Interview questions for leadership roles in education

If you’re preparing for leadership roles in education, then having a list of up to date interview questions is a must!

Read on to find out the questions shared as recent questions they’ve experienced - by some of my recent clients.

• Give a brief outline of any relevant experience both before and after you became a teacher.

• Describe how you would work with the BOM, department and other stakeholders involved in the school.

• Serious behaviour incident - how would you deal with it as the principal?

• What would you do to involve parents?

• Explain your vision for the school.

• How would you manage an underperforming teacher?

• How would you involve a reluctant teacher in a new initiative or a change?

• Did you ever have an initiative that didn’t work, why?

• How would you allow others to take on leadership roles/responsibilities?

• How would you manage SSE across the team?

• How would you cater for the spiritual development of the children?

• If you had to write a new RE programme tomorrow what would you include/exclude?

• How would you deal with a child protection disclosure?

• What key skills do you have to make you a good leader?

• As DP how would you work with the principal?

• Scenarios: 1) A child fell on the yard and was hurt 2) The boiler has broken down and heat not working 3) An angry parent at the door - how would you manage that? and 4) you receive an anonymous letter to the school saying that there is systemic bullying taking place in a certain class - what do you do? 5) A parent wants their child to be moved from one class to the other class at that level because their child and teacher do not get on - what do you do?

• How would you work with staff to ensure that the teaching and learning is developing throughout the school?

• Give us an example of how you have monitored and evaluated the effectiveness of an area of the curriculum.

• How would you evaluate the quality of teaching and learning in a school?

• When did you adopt a different approach in leadership style and what did you notice?

• How would you deal with an underperforming teacher/staff member?

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