Search Committee Questions

Example Questions

• Describe a successful experience working with a diverse population of students.

• Discuss your experience or interest working with struggling learners.

• Talk about a time when you helped a student experience success.

• How have you individualized instruction for a student?

• Tell us about a time when you challenged a slow learner and an advanced learner in the same class.

• What is your experience working with special education students? English Language Learners?

• Give an example of something valuable that you learned from a colleague.

• Would you rather try new teaching strategies or try to perfect the approaches which work best for you?

• Describe how you have made your course content culturally relevant for your students.

• Provide a specific example of how you used technology in an interactive way.

• What are the methods that you use to help reduce plagiarism in your classroom?

• Describe procedures that you use to evaluate student progress besides testing.

• What is the most exciting thing happening in your field of study?

• Tell us about individuals who have most influenced your own education and career.

• What campus and/or community activities would you like to be associated with and why?

• How do you anticipate working at this school will be different from your previous experience?

• What needs and/or expectations do you have of administration?

• Tell us about a time when you worked with a student who had special needs and was repeatedly disruptive or uncooperative. How did you handle that situation?

• What personal attributes do you possess which will enable you to be a positive role model for students?

• What are your plans for continuing your professional growth?

• Tell me about an interesting article you have read recently in a professional journal.

• What current trends in higher education interest you? Displease you?

• Describe a situation in which you did all the right things and were still unsuccessful. What did you learn from the experience?

• What pedagogical changes do you see on the horizon in your discipline?

• How would you go about being an advocate and resource for the use of technology in the teaching and learning process?

• What challenges are you looking for in this position?

• What is your philosophy of education?
• How do you assess how well students are learning?
• What is your approach to classroom management?

• If we visit your classroom, what will we find most impressive?
• What techniques do you use to keep students actively involved during a class?
• How do you stay current in your field?

• What experience do you have with distance learning, internet courses, etc.?