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3) Delivery of Instruction
Discuss how you adjust lessons to benefit different student learning styles.
● Describe a time when a student was not interested in a lesson you were teaching.
● How did you keep the student involved in the lesson?

4) Additional Professional Responsibilities
Provide an example of a time you reached out to parents for assistance in improving their
child’s academic progress.
● How did you strategize and collaborate with the parents?
● How was the student’s academic progress impacted?

5) Professional Growth
Describe a specific example of how you have utilized what you have learned through a
professional development activity to improve your instructional skills.

Closing Questions:
When concluding an interview, it is important to provide the candidate with a chance to share
additional job-related knowledge, skills, and abilities that he/she may have that were not covered
during the interview, and give them the opportunity to ask any additional information regarding
the school or the expected responsibilities of the position. As a sample, two concluding questions
are provided below.

1) Additional Qualifications
Now that we have completed the interview, is there any additional information you would
like to share with us regarding your qualifications for this positions?

2) Candidate Questions
Do you have any questions for us? As a good practice when closing out an interview, make
sure to thank the candidate for their interest in the position and the school, shake their hand,
and give them an estimated timeline for results. This practice helps to reduce the stress of
the post-interview waiting period and it leaves the candidate with a positive impression of
your school and the interview process.

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