You have put lots of energy and investigation into your teaching resumes, cover letters, and the job hunt, and now the telephone has finally started to ring. Principals, superintendents, and school district hiring managers are interested in you (based on your excellent teacher resume and top-notch credentials), so now is the opportunity to stand out!
The interview meeting is your key to career success. If you can sell yourself, your personality traits, teaching strengths, and your relevant experience, you have an excellent chance to secure a job offer.
Interviewers ask this question because they want to ascertain how you spend your spare reading time, that you do in fact read, and what your reading interests are. Remember, if you happen to be reading a book at the moment that you don’t think will impress an interviewer, you don’t have to discuss that particular one. You can choose to discuss a book that you’ve read previously if it would be more applicable.
When answering this question, you can choose to go one of two ways. You can go with a book that you are reading for pure enjoyment, say a fictional novel, a biography, or a memoir; or, you can go with a book you may be reading to aid in your professional development…
Even though every teacher has some great teaching abilities, it will take a well trained teacher to ace an interview in this competitive industry. Interviewers are well trained to know which questions to ask; especially if they feel you are the right candidate for the job. From your teacher’s resume, the panel will have beforehand decided on which kinds of questions to ask. Mind you, the aim is not to break the teacher’s spirit, it is to see how well the teacher can perform in difficult circumstances.
Listed below are six of the most difficult interview questions a teacher…
