Walk into your teaching interview ready for the panel.
Headteachers ask about behaviour, safeguarding, progress and why you teach. Practise answering out loud with a school panel that follows up.
- Behaviour management that works
- Safeguarding knowledge
- Planning for progress and inclusion
Questions the panel will ask
- 01Why do you want to teach at our school?
- 02How do you manage low-level disruption?
- 03What would you do if a pupil told you something worrying?
- 04How do you make sure every pupil makes progress?
- 05Tell us about a lesson that went well and why.
Plus follow-ups on anything vague, then a scored debrief, video replay and STAR coaching.
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