Search Committee Questions

Teaching Questions for Search Committees

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.?