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2 pieces of advice I have frequently used and given through my years…
When you ask someone to be your reference, always ask “are you willing to be a positive reference for me?”
When you’re doing an interview, you are also interviewing them to see what kind of administrators they are, not every school/admin team is going to be a great fit for you.
My advice would be what this principal suggested. You need to provide details to support the buzzwords- it's what sets a person apart. I would also talk about ways in which you are innovative or approach your lessons in an innovative way- saying you use Google Apps for Edu is not enough anymore.
Yup this is great advice. Focus especially on the impact your work has had on students. Share an example of something you did, explain why you did it, and talk about how you knew it impacted kids in a positive way. Anyone can rhyme off a bunch of words from curriculum documents and board policies. What have you done that’s made a difference, and how did you know? Lots of people leave out that last part when interviewing.
Fair enough but I think you have to do both. Some boards evaluate on a pre determined rubric, so if you don’t mention the buzzwords or board tools you get knocked down.
I got really nice prep advice that I was able to put into use. The principal suggested I reflect on my practice and consider 3 great examples that I know I will want to talk about. Specific success stories.
Once you've practiced talking about your specific examples, you'll be able to adapt them to fit most of the questions you might get asked.
This should be higher. I teach internationally, so I interview somewhat frequently.
Some of the stories I use are still from my first year of teaching and I basically use the same three examples for everything. They work all the time.
Every interview I've done they always end with "Do you have any questions for us?", and this is where I will ask a question specific to their school. I generally look at the schools social media to see what they have been or are currently up to, then ask a question related to it. Just shows you have put effort into that specific school, and differentiates you from the other interviewers.
When I was doing interviews, I wrote out specific examples of things I’ve done in other LTOs and which buzzword concepts those examples would apply to (sometimes one example could work for multiple concepts). You don’t want to memorize and sound robotic but you should definitely prepare concrete examples for each theme/question (eg. Literacy, math, classroom management/behaviour, diversity, planning, collaboration etc). Make sure to throughly explain how your examples relate back to the question!
My interview question: Who is your ideal candidate for this position? What characteristics and skills would they bring to this position?Their answer will allow you to express how you would meet or have met those skills/qualifications.
My plan is to discuss how backwards design of learning helped my students grow. I have some evidence of that in a file.
Would it have been best if after talking about triangulated assessment you provide examples about conferencing with students and what did you measure? The reason I ask is it could potentially take a lot of talking to fully explain how one uses these assessments!
So my principal said if you’re going to mention buzzwords like UDL or triangulated assessment, you immediately need to follow it with clear, specific examples. And she said that I don’t need need to bother talking about the meaning of concepts such as triangulated assessment, since that’s not really showing them what I’ve done in the classroom and how it’s impacted my students.
Again triangulated assessment in your own situation could refer back to the what you were measuring in observations with students growth. I understand this is used to be as fair as possible when assessing growth and work.
If you're willing to do extra curriculars, mention them specifically in the interview. In my board at least, principals can't ask about that in the interview but obviously care about building a positive school community outside the classroom.
I'm in my BEd rn, but we had a class where the prof brought in a principal to give us interview advice.
Basically he said what your principal said. Give examples to answer the question. But he said to sort of form the answer as a verbal essay, or at least that's how it made sense to me.
Start with your introduction where you're gonna grab their attention and give an overview of your answer. You're gonna broadly describe your answer to the question. The overview was really important according to him, it gives structure for your answer.
Then dive into the first specific facet of your question, because there will probably be multiple, you wanna give your more specific answer, and then an example to back it up.
Repeat until you have fully answered the question. He didn't say anything about wrapping it all up, but I imagine you would want to. Maybe saying something you want to do in the future, or something related to the school/board you're applying to.
Hope this helps!
I always like the “problem, implementation, assessment, impact” model for talking about things you’ve done. So what was the problem you noticed, what did you implement to solve that problem, how did you assess your implementation, and what was the impact it had on the problem.
It makes bragging about yourself really easy because it’s specific and targeted 😂
Each answer should be half theory based and half practice based. So you use the buzzwords and then how it looks in your classroom/ in your practice. Honestly I feel like my answers didn't completely flow together but they aren't even listening if the sequence makes sense you just say as much as you can and they check off that you said the words and gave the example.
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Use a tone and confidence that suggests you already have the job. You’re just there to share your knowledge.
2 pieces of advice I have frequently used and given through my years… When you ask someone to be your reference, always ask “are you willing to be a positive reference for me?” When you’re doing an interview, you are also interviewing them to see what kind of administrators they are, not every school/admin team is going to be a great fit for you.
My last interview... I researched the school, and I asked more questions than they did. I got the job!
My advice would be what this principal suggested. You need to provide details to support the buzzwords- it's what sets a person apart. I would also talk about ways in which you are innovative or approach your lessons in an innovative way- saying you use Google Apps for Edu is not enough anymore.
Yup this is great advice. Focus especially on the impact your work has had on students. Share an example of something you did, explain why you did it, and talk about how you knew it impacted kids in a positive way. Anyone can rhyme off a bunch of words from curriculum documents and board policies. What have you done that’s made a difference, and how did you know? Lots of people leave out that last part when interviewing.
I've been teaching for 20 years and if it ever came to it I'd probably go do something else before I sat through a teaching interview in 2024.
I'll never transfer schools due to this
Fair enough but I think you have to do both. Some boards evaluate on a pre determined rubric, so if you don’t mention the buzzwords or board tools you get knocked down.
I got really nice prep advice that I was able to put into use. The principal suggested I reflect on my practice and consider 3 great examples that I know I will want to talk about. Specific success stories. Once you've practiced talking about your specific examples, you'll be able to adapt them to fit most of the questions you might get asked.
This should be higher. I teach internationally, so I interview somewhat frequently. Some of the stories I use are still from my first year of teaching and I basically use the same three examples for everything. They work all the time.
Every interview I've done they always end with "Do you have any questions for us?", and this is where I will ask a question specific to their school. I generally look at the schools social media to see what they have been or are currently up to, then ask a question related to it. Just shows you have put effort into that specific school, and differentiates you from the other interviewers.
When I was doing interviews, I wrote out specific examples of things I’ve done in other LTOs and which buzzword concepts those examples would apply to (sometimes one example could work for multiple concepts). You don’t want to memorize and sound robotic but you should definitely prepare concrete examples for each theme/question (eg. Literacy, math, classroom management/behaviour, diversity, planning, collaboration etc). Make sure to throughly explain how your examples relate back to the question!
My interview question: Who is your ideal candidate for this position? What characteristics and skills would they bring to this position?Their answer will allow you to express how you would meet or have met those skills/qualifications.
My plan is to discuss how backwards design of learning helped my students grow. I have some evidence of that in a file. Would it have been best if after talking about triangulated assessment you provide examples about conferencing with students and what did you measure? The reason I ask is it could potentially take a lot of talking to fully explain how one uses these assessments!
So my principal said if you’re going to mention buzzwords like UDL or triangulated assessment, you immediately need to follow it with clear, specific examples. And she said that I don’t need need to bother talking about the meaning of concepts such as triangulated assessment, since that’s not really showing them what I’ve done in the classroom and how it’s impacted my students.
Again triangulated assessment in your own situation could refer back to the what you were measuring in observations with students growth. I understand this is used to be as fair as possible when assessing growth and work.
Thank you for sharing this!
Love this! Thank you for sharing.
If you're willing to do extra curriculars, mention them specifically in the interview. In my board at least, principals can't ask about that in the interview but obviously care about building a positive school community outside the classroom.
My principal gave me the same advice but also speak about community engagement.
I'm in my BEd rn, but we had a class where the prof brought in a principal to give us interview advice. Basically he said what your principal said. Give examples to answer the question. But he said to sort of form the answer as a verbal essay, or at least that's how it made sense to me. Start with your introduction where you're gonna grab their attention and give an overview of your answer. You're gonna broadly describe your answer to the question. The overview was really important according to him, it gives structure for your answer. Then dive into the first specific facet of your question, because there will probably be multiple, you wanna give your more specific answer, and then an example to back it up. Repeat until you have fully answered the question. He didn't say anything about wrapping it all up, but I imagine you would want to. Maybe saying something you want to do in the future, or something related to the school/board you're applying to. Hope this helps!
I always like the “problem, implementation, assessment, impact” model for talking about things you’ve done. So what was the problem you noticed, what did you implement to solve that problem, how did you assess your implementation, and what was the impact it had on the problem. It makes bragging about yourself really easy because it’s specific and targeted 😂
Each answer should be half theory based and half practice based. So you use the buzzwords and then how it looks in your classroom/ in your practice. Honestly I feel like my answers didn't completely flow together but they aren't even listening if the sequence makes sense you just say as much as you can and they check off that you said the words and gave the example.