Interviews Sep 22

Question 1

“Tell us about yourself” / Personal

Answer 1

Age
Sibling and nieces etc.
Runner
NRL
Dancer
Degree

Question 2

Why do you like teaching?

Answer 2

Creating learning experiences
Make a difference in the perception of education
Growth of students
Improve overall effort
Being organised

Question 3

From experience, what are the most rewarding and challenging experiences? What have you learnt from this to support professional wellbeing?

Answer 3

Rewarding - ss who believe in themselves and aren’t afraid of mistakes
Challenges - support ss with high needs
Time for myself

Question 4

Name three professional capabilities that make you a good teacher.

Answer 4

Organisation skills
-Pre-planning, 6 p’s
Interpersonal skills
-Communication
Flexibility
-Changing lessons on the fly
-Accepting when a lesson failed

Question 5

How would you cater for indigenous students? 2 strategies.

Answer 5

Consistent communication with the parents
Understand the impact of their background on their learning

Question 6

Can you please describe how your faith impacts you in terms of your personal and professional life?

Answer 6

I uphold the values of the Church
Take the time for mass
reflection, gratitude, and a pause
Guides behaviour management
personal bleeds into the classroom
Connecting with ss and their families by talking about the gospel from the weekend

Question 7

If we walked into your classroom, what would it look like?

Answer 7

There is speaking
Loud
Student centred
Students asking questions
Students has work on the wall related
I ensure that it is safe by using classroom contracts that are revisited

Question 8

How do children learn?

Answer 8

I believe children learn best when …
Safe environment
Feel included
Have an entry point and a high ceiling for challenge

Question 9

What are your responsibilities in regards to the child protection policy? What is your duty of care?

Answer 9

Ensure safety, welfare and wellbeing
Facilitate educational and spiritual development
Mandatory reporters

Question 10

Are you a mandatory reporter? What does that mean?

Answer 10

“report suspected child abuse and neglect to government authorities”
At risk of significant harm
Basic physical needs not being met
Not arranging medical attention
Risk of sexual or physical abuse
Emotional abuse
Domestic violence

Question 11

How would you create a safe learning environment?

Answer 11

Clear
Equitable
Student-centred classroom contracts
Trustworthy

Question 12

What are your responsibilities in upholding the code of ethics and code of conduct?

Answer 12

upholding the teachings and values of the Catholic Church and to avoid by word, action or public lifestyle, behaviours which are contrary to those teachings and values

Question 13

Tell us about a disruptive student, how did you respond and what strategies were implemented?

Answer 13

Polite
Remove themself and self-regulate
Come back and discuss the behaviour
Ask the ss what is their side of the story

Question 14

Differentiation

Answer 14

Open-ended questions
Having lots of options
Utilising the classroom walls
Bump-it-up walls
Rubrics
Thinker keys
Feedback loops

Question 15

How would you involve a learning support team?

Answer 15

Keeping them in the ‘loop’
Asking for their advice
Observations - both of the ss and me

Question 16

Authentic learning principles

Answer 16

Relevant, Purposeful and engaging
Real life
Fits into my why of teaching - we learn and come to school for a reason
Builds on prior experience, personal interests and innate potential
Critical thinking
Challenging
Making connections
Sharing with others
Encourage reflection and risk-taking

Question 17

How would you assess or differentiate assessments?

Answer 17

Oral opportunity
Layered tasks
Using Bloom’s taxonomy with the verbs and nouns

Question 18

How do you assess and report?
How would you use assessment in the classroom?

Answer 18

Pre-assessment as diagnostic
Observations and discussions as formative
Post-assessment as summative
- Making sure to accommodate for the learners needs
Report - mixture of these to see how the ss has met the outcomes

Question 19

How would you involve parents in assessment?

Answer 19

Start of year form - how do they learn best
Being transparent in PT meetings about how you have assessed

Question 20

How important do you think assessment is and why is it important?

Answer 20

Incredibly
All assessment
Shows you where the ss needs support that can affect other learning areas
E.g. poor comprehension skills will affect maths

Question 21

What teaching strategies do you use? How do they cater for individual needs?

Answer 21

Learning intentions and success criteria - clear and visible learning
Understanding what works for the ss and supporting them e.g. with Ava D
Gradual release of responsibility - joint writing →independant
Collaboration

Question 22

If a class (or some students) has had no improvement over three years, what two strategies would you use to improve their learning?

