Current Students > Career Center > Sample Interview Questions for Education Majors

• What is your philosophy of education? Of Discipline?
  
  
• What issues in education are of greatest concern to you? Why?
  
  
• Describe the role of the teacher in the learning process.
  
  
• What is the role of the teacher in the community?
  
  
• How would you individualize instruction in your classroom?
  
  
• Why do you want to teach?
  
  
• What special abilities do you have that would benefit your students?
  
  
• What prompted you to go into the field of education?
  
  
• Do you grade on ability or effort? Why?
  
  
• If you found out the slower learners in the class could not read the grade-level book, what would you do?
  
  
• Tell me about your student teaching experience.
  
  
• How do you feel about observations by supervisors or principals? Why?
  
  
• Are you interested in working with students in some extracurricular activity? If not, why not?
  
  
• What influenced you the most to become a teacher?
  
  
• How are you able to show both an interest in and an enthusiasm for teaching?
  
  
• What do you perceive as the three most important strengths you possess as a teacher?
  
  
• How do you reinforce major concepts or ideas that you want students to learn?
  
  
• What have you found to be a good way to motivate students toward active participation in the learning process?
  
  
• What elements make up a good lesson plan for you?
  
  
• Most lesson planning results in the modification of ideas and approaches. When you taught students, how and when did you deviate from your lesson plans?
  
  
• How do you organize students for effective instruction?
  
  
• How would you handle a parent-teacher conference where the parent blamed you for his or her son’s/daughter’s lack of progress?
  
  
• Would students view you as a reasonable person to know and a fair person with whom they can work? Why?