GED Teacher Interview Questions
1. What teaching experience do you have?
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1. My experience has been in a public classroom setting. Instruct and design individual education plans and evaluate their process. Maintain high student interest level through discovery activities and hands on learning. Recognize for using effective classroom procedures and appropriate student discipline.
2. I have 4 years of teaching experience at the middle school level full time. I have 5 years of teaching assistant and substitute teaching.
3. I have been a 7th grade teacher for 8 years and I have approximately 10 years of training of adults in the restaurant industry.
4. I have 6 months experience interning with 6th graders where my mentor teacher actually gave me complete authority in her class. After that I obtained 2 years teaching experience in a 6th grade math class where I taught four different classes a day, all different levels.
2. Why would you make a great GED Teacher?
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1. I will make a GREAT GED teacher because I am an educator and my goals to help students achieve their goals academically and to graduate and receive their high school diploma!
2. I have many life experiences and education that I can share.
3. I am patient. I am willing to teach and reteach. I am available and I believe that everyone can learn.
4. I am familiar with the content and I enjoy teaching people of all ages.
3. Why did you decide to teach adults?
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1. They are my targeted audience.
2. I connect with them better.
3. Students has more to bring to the conversation.
4. Education is important. I will show them that they are capable and that they deserve a second chance and be part of their success.
4. What is most rewarding for you, as a teacher?
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1. My students grasping and understanding everything I have taught them to help them be successful.
2. Watching a student really get a concept and use it.
3. When students understand the material and grasp the new knowledge.
4. Establishing a report with students and helping my students reach their potential.
5. What did you dislike about your current or old teaching position?
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1. My ability to teach in a way that my students would fully understand and not have to move on when the students are not ready because of the districts mandated pace.
2. They did not offer professional development.
3. Nothing. Its a new experience teaching adults.
4. The system words doesn't always match it's action. For example, we must differentiate education but tests are standardized. And not everyone test the same.
6. Why did you choose to become a teacher?
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1. I became a teacher because I love watching children grow and helping children learn academically.
2. I enjoy the classroom environment and the fact that you can incorporate many different subjects and strategies to get a point across.
3. Because I want to make a difference and because I believe all students can learn.
4. I wanted to make the same impact in a child's life that was made in mine as a kid.
7. Are you comfortable teaching adult students?
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1. I think adult students have more to offer me a well. We can converse on a more advanced level than Elementary students.
2. Yes. I have experience teaching adult students and I am comfortable in that setting.
3. Yes because as Director of Training I was responsible for the training and creation of program for adults. So I have several years of experience.
4. I have no experience teaching adult students but I'm comfortable with adults, I'm comfortable with students and I'm comfortable with teaching so I feel it would be a good fit for me.
8. What experience have you had with students from culturally diverse backgrounds?
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1. I taught 4/5 split class that was very diverse, (Pilipino, Russian, African descent, African American, Caucasian) and because those students were all of different cultures and have lived in the United States all their lives, my students attended that school since preschool, they spoke English. During holidays, our class was respectful of the different religions and cultures. My class had International Day set up for my students to share their cultures with each other by giving a little history, and share different types of foods, and clothing.
2. Very good. We share the differences and respect different cultures.
3. Most of my teaching experiences have come from teaching students from culturally diverse backgrounds.
4. My district is currently a large percentage Latin but also has a large African american and Asian community. Each school is different.
9. How do you handle distractions in your classroom?
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1. Classroom management is a plus. You have to have structure and enforce school and classroom rules. Without structure, distractions will be chaotic. Once you have structure, everything will fall in place.
2. I usually redirect the situation with a joke or question.
3. Stop teaching to show that distractions are not acceptable in the classroom. After a few seconds go back to teaching.
4. Very well and suttley. I multitask well and I use proximity.
10. What areas do you find yourself struggling to teach?
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1. Math. It has always been a struggle for me even as a high school student.
2. I think struggling to teach is a constant thing. Teachers are always trying to improve their lessons and themselves through professional development.
3. I am a perfectionist and I am sometimes extremely unforgiving of my own mistakes.
4. Well there aren't many things I don't love or love to learn about, but if I had to choose a subject it would be history. This is simply because it didn't appeal to me as a child, with the dates and the people and the timelines, so I began to focus on other subjects and began to become strong in them. Now, as an adult, I see how relevant history and civics are and I love it, but it's not my strongest suit.
11. If you could improve yourself by one quality as a teacher, what would it be?
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1. I would say, to strengthen my technology skills. There's always room for improvement with so many different websites on How To and Educational websites that will enhance your classroom lessons.
2. I would add more visual language to describe concepts more thoroughly.
3. I am constantly working on my communication.
4. One thing that I struggle with, both in my personal life and in my professional life, is being a perfectionist. I am very hard on myself and have been since I was in kindergarten. Although it can be a great thing, as people tell me, it can also distract away from the bigger picture.
12. Would you ever choose a salary based on graduation rate?
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