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AFRICAN SOLIDARITY
PROPHET ELIE
ADMINISTRATIVE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS TYPES
Question:
1. Talk about yourself
2. What is your Vision for this School
“If you don't know where you are going, you probably aren't going to get there.”
My goals will be:
a. Increase the number of students taking challenge courses and HAS
b. Increase the number of students with advanced scores on state test
c. Raise the achievement on MSA to 100% through team collaboration with staff, community, stakeholders, other school that made it like ocean city ES, Swan Meadow, or Overlook ES
d. Reduce the percentage of non qualified teachers in the classroom which appear to be 47.9%
e. Increase the number of highly qualify teachers base on a reduction of professional teaching and a cooperative staff development and teamwork
f. Help student smoothly make the transition into High School
g. To realize this goal, I would use a share vision approach with all my staff, community, business representative, and stakeholders having in mind the beliefs and expectation that all students can achieve the course objective they are assigned to. For this reason, my philosophy would be student-centered principal (best interest of kids)
h. My staff and I would make sure the primary language within the school, in class, hallway, and cafeteria is French, both for staff and students.
i. I would be a leader who promotes the success of all students through a vision that is shared and supported by the school community and staff and this would be done through meaningful teamwork, clear and measurable goals, regular collection and analysis of data, and a continue and constant monitoring of all these through walk through, informal and formal observation, modeling, implementation or scheduling of appropriate staff development.
j. I do think that failure should not be an option regarding students achievement and believe in micro-technology school with specialization on specific domain like Cisco, security, and so on to help kids smoothly make the transition from Middle school to High School and college, and even real-world life and these would ease some abstract subjects like math where students are having problems to grasp it.
3. Training you had that would help you implement the vision
a. My credential background, experience, and leadership courses I have taken allow me of being able to:
b. Manage community and staff by creating a safe environment of sharing vision
c. Monitor and analyze data
d. Analyze and help teachers implement strategies to monitor students understanding and progress by sharing some of the skills I learned from skillful teaching 1 and 2 and using some skillful teachers within or outside the school
e. Model and help teachers incorporate differentiation in their classroom y implementing constructivism, r behaviorism approach of teaching taking into account Maslaw, Piaget, Gardner, Dewey and other strategies on stages learning.
f. Also ,the fact that I did taught at a middle school, my understanding of district and state voluntary curriculum and the fact that I am a certify bilingual teacher is a great asset.
4. Describe your school instructional leadership
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." -Aristotle
a. High-achieving schools have principals that lead the academic program, set goals, analyze curriculum, evaluate faculty, assess achievement, and review instructional programs. The teaching and learning process is at the core of every educational endeavor. Enhancing the effectiveness of that process should be the goal of each school leader.
b. As an instructional leader,
c. I am a resource provider and I should recognize the desire teachers have for acknowledgement and appreciation for a job well done, and assist my teachers in professional development.
d. I am an instructional resource –mentor: brainstorm with staff on specific