☛ What do you think are the key things that make a good classroom teacher?

☛ What do you consider to be good classroom management skills?

☛ How do you organise your classroom?

☛ How would you organise/manage your class?

☛ What teaching methods do you use?

☛ Would you use group or class teaching?

☛ How do you view your role when children are working in groups?

☛ How do you plan for your teaching?

☛ Talk me through your ideal classroom

☛ Do you see whole class teaching in a chalk and talk format being a part of the school in the future?

☛ How would you feel about working in conjunction with a parallel class teacher?

☛ How do you assess if children are learning?

☛ How do you use curriculum based assessment to assist you in future planning?

☛ Tell me about your system of record keeping

☛ How do you feed back to children about their progress?

☛ How do you decide which children’s work to display?

☛ What would you do if you had a child who wasn’t motivated/interested in learning?

☛ How do you help children with special needs?

☛ Tell me about your experience and achievements of teaching pupils with special needs

☛ How would you help a child experiencing difficulty in reading?

☛ How would you implement an equal opportunities policy in your class?

☛ How do you integrate your class with the school as a whole?

☛ What are your feelings about sharing classes for specialist subjects – teaching your specialist subject to another class, whilst their teacher takes your class in one of your (perhaps) weaker subjects?

☛ How do you organise the school day?

☛ How would you feel about teaching to a rigid, structured timetable?

☛ What are your strengths?

☛ What are your weaknesses?

☛ Tell me about your best lesson.

☛ Tell me about your worst lesson.

☛ How would you react if a senior member of staff queried or criticised some aspect of your teaching?

☛ How do you manage discipline in the classroom?

☛ How do you deal with disruptive behaviour?

☛ You’re setting up a reward system – how would you go about it?

☛ What do you think about homework?

☛ Have you a preference for upper or lower junior age range? Why?

☛ Could you see a problem with teaching a faith that was not your own?

☛ Will you take assemblies?

☛ How would you deal with more able students?

☛ How you do motivate children to achieve in your class?

☛ Give me an example of how you have used differentiation

☛ What would you say/do if a student came to you and said "can I tell you something in secret"

☛ How do you think that the five learning outcomes of Every Child Matters apply to ICT?