Here are some possible questions you may be asked. Obviously you can't predict what questions you will be asked but if you work from the six categories mentioned in my example answers, you will cover most of the questions below.
* Why do you want to be a teacher?
* What do you consider the role of a teacher to be?
* How would you maintain effective communication….. staff/students/parents?
* How important is the wider school community?
* What do understand by the term parents as partners in education?
* How do you motivate your students?
* Describe a positive experience you have had as a teacher, which made you feel good about being a teacher?
* Describe the best lesson you gave during a prac. Why was it the best?
* Describe the worst lesson you gave during prac. Why was it worst? What did you learn from this experience?
* Tell me what you know in general terms about the ways in which students learn.
* What are some strategies you have used in the classroom to effectively manage disruptive students?
* What teaching strategies do you believe are most successful in developing language in the writing process?
* Can you give me an example of working as part of a team? What was your contribution to the team and what was the outcome of this exercise?
* Can you tell me about any significant changes to the curriculum which have been introduced recently? How would you inform yourself about curriculum changes?
* Describe a time where you set yourself a challenging goal? What happened? What would you do differently?
* What is your teaching philosophy?
* Have you had to deal with a difficult student and if so how did you resolve the problem?
* What is your behaviour management style?
* What are your strengths and weaknesses?
* What do you believe the term “Student Welfare” to encompass?
* What would you do in the initial set up of your classroom to structure it for effective/explicit teaching?
* How would you involve a learning support team?
* Are you aware of the Department’s Child Protection Policy?” and “What does it require of teachers?” to which the most important thing to answer is that you have a duty of care to your students and will report any suspected cases of child neglect of abuse to your Principal.
* What implications flow from the assessment of students’ work?
* What prompted you to study education?
* Why do you want to become a teacher?
* What would you do if you got a full time position next year and you had to start in one week?
* How would you organise yourself?
* Why do want to work for DET?
* What do you consider important when programming for a class?
* Tell me about a time when you had to communicate information to a group of people. How would you get to know your fellow teachers?
* How do you go about meeting new people? How would you go about forming a relationship with your new class?
* Tell us about a time where you’ve demonstrated leadership qualities. How do these relate to your effectiveness as a teacher?
* Is there anything else you wanted to add about yourself?
* Have you planned and implemented a unit of work before?
* Many classes today are mixed ability- that is they contain students with a range of abilities. What teaching strategies would you use to effectively cater for the wide range of abilities you are likely to encounter?
* What are some of the classroom assessment practices or evaluation strategies that you would use to assess the educational outcomes of your students?
* What role do you see parents as having in the educational process?
* How would you incorporate literacy as a priority in your teaching (of your subject) (across the curriculum) Can you give me an example of innovative teaching practices you have observed during your prac experiences?
* What teaching strategies do you believe are most successful in developing language in the writing process?
* Why do you want to be a teacher?
* What do you consider the role of a teacher to be?
* How would you maintain effective communication….. staff/students/parents?
* How important is the wider school community?
* What do understand by the term parents as partners in education?
* How do you motivate your students?
* Describe a positive experience you have had as a teacher, which made you feel good about being a teacher?
* Describe the best lesson you gave during a prac. Why was it the best?
* Describe the worst lesson you gave during prac. Why was it worst? What did you learn from this experience?
* Tell me what you know in general terms about the ways in which students learn.
* What are some strategies you have used in the classroom to effectively manage disruptive students?
* What teaching strategies do you believe are most successful in developing language in the writing process?
* Can you give me an example of working as part of a team? What was your contribution to the team and what was the outcome of this exercise?
* Can you tell me about any significant changes to the curriculum which have been introduced recently? How would you inform yourself about curriculum changes?
* Describe a time where you set yourself a challenging goal? What happened? What would you do differently?
* What is your teaching philosophy?
* Have you had to deal with a difficult student and if so how did you resolve the problem?
* What is your behaviour management style?
* What are your strengths and weaknesses?
* What do you believe the term “Student Welfare” to encompass?
* What would you do in the initial set up of your classroom to structure it for effective/explicit teaching?
* How would you involve a learning support team?
* Are you aware of the Department’s Child Protection Policy?” and “What does it require of teachers?” to which the most important thing to answer is that you have a duty of care to your students and will report any suspected cases of child neglect of abuse to your Principal.
* What implications flow from the assessment of students’ work?
* What prompted you to study education?
* Why do you want to become a teacher?
* What would you do if you got a full time position next year and you had to start in one week?
* How would you organise yourself?
* Why do want to work for DET?
* What do you consider important when programming for a class?
* Tell me about a time when you had to communicate information to a group of people. How would you get to know your fellow teachers?
* How do you go about meeting new people? How would you go about forming a relationship with your new class?
* Tell us about a time where you’ve demonstrated leadership qualities. How do these relate to your effectiveness as a teacher?
* Is there anything else you wanted to add about yourself?
* Have you planned and implemented a unit of work before?
* Many classes today are mixed ability- that is they contain students with a range of abilities. What teaching strategies would you use to effectively cater for the wide range of abilities you are likely to encounter?
* What are some of the classroom assessment practices or evaluation strategies that you would use to assess the educational outcomes of your students?
* What role do you see parents as having in the educational process?
* How would you incorporate literacy as a priority in your teaching (of your subject) (across the curriculum) Can you give me an example of innovative teaching practices you have observed during your prac experiences?
* What teaching strategies do you believe are most successful in developing language in the writing process?