These are some questions that I have gleaned from the web. This page used to contain toe-curling answers that I worked out in my head from my first years of teaching. I had to remove them for my own self respect.<\/p>\n
Openers that are supposed to be easy, but are actually hard!<\/p>\n
Why St Bogwaldss school?<\/p>\n
Why do you want to lead a history department?<\/p>\n
Why are you the best person for this position?<\/p>\n
What are the skills, experiences and attributes that make you the ideal candidate for this position?<\/p>\n
How will we notice that youre head of department?<\/p>\n
What do you think History contributes to the school ethos?<\/p>\n
Management<\/p>\n
How will you motivate your staff?<\/p>\n
How will you improve the teaching and learning?<\/p>\n
What would you do if a senior member of your team was falling down in some area of practice, or refusing to implement a department policy?<\/p>\n
Exam performance<\/p>\n
How could you improve our Value Added scores \/ raw grades at GCSE?<\/p>\n
How could you improve take-up at GCSE?<\/p>\n
Data<\/p>\n
What are the formal ways in which you can find out about the performance of your department\/faculty?<\/p>\n
And the informal ways of doing this?<\/p>\n
You might have seen school data they could ask you what it suggests to you.<\/p>\n
How will you use pupil data to improve attainment?<\/p>\n
What will you do with your findings from data?<\/p>\n
What kinds of actions and interventions can data inform?<\/p>\n
How would you deal with underachiving boys (esp D grade students at GCSE)<\/p>\n
How would you use data like CAT, SAT, G + T internally produced info to raise achiev within the dept?<\/p>\n
What one change would you introduce to improve results within the dept?<\/p>\n
Teaching and Learning<\/p>\n
What were the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson you taught in the morning or a recently taught lesson<\/p>\n
Whats the role of pupil voice in improving teaching and learning in a department?<\/p>\n
How would you improve teaching and learning in a history department?<\/p>\n
How could ICT play a role in raising achievement in History?<\/p>\n
How would you develop a team ethos within the History department?<\/p>\n
Your future<\/p>\n
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?<\/p>\n
Hard Questions that I should ask!<\/p>\n
Themore experience I get, I find that successful candidates are those that can express ideas in terms of those set out below:<\/p>\n
Key Stage 3<\/p>\n
Key Stage Four<\/p>\n
Look at the data for this years Yr11 are there any areas of knowledge or exam technique that can be re-addressed now so as to give them more chance in the finals?<\/p>\n
Are there any groups in exam years that are struggling? What do you need to do to improve their understanding?<\/p>\n
Planning schemes of work and integrating practice papers, knowledge tests and skills practice at GCSE level.<\/p>\n
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