In Charge Computer Science Department

☛ How will you ensure that outstanding teaching and learning practice is embedded across your department?

☛ What strategies would you use to help learners who are underachieving in a) your classes and b) classes taught by other teachers in your department?

☛ Describe your vision of the ideal weekly department meeting.

☛ How would you respond to a parent who contacts you to express concern about the teaching of a teacher in your department?

☛ What are the most important functions in a HOD role and how would you prioritise them?

☛ What strategies would you use to ensure that the most able students taking your subject excel and are stretched?

☛ What are your views on centralising all the department resources so that every teacher uses the same resources and sets the same homework / tests?

☛ If you were to write a "mission statement" for your department, what might it be?

☛ Here are some possible staff management scenarios:

☛ You have a teacher in your department approaching retirement who doesn't want to change the way that he/she teaches, but parents and students have complained. How do you respond to parents? How do you broach the subject with the teacher in question?

☛ You have an NQT in your department to whom you need to act as a mentor. They are struggling with classroom management and maintaining control. How might you support them?

☛ An internal candidate has also applied for this HOD post, but has not been appointed. How do you get off on the right footing at the start of the new school year?

☛ Where do you see yourself career-wise in 5 years time?

☛ Describe your current line of research and explain its clinical relevance. What aspects of your research are innovative?

☛ What do you believe is a researcher's obligation for dissemination of results?

☛ What experience and success have you had in acquiring research grant support?

☛ What research equipment, personnel, and supply requirements do you have?

☛ Describe the courses you have taught by summarizing the course content and assignments required.

☛ Explain how you grade students' written work. How have you handled conflicts with students over grades and assignments?

☛ How would you handle an episode of academic misconduct?

☛ Define "integrity" and explain at least two ways that you have demonstrated this trait in your research and teaching.

☛ How have your prior jobs contributed to your professional skills and attitude?

☛ Why are you interested in a position at this university?

☛ What strengths and expertise will you contribute to our department?

☛ In what ways do you feel you can lend support to your colleagues?

☛ List three areas of weakness that you wish to improve on.

☛ How will you be a role model for our students? In your opinion, what personal and professional traits are desirable for mentoring students?

☛ Can they relate to age group of the students

☛ Can they communicate?

☛ Do they like to learn? Are they excited about learning? Are they still actively learning?

☛ Are they disciplined? With themselves and in the classroom. Can they mange their time?

☛ Not only can they teach but do they like to teach?

☛ Do they have high expectations?

☛ Do they know the tools (Windows, MacOS , IOS, Android)

☛ Can they program?

☛ Do they know the software?

☛ Can they handle large classes

☛ Is there 1-on-1 coaching

☛ Can they make a lecture interesting?

☛ Are they flexible in classroom environment

☛ Are there self-paced classes and can they work with that?

☛ What approaches will you bring to the classroom to make this subject matter worth learning?

☛ Why is Grace Hopper worth knowing about?

☛ What do you do when you've got a kid who, despite repeated attempts, just doesn't get it?

☛ What was your favorite part in the movie "The Imitation Game"?

☛ Are you ready / willing to share your "war stories" with the class, to help humanize the subject?

☛ In your opinion, how does CS apply to everyone's every day lives?

☛ What does "rigorous computer science curriculum" mean to you?

☛ How would you implement a rigorous computer science curriculum while ensuring that students who have no prior computing experience can have a class that is both rigorous and accessible?

☛ What are the most important topics to teach the beginning computer science student and why?

An IEP is an "individualized education plan." Students with special needs will be given an IEP, or a list of things that you must do when teaching the child. An IEP might include anything from "additional time for testing" to "needs all test questions read aloud" to "needs to use braille textbook." How do you ensure you're meeting the needs of a student with an IEP? First, read the IEP carefully. If you have questions, consult a special education teacher, counselor, or other staff member who can help you. Then, you just make sure you follow the requirements on the IEP word for word. When necessary, you may be asked to attend a meeting in which you can make suggestions for updating the IEP. Your goal, and the goal of the IEP, is to make sure the student has whatever he or she needs to be successful in your class.

These can help the teacher to leave his impact and make out maximum of it

☛ Use a pleasant and normal tone while communicating with the student.

☛ Start delivering lecture only when student is ready to receive from you

☛ Try to use non-verbal communication or hand signals, this will help the student to take an interest in what you are saying. Sometimes non-verbal communication says more than your verbal thing

☛ Address immediately on any unpleasant or unsatisfactory situation with students, always approach student as they need help or have some doubt.

☛ Bored students are equally harassing as troubled students. Always have an interactive session and well-designed engaging lesson

☛ Organize the class outside the classroom sometimes like in open ground, it will change the ambience

To reduce drop out in middle school various steps that should be considered are

☛ Link student interest with learning

☛ Provide them appropriate environment for studying like vary classroom format day to day

☛ Give students few options in topics to study or research, and make an attempt to link the material or topics to everyday life, for example, relate some outdoor activities with maths problem

☛ Use map, a pictorial diagram, power point presentation and visual image to make topic more comprehensive and less boring

☛ Teachers should bring belief in their students about how the project or some course can benefit them in their career prospectus

☛ One to one conversation with students about their liking towards any activities it could be sports, music, painting, etc.

You use lots of positive reinforcement. You are firm, but you don't yell. You have appropriate consequences for inappropriate behavior. You have your classroom rules posted clearly on the walls. You set common routines that students follow. You adhere to the school's discipline guidelines. Also, emphasize that you suspect discipline problems will be minimal because your lessons are very interesting and engaging to students. Don't tell the interviewer that you “send kids to the principal's office” whenever there is a problem. You should be able to handle most discipline problems on your own. Only students who have committed very serious behavior problems should be sent to the office.

☛ Teacher should not humiliate student, especially in front of others

☛ They should not judge a student on the basis of their academic records and marking

☛ Teacher should not give low grade to the student due to their personal strife

☛ Teacher should not ask the student to cover everything on their own, when they miss a class; their assistance is required

☛ Teacher should not look students grasping power as an equal to his/her, and expect them to learn everything real quick

☛ Teacher should not teach a lesson as if he/she teaching to himself. He must involve students by taking small breaks in between lessons and ask them if they needed any help

☛ Teacher should not try to dominant student, in fact; they should remain calm and be at receiving end

☛ Teacher should not be over-demanding and understand the potential of the fellow student before allotting any task