Interview Guide for Benchmarking Activity from the 3 International Schools

A. Virtual or Online Learning - Shiela Redondo and Rechyl M. Lusan

1. What teaching style do you use in an online class?

2. How do you encourage students to participate? How do you motivate and engage learners in an online
discussion?

3. How do you ensure equal participation in an online discussion?

4. How do you prepare students for the real world through online learning?

5. How do you handle students' misbehavior? How do you support students with emotional and behavioral
disorders in an online environment?

6. What is the usual flow of the lesson in an online class?

7. What online applications do you use?

8. What strategies do you use to support different learning styles of the students?

9. What interventions do you do to support struggling students?

10. What preparations did the teachers undergo in preparation for online class?

11. What effective strategies in online teaching do you find most effective? Least effective? Expand your
answer.

12. What difficulties did they encounter and what measures were done to solve them?

13. What advice can you give to those teachers who have difficulties in an online class?

B. Leadership and management strategies - Annie B. Verchez

1. What are the most valuable characteristics and professional practices of school leaders in your school which
set them apart from other educational leaders? How effective are they?

2. Give and describe the conventional/non-conventional leadership and management styles which work best
for your school? Why do they work well?

3. In terms of visibility of leaders: How often do employees/faculty see your leaders? Are their presence felt by
the school/community? How do your leaders help the entire institutional community meet goals and succeed?

4. In terms of social responsibility of the company: How do the school leaders guide the members in doing
what is right for the organization and for the communities they serve?

5. In terms of inclusiveness: In what ways do your leaders set the tone from the top of the organization and
use their voices to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace?

6. Share examples of projects/ programs your school has done to benefit your place and community.

7. In terms of decision making, what management/leadership style do your leaders employ? Is it a bottom-up
or top-down approach? What makes it effective for your institution?

8. What makes your institution’s vision, mission, goals unique from others?

9. In terms of professional development, what is/are the exceptional programs/projects/trainings implemented

by your leaders for school’s human resource or manpower?
10. How will you rate your leaders’ initiatives in promoting and supporting professional development activities
(e.g., workshops, seminars, trainings, advance courses) planned and organized by the institution itself and/or
other groups?

11. Do your managers have everyone’s best interest in mind? Are they student-centered, teacher-centered,
administration-centered? If not, what takes priority in school’s planning, making decisions, project
implementation?

12. What are considered priority areas in your School Improvement Plan in terms of leadership and
management areas?

13. How can your school’s educational managers improve themselves as leaders?

C. School Governance - Noel Quidor

Student’s Welfare

1. How will your school identify the socio-economic status of your students?

2. What are the interventions of the school if the students belong to the poor sector of the society?

3. Describe to us the home visitation procedure in case the students are irregularly attending classes?

4. Tell us the management procedure of the school when troubles between students happen inside the
school?

5. What interventions program do you have to address the students’ poor performance?

6. Can you discuss the methods of the school for passing the students even if they are not attending
classes regularly considering the national policy about “no students must be left behind”?

B. Parent – teacher association and other stake holders

1. In the Philippines, Department of Education has a program called “Brigada Eskwela” , do you also
have a program similar to this one? How is it being done in your school?

2. What are the programs in your school that require parents’ active participation?

3. What are the roles of the private sector in support to school programs?

4. How will you assess the participations of parents and stakeholders to the physical progress of the
school?

C. Faculty in School Development

1. How does the Faculty Club function in the development of the school?

2. What are the rules of the school in the professional growth of the teachers?

3. How will you assess the relationship of the administration to the faculty members?
4. How will you describe the relationship of teachers to students and vice-versa?

5. Can you share with us the scheduling of subjects per teacher?

D. Quality Assurance Mechanisms - Lorenel Interino

1. What do you consider as your unique signature quality as an educational institution?

2. What do you pride yourself about? (take note of the responses and try to break

them down to categories—academic, management, etc.)

3. How do you ensure that this specific goal/reputation is maintained?

Do you have an established mechanism in ensuring that the school goals

on each and every aspect of your operation is kept/maintained/assured, along---
- Academic—
- Structure—
- Management/Operations
- Community Linkages/Network
- Student Affairs

4. What do you consider to be amongst your best practices in ensuring:

quality teaching and learning,
management and operations, etc.?

Are there specific/standard policies and programs in placed that institutionalized

these practices? Follow up questions on:
admission,testing of learners;
placement of teachers and admin,
special assignments given , any special mechanism?
Teachers’ training?
Added enrichment programs for learners?

5. How strongly have you established you appraisal system?

Do you do appraisal of everyone in the school, from teachers, to admin, to service personnel and staff,
or even parents?
Is there an institutionalized practice/protocol on this?

-what about your monitoring and evaluation procedures on programs and projects?