<p> POSSIBLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS</p><p>COORDINATOR OF FINE AND TECHNICAL ARTS</p><p> Please discuss in detail your past experiences in education (both teaching and administrative), your professional preparation and your present responsibilities and duties.</p><p> Describe any of your outstanding accomplishments in your present position.</p><p> As a Coordinator new to the District, what would you do to familiarize yourself with the District, it’s programs, your staff and the expectations of your position?</p><p> Describe your management style. Explain how it would affect your actions/decisions in areas of teacher concern such as staff development, shared decision-making and communication.</p><p> How would you inform the staff you supervise of your expectations?</p><p> Talk about something that happened in your present position that you would do over if you could.</p><p> Describe a typical day in your current position.</p><p> How would you go about assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the program you would be supervising and formulate a long-range plan for improvement, if needed?</p><p> If a parent came to you and complained that a teacher is not meeting the needs of his child, how would you respond?</p><p> How would you handle the fine line between parent involvement and interference in their child’s education?</p><p> In your opinion, what makes a superior teacher? How do you determine if a teacher is doing a good job?</p><p> What kinds of qualities would you look for when hiring teachers?</p><p> What is your philosophy about observations and evaluations? Do you follow a particular method?</p><p> When do you think a probationary teacher should be let go?  Share with us something that frustrates you in your present position.</p><p> What do you consider to be your major assets or strengths for a job demanding positive and smooth relationships in dealing with parents, students, community and professional staff? Things you need to work on?</p><p> Describe your philosophy of utilizing technology in powerful ways in an instructional environment.</p><p> What kinds of activities would you engage in as Coordinator to improve and solidify community support for your programs?</p><p> As one of the key persons responsible for the on-going training of your staff, what will you do to ensure that your teachers receive quality staff development?</p><p> What kinds of professional development activities have you personally engaged in during the past year?</p><p> If you discovered that one or more of your departments were not functioning as a team, what strategies would you use for team building?</p><p> Reflect on an experience in education which was a significant challenge or problem and explain how you solved the problem and how you arrived at your solution.</p><p> Describe a project that you planned, organized and executed.</p><p> What are you short and long term career goals?</p><p> What kinds of research did you perform to educate yourself about our school district? What did your learn about us?</p><p> What kinds of adjectives would your references use to describe you?</p><p> Why are you the best candidate for this position?</p>