⟩ Professional Music Teacher Job Interview Questions
☛ What is your teaching philosophy?
☛ Why do you want to work at our school?
☛ What kind of repertoire would you have our students perform?
☛ What inspires you?
☛ Why did you become a music teacher?
☛ I step into your classroom. What would I see?
☛ If a kid confides to you that his parents are abusive, what would you do?
☛ What skills would your students have by the time they leave your program?
☛ What approach to music education do you most use in your classroom?
☛ What are the first three solfege notes you would teach in Kodaly? (I actually got this question)
☛ What is your opinion about dalcroze?
☛ What is your background with Orff instruments?
☛ What background do you have with teaching instruments?
☛ Would you be comfortable teaching general music?
☛ Would you be comfortable teaching recorder/flutophone/violin/piano?
☛ What is your approach to changing boys' voices?
☛ What is most important to you in a classroom?
☛ What are your classroom management strategies?
☛ How would you redirect a distracted child so they are not disrupting their classmates?
☛ How do you make sure students are all able to succeed? (Differentiation)
☛ What role would formative assessment have in your classroom?
☛ How would you use technology in our classroom?