If a team member or colleague wasn't pulling their weight on a curriculum development project, how would you handle that situation?
In looking for you to be their next Curriculum Developer, your interview will be expecting that you can lead and manager educators throughout the design process. Whether it would be due to an overloaded work schedule or simply not caring, you may run into a person that doesn't want to do their fair share of the work on a project. Your interviewer will be looking to hear that you are able to handle a situation like this with a direct approach. As well, they'll want to know that you can do so with respect and a forward vision for the project. If you have an example of a time where you dealt with an educator or colleague in a situation like this, don't hesitate to talk about how you handled it with ease and success.
"On any curriculum development project, a true team effort is a must. Every person involved has a specific role to play, and I know mine. If a team member wasn't doing the necessary work or giving the necessary information, as a leader, I would first approach them directly in a one on one situation to reset my expectations for them as part of the project. I wouldn't place blame. I would listen to them, and absorb what they were saying to me. Ultimately I would stay positive. I'd stress just how critical their involvement is to this project was, and that the project goes as the people driving it goes, and if they lacked support in some way, then we would resolve that issue."
