?
7. If you are to choose between classroom teaching and e-learning, what would you prefer
and why?
8. In your teaching career have you ever observed if integrating technology in classrooms
gathers more attention of the students than otherwise?
9. Do you often use internet to gather information that could be used in your classes?
10. Are you a part of any teachers forum where you and your associates discuss about the
ways to improve the teaching styles and ways to tackle difficult students on the basis of the
extensive experience they may have in their career?

Teaching Questions and Answers:

1 :: Why do you want to teach?
2 :: Why are you applying to this particular teaching course?
3 :: What were the qualities of a teacher you admired?
4 :: What would you find difficult about teaching?
5 :: What have you got to offer as a teacher?
6 :: What experience do you have in schools?
8 :: How would you make your subject interesting to a class of uninterested low ability pupils?
9 :: Would you be able to manage/discipline a group of 35 pupils?
11 :: Do you think that extra-curricular activities are important?
12 :: Testing in schools - is this good or bad?
13 :: Have you any questions about Teaching?
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