Sample Teacher Interview Questions

Background Information:

1.  Tell us about yourself, and specifically what brought you to want to be an English teacher?

1.  Why did you choose to become an English teacher?

2.  Can you describe for us your English teaching experiences?

4.  What does it mean teaching English for you? And why do you want to teach English in this particular district?
7.  As a teacher, can you describe three of your strengths and weaknesses in the English language?
9.  Do you make learning fun for students?  How?

Course exhibition:
1- Can you tell us about your references then how do you use them in forming your courses?
2- What can you do to meet the needs of students who do not speak English?
3.  What are the biggest challenges that you face while teaching English?
4-   Do you usually use any materials that support your lectures?
5- How do you use technology to enrich your lessons?
6- What kinds of materials and supplies would you need to do your job well?

7- What rules do you have for your classroom? (No absences for example) and does it have an impact on student
English learning process?

8- Describe your teaching style and how you accommodate the different learning styles of the students in your
classes?
9- Describe your knowledge and experience with the Informatics’ Students?

10- How would you choose and modify lessons for students?

  Questions for Management Expertise:

1.  Describe the management strategies and techniques you use to maintain an effective classroom
environment

Questions for English Learner Expertise:

1- Describe the evaluation instruments you use to assess student learning.

2-  What are the main skills that you use in your lectures?
3- Does university (informatics department) provide you with the right and the necessary

materials that support your lectures?

4- What knowledge or background do you have in the English language?

5- What strategies do you use to make curriculum meaningful and relevant to students?

Questions the Area Proficiency:

3.  Do you have any plan that may guarantee the continuing your professional growth?

5.  What contributions can you make to university particularly Informatics Department?

Teacher Relationships with Students:

1. What kind of students do you like to work with?

2. What type of students could you teach most effectively (taking into account the mixture of

students, i.e. Algerians and South African ones)?

3.    What kind of tasks do you usually give?

3.    How do you help students to succeed in learning English?

5.    What procedures do you use to evaluate student progress besides using tests?

6.     How can you describe student’s slow English learning?

Instructional Techniques:

1.  Describe any school experience you have had, particularly in student teaching (or in another
teaching position) that has prepared you for a full-time position at the Informatics department.

2.  How would you integrate technology into the curriculum you would teach?

3- Describe the evaluation instruments you use to assess student learning.

4-  What are the main skills that you use in your lectures?