Elementary Teacher Mock Interview
Practice 50 Elementary Teacher interview questions covering classroom management, differentiation, and parent communication.
Question 7 of 50
If I were your principal and we were setting goals for next year, what would they be?
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You may want to ask for more information to make a more well-informed response. Regardless, you can answer hypotheticals by laying out the grounds of two different common scenarios and explaining the goals. You can also wrap your answer up by telling the interviewer about one aspect of professional development that you would strive to work on regardless of the school's needs. Follow up with why you want to work on it and/or how it'll benefit the school.
"That depends on what the areas of improvement are. Maybe we need to work on reading scores or math scores, in which case my goal would be to raise the scores. I'm always trying to get parents more involved, though, so increasing parental engagement is one of the goals I really want to keep working on throughout my career because I've seen that students succeed more consistently when parents are supportive of what the teachers are trying to accomplish."
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