► What skills should a teacher have?

► What makes you think you would be a good teacher?

► Why should we take you rather than the other candidates who have applied?

► What qualities do you have that will make you a good teacher?

► What skills do you need to work on to improve?

► What skills could you bring to a school?

► Describe a situation when have you had to use your initiative.

► Why will you be able to handle the pressures? What is it about you that will enable you to cope with the stress and demands of this profession which has a high turnover?

► On the scheme you will always be under pressure. How will you organise/cope? What experiences have you had to prepare you for this?

► Explain why you think it is important to show enthusiasm and interest when working with young people?

► Explain how you think your most recent working experience will prove useful in your teaching career.

► Can you tell me about a time when you went to someone for advice, and how you reacted to this advice.

► Other than [Primark and your time in schools] what other experience do you have working with young people?

► What skills do you think you have that make you particularly good at handling people?

► How would you like to be described by the pupils you teach?

► Choose any topic and say how you would go about teaching it