30Math Teacher Interview Questions & Answers
1.What is your greatest strength? How can you use it to benefit our students?
2.What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve upon it?
3.What makes you unique as a math teacher?
4.Why did you decide to become a math teacher?
5.Give an example of a situation in which you made math exciting for your students.
6.Other than tests, how do you assess student learning?
7.What was the most frustrating thing that happened to you as a teacher?
8.What do you like most about teaching math?
9.What three words would your students use to describe you?
10.What kind of students do you like to work with? What type of students could you teach most effectively?
11.How would you challenge the slow learner and the advanced learner within the same class?
12.What do you have that would enhance our teaching staff?
13.What do you feel is the most effective way to communicate with parents?
14.What are your most effective teaching strategies?
15.What rules do you have for your classroom?
16.What are your plans for continuing your professional growth?
17.Tell me about someone who has influenced your own education and educational career.
18.Share with me what you think a good piece of mathematics is - something you really like.
19.How would you make math class great for a slower-learning student who feels discouraged about their math ability?
20.Tell me about a lesson that went well and why.
21.Tell me about a lesson that didn't go well and why. How might you improve that lesson?
22.What skills and technologies are you most interested in improving upon or learning?
23.Which math subject is your favorite to teach and why?
24.What is your homework philosophy?
25.How do you get students engaged in the problem-solving process?
26.If needed, would you be available to teach summer school?
27.Why do you want to work at our school?
28.Describe how you handle conflict with a student.
29.Is there anything on your social media that would be unbecoming of a teacher?
30.This concludes our interview. Do you have any questions for me?