Interview Questions Flashcards
What do you want to accomplish as an administrator?
- Build Relationships
- School Connectedness (faculty/staff/students/community)
- Increase achievement through improving teaching and learning
- Build a positive school culture
- Reinforce 4 Non Essentials (Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe, Work Together)
- Develop PBIS (falcon tix) at the beginning of the year to promote character/clean campus
to determine teacher/student strengths?
- Test scores (Teachers and Students)
- Teacher “fit” with students
- communication and social skills
- patience, responsibility, tolerance.
- ability to solve conflicts, emotional intelligence.
- creativity and enthusiasm for teaching.
- ability to explain difficult things in a simple way.
- ability to connect with children (or with older students), on a personal level
- Student’s Creativity.
- Enthusiasm.
- Honesty.
- Humor.
- Kindness.
- Leadership.
- Listening.
administrative training, expertise, and leadership qualities that you believe distinguish you from other candidates for this position.
- Spanish
- Facilitated VBS for 3 years
- Sunday school coordinator for large congregation
- Office manager for 19 years
- upper elementary, middle, and high school teaching experience
- 6 years of AVID experience as teacher and co-coordinator
- Math teacher for 16 years (7 middle & 9 high)
- Math Dept chair (large comprehensive HS)
- 7th grade level lead
- Passion for leading and coaching (2 student teachers this last school year)
- Passion for lifelong learning (9 years and counting in college)
- researcher (if I don’t know, I’ll research it)
- Hard worker
What is your vision for teaching and learning?
- Student centered campus (teachers as facilitators)
- Building relationships and connections
- Distributed leadership
- Rigorous
- 4 Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity
threat to your school is posted on social media. Completely describe your course of action.
- Investigate threat
- Inform Principal/District office/SRO
- Call student(s) in if needed depending on severity
- Don’t take any chances
- Work in conjunction with the SRO/District
- Update on a needs to know basis
- Follow up
- Inform DO
Principal’s role in the IEP process?
- # 1 Protect the district
- Be in attendance
- Take notes if needed
- Make sure the ed specialist is seeing that all of the student’s needs/accommodations are being met
confidentially to report another staff member is behaving inappropriately and made a sexual suggestive comment to him/her. How would you proceed?
- That then becomes not confidential
- Call HR and coordinate
- Call in the other staff to ask
- Take necessary steps
- Meet with principal
Expansion of the use of technology is an area of emphasis. How do you currently use technology in your professional role? What are some ways you’ve supported teachers in the use of classroom technology?
- virtual teacher
- Flipped classroom
- Screencastify
- Google Suite
- Teacher website always up to date
- COVID-19 digital learning
- Edulastic
- Technology within curriculum
- Quizlet
to establish a positive school climate?
- Build relationships with students, teachers, classified staff, parents
- Be highly visible
- Be approachable
- School Connectedness
- Greet students during before school, after school, passing periods, lunches
- Not a person goes by on campus (student, teacher, parent) that doesn’t get greeted by me
- Classroom visits when possible
- Attend school and community functions/events
- Open door policy
most important attribute of an effective assistant principal?
- Relationships
- Student - getting to know their names, interests, connect
- Teacher - making them feel supported
- Classified staff - Taking time to let the people on campus know that they are appreciated (walking down to the library and cafeteria example)
- Being fair but firm
students who suffered either academically, socially, or emotionally. In what ways were you able to seek out support on behalf of these students?
- Sophia Munoz
- Josh patton
Ongoing, timely communication is critical in a high school setting. How do you intend to communicate with staff members as well as the student body, and parents?
- Via telephone or in person for critical issues
- Emails (timely due to business background)
- Email and/or phone blasts
- In person with students
philosophy on high school discipline? Can you please share a difficult discipline problem that you had to deal with and how you resolved it?
- They are still kids - they will make mistakes and have silly errors in judgment
- Each situation is unique and will have different outcomes
- Restorative justice (building relationships, repairing harm, and consequences IF necessary)
- Jonathan Cervera
various teacher evaluation models. When evaluating general teacher performance, what are the key components you would look for in a well-designed and implemented lesson?
Teacher observations (needs an update though - video?!) Framework Model - Charlotte Danielson (more focus on discussion between teacher and admin, reflection, and evidence-based feedback) Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation model (standards-based planning and instruction, conditions for learning, and professional responsibilities) How do you know if they got it? What do you do if they don’t? Differentiation
what personal skills and/or strengths do you possess that make you a “match” for this position at this school?
- Years of mathematics instruction
- problem solver by nature
- age
- Organization
- Personable
- Approachable
- Research schools individually to make connections to answer this question