Answer 22

Change the type of learning environment e.g. if it is very collaborative make learning more targeted and explicit
Strong diagnostic and summative assessment to truly understand where the gaps are in learning e.g. is their place value knowledge low?

Question 23

What does 21st century pedagogy mean to you? What two strategies would you use to achieve the goals of this concept?

Answer 23

Skills for living in a multifaceted world: Active and engaged
Ways of working: Communicating, Collaborating
Ways of thinking: Critical and creative thinking, Problem solving, Decision making
1- collaboration 2- transfer of skills

Question 24

What would you do in the initial set up of your classroom to structure if for effective/ explicit teaching?

Answer 24

Clear LI and SC

Question 25

What technology do you use and how?
How do you use ICT in the classroom?
What are the benefits and some challenges of using ICT in the classroom?

Answer 25

Lesson slides
Data walls
Ss to develop research abilities

Question 26

Choose a stage and explain what outcomes a student should know.
Choose a stage and explain what a student should know in English and Maths by the end of that stage.

Answer 26

English - communication information learnt in a variety of settings, responding to situations, listen to gather ideas, effect and purpose of spoken texts, independently read, view and respond to familiar and challenging texts, author purposes, point of view, well-structured texts
Maths - use efficient strategies, terminology to link and describe ideas, check their work, five-digit numbers, informal and formal a+s strategies, 10 x 10 M + D facts, fractions and decimals up to 2 decimals, describe number patterns, estimate measure and compare measurement, convert, split and combine 2D shapes, compare angles, collect and organize data

Question 27

How would you embed literacy and numeracy? Why are they important?

Answer 27

Literacy - oral and written comprehension. Visual images to support understanding
Numeracy - research in writing, time in science
Important - skills are interchangeable and build capacity as a member of society

Question 28

What teaching strategies do you believe are most successful in developing language in the writing process?

Answer 28

Shared reading
building the field
Word lists
Independent reading - ss can actually learn more vocabulary when reading on their own

Question 29

What to consider when planning a unit of work/ what strategies do you use when designing a unit?
What to consider when planning and designing learning sequences?

Answer 29

End goal
Intentional learning intentions
Targeted assessments that assess these big ideas
Create better learning experiences knowing exactly what they need to learn
E.g. an angles unit designed by a colleague focused too much on stage 3 content. I stripped it back to the stage 2 content and created more engaging lessons
Planning english with the end goal in mind

Question 30

How do you deal with family connections an parents?

Answer 30

Respectfully
Put in effort to build strong connections at the beginning of the year
Ensure that you get to know their child from their lens as best as possible

Question 31

What strategies would you use to involve families in learning? Why is this important? How has this been successful?

Answer 31

Homework / food for thought
Asking ss to go home and talk to their families about their learning
Clear curriculum newsletter
Parents have had RE reflection time to connect through faith

Question 32

What role do you see parents as having in the educational process?

Answer 32

A lens that gives a snapshot of what life experiences and backgrounds they come from to give them the best change of learning

Question 33

Why is professional learning important?
How important do you find professional engagement? How do you plan on engaging with this?

Answer 33

Gives us new strategies to try with our different classes - each year will be different
Keeps our practice refined and purposeful
At the students and families best interest

Question 34

How I create a safe and supportive learning environment both inside and outside of the classroom?

Answer 34

Strong relationship building at the beginning of the year
Both grit and growth mindset
Gaining mutual trust and respect

Question 35

What can you bring to the school?

Answer 35

Strong organisational skills
Passion for organisation
Dance
Grit mindset

Question 36

Tell us about a time when you have demonstrated leadership qualities. How do these relate to your effectiveness as a teacher?

Answer 36

Leading dance
SPBL team
Able to juggle and organise multiple tasks at once
Show my commitment to leading ss to success
Making decisions in the best interest of the school and ss
putting up my hand and saying yes - jumping right in

Question 37

What is a weakness of yours?

Answer 37

beginning teacher and i cant know everything

ask questions

Question 38

How do you accomodate for Newman ss?

Answer 38

rubrics
open-ended questions
peer-feedback

Question 39

Learning intentions and success crtieria?

Answer 39

make learning visible and clear
not hiding anything
relate to as adults
success criteria gives a clear pathway to achieved the learning intention
87% class grew, 10% stayed where they are, and 3% were away