interview questions for musical instrument teacher
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These are some general questions,
1. What makes you a strong candidate for this job? A middle school position? Anelementary job?2. Why do you want to be a music teacher?3. Describe the place of music in the overall educational program?4. Describe your experience working with Special Education students?5. Describe the selections you would program for a concert?6. What do you consider your greatest asset as a teacher?7. What are some personality characteristics you feel are undesirable in teachers?8. How did you feel about your favorite teacher? Why?9. What are your strengths? Weaknesses?10. To what professional organizations do you belong?11. What conferences or workshops have you attended recently?12. Why are you leaving your current job?13. Why do you want to teach here?14. How do you feel about weekend or evening activities and festivals?15. How important is it for students’ teachers to be at their festivals?16. How important are ensemble trips to you?17. How do you feel about competition?18. If offered the position, how do you see your involvement in the music program?19. What kind of discipline do you require as a teacher?20. Describe proper classroom atmosphere.21. What kind of administrative support is required for you to be successful?22. How do your students describe you?23. Describe the kinds of training you have had as a teacher, beyond formal degree programs.What were 2 important inservice courses or workshops you have taken/attended, andwhat impact have they had on your teaching?24. If you were to choose 3 vital emphases that would direct your teaching for _____students, what would they be?25. Tell us what training you have had in the areas of learning styles, dimensions of learningand assessment, and what impact they have had on your teaching?26. How has your teaching changed in the past 2 years?27. A benchmark for third graders is that they have learned quarter, half, dotted half, wholeand pairs of eighth notes with corresponding rests. How would you assess that learninghas taken place?28. Our district has a team of general music, string, and band teachers in each elementaryschool. All of these persons share a student population. What personal qualities do youhave that would make you an effective team member?29. A parent comes to you and tells you that s/he is unhappy with the way another musicteacher in the building is approaching something regarding their child. You also teachthis student, and, privately, you think that the parent is correct. What would you do?30. You are teaching a class of 5th graders and they are performing a dotted quarter/eighthnote combination hesitantly or incorrectly. What would you do?
Hope it helped ya.
These are some general questions,
1. What makes you a strong candidate for this job? A middle school position? Anelementary job?2. Why do you want to be a music teacher?3. Describe the place of music in the overall educational program?4. Describe your experience working with Special Education students?5. Describe the selections you would program for a concert?6. What do you consider your greatest asset as a teacher?7. What are some personality characteristics you feel are undesirable in teachers?8. How did you feel about your favorite teacher? Why?9. What are your strengths? Weaknesses?10. To what professional organizations do you belong?11. What conferences or workshops have you attended recently?12. Why are you leaving your current job?13. Why do you want to teach here?14. How do you feel about weekend or evening activities and festivals?15. How important is it for students’ teachers to be at their festivals?16. How important are ensemble trips to you?17. How do you feel about competition?18. If offered the position, how do you see your involvement in the music program?19. What kind of discipline do you require as a teacher?20. Describe proper classroom atmosphere.21. What kind of administrative support is required for you to be successful?22. How do your students describe you?23. Describe the kinds of training you have had as a teacher, beyond formal degree programs.What were 2 important inservice courses or workshops you have taken/attended, andwhat impact have they had on your teaching?24. If you were to choose 3 vital emphases that would direct your teaching for _____students, what would they be?25. Tell us what training you have had in the areas of learning styles, dimensions of learningand assessment, and what impact they have had on your teaching?26. How has your teaching changed in the past 2 years?27. A benchmark for third graders is that they have learned quarter, half, dotted half, wholeand pairs of eighth notes with corresponding rests. How would you assess that learninghas taken place?28. Our district has a team of general music, string, and band teachers in each elementaryschool. All of these persons share a student population. What personal qualities do youhave that would make you an effective team member?29. A parent comes to you and tells you that s/he is unhappy with the way another musicteacher in the building is approaching something regarding their child. You also teachthis student, and, privately, you think that the parent is correct. What would you do?30. You are teaching a class of 5th graders and they are performing a dotted quarter/eighthnote combination hesitantly or incorrectly. What would you do?
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