Math Teacher Interview Questions
Go Back1. This concludes our interview. Do you have any questions for me?
2. What are your plans for continuing your professional growth?
3. What do you feel is the most effective way to communicate with parents?
4. Is there anything on your social media that would be unbecoming of a teacher?
5. What three words would your students use to describe you?
6. What is your greatest strength? How can you use it to benefit our students?
7. Describe how you handle conflict with a student.
8. Give an example of a situation in which you made math exciting for your students.
9. How would you challenge the slow learner and the advanced learner within the same class?
10. Tell me about a lesson that didn't go well and why. How might you improve that lesson?
11. Why did you decide to become a math teacher?
12. What do you like most about teaching math?
13. Why do you want to work at our school?
14. Which math subject is your favorite to teach and why?
15. What skills and technologies are you most interested in improving upon or learning?
16. Share with me what you think a good piece of mathematics is - something you really like.
17. Tell me about someone who has influenced your own education and educational career.
18. What rules do you have for your classroom?
19. What do you have that would enhance our teaching staff?
20. What is your homework philosophy?
21. If needed, would you be available to teach summer school?
22. How would you make math class great for a slower-learning student who feels discouraged about their math ability?
23. How do you get students engaged in the problem-solving process?
24. What makes you unique as a math teacher?
25. What are your most effective teaching strategies?
26. What kind of students do you like to work with? What type of students could you teach most effectively?
27. Other than tests, how do you assess student learning?
28. Tell me about a lesson that went well and why.
29. What was the most frustrating thing that happened to you as a teacher?
30. What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve upon it?