Please answer every column before answering the questions below.

Kindly be sure and write your name as it is in your passport:

Last Name/ Middle Name First Name/ Given Date of Birth Complete Physical Educational Years of Have you Subject Areas Qualified
Surname Name MM/DD/YY Address where you Attainment Verifiable completed a to teach as per your BA
Email Address live with Teaching Credential Degree
Phone # Date of Experience after Evaluation of
Graduation of You Graduated your
With your BA Transcripts?
BA Degree Degree

BACHELOR
OF - SPECIAL NEEDS
NJOROGE WAITHIRA FAITH 05/01/1965 GITHURAI KIMBO EDUCATION 17 YEARS YES EDUCATION
IN SPECIAL - COMPUTER
NEEDS STUDIES
11/06/2008

INITIAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Email address to send this to is: Recruiting@wedaretoteach.org

Let us get started. The questions are typed below and you need to answer them to your fullest, without typos and with good Standard English grammar in your sentence structure. We will not
correct your written work. Please do not use social media or texting language. Your answers are what we will send to Principals for them to be motivated to want to interview you, so please be
thorough and elaborate on your capabilities and experience in teaching. Sell yourself well in your writing! You may use Microsoft Word where you have Spell Check.

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stolen or lifted someone else’s writing (plagiarism), your interview will be cancelled within our program. Please write your own answers. You may research the final question if you do not
know anything about what they are asking. However, please research then translate it in your own words showing that you understand what it is.
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1) Describe your teaching experience over the years of your professional experience. Give concrete
answers, not theory. What all have you been teaching and doing in the classroom as a teacher?
2) What is your philosophy of teaching?
3) What categories of your Subject area are you strongest in?
4) What categories of your Subject area are you weakest in?
5) What qualities do you have that make you an effective teacher?
6) Please tell us what you know about the American With Disabilities Act?
7) How do you involve parents in their child’s school life and classroom activities?
8) Please tell us what you know about Project-Based Learning (PBL)?
9) It is felt that some International teachers are not very strong with classroom management and control,
especially in US classrooms because they are only here for 3-5 years. The American urban adolescent
can be a challenge to manage in a classroom setting if you are not prepared. Tell us about your discipline
strategies and how you would not allow this situation to be said about you, if you are hired.
10) Situational question: You have been reporting to a parent that his/her child’s behavior has been
extremely poor in the classroom. One day that student decides they will neither do their work nor
comply with your instruction. They proceed to destroy their work and throw things around the
classroom while shouting at classmates and yourself. How would you handle this?
11) Please list all the classroom technology equipment you are familiar with?
12) What extra-curricular activities would you get involved in if hired?
13) Please tell us what you know about the Common Core Curriculum?
14) Please research Corporal Punishment in American Schools
15) Please research the American Urban Child and learn about their living standards, family life and experience in America.
16) Please research behavioral problems in the American classrooms and classroom discipline and management strategies in the American classroom.
17) Please read Harry Wong’s First Days of School and learn his strategies on classroom management.
INITIAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Describe your teaching experiences over the years of your professional experiences

Over my 34 years of teaching experience I have worked with diverse student groups from
elementary to especial needs learners, early in my career, focused on traditional lecture
method, but over a time I integrated interacting approaches like individualize learning and
project based learning for instance in every learner with special needs in cooperated and
individualized educational plan ( IEP) which resulted to every learner getting to learn best
at their individual levels. Learning out comes were improved.

2. What is your teaching philosophy?

My philosophy is progress teaching philosophy where learning is student centered and
hands on experience. It also enhances critical thinking.

3. What categories of your subject area are you strongest in?

I have a broad knowledge base, but I am strongest in mathematics and science.

4. What categories of your subject area are you weakest in?

While I can analyze music and art, I can’t compose music or paints in a traditional sense.

5. What qualities do you have that make you an effective teacher?

- I have subject mastery on subjects I teach.
- I have communication skills, clear and engaging explanations and active listening. My
classroom management skills are best. I establish rules and expectations, I also keep
students engaged and focused.
- I also do adaptability and creativity i.e adjusting teaching methods and materials to
suit learners needs, I also innovative approaches to make learning enjoyable.
- I have passion for teaching and learning.

6. Please tell us what you know about project based learning (PBL)
- It is where students learn by actively engaging in real world and meaningful projects.
- It involves exploring complex questions, problems or challenges of an intended time.

7. Tell us about your discipline strategies and how you would not allow this situation to
be said about you if you are hired.
 The approaches that I will use will be positive behavioral intervention and support, put
good classroom management technique, logical consequences, detention and sustention.
Also involve parents. These are the common ones that I will use when hired.

8. You have been reporting to a parent that his/her child behavior has been extremely
poor in the classroom. How would you handle this?
I will handle this by trying to identify the triggers through observation, and then I arrange
meetings with him/her. If that doesn’t work I collaborate with support staff, colleagues
and school counselor if there is one. I would also implement coping strategies. I would
also regular check on him/her. Through patient and understanding combined with
structured support system improvement will be achieved.

9. Please list all the classroom technology equipment you are familiar with.
- Interactive displays and projectors
- Cameras to project
- Microphones
- Speakers
- Public address systems
- Vides
- Television , Computers, tablets, laptops and Ipads

10. What extra curriculum activities do you get involved in when hired?
- Volunteer programs
- Gardening clubs
- Field trips and nature walk
- Cultural exchange programs

11. Please tell us what you know about the common co-curriculum in American Schools.
It is asset of academic standards in mathematics, English Language Arts/Literacy that
outlines what students should know and be able to do at each grade level from K-12 grade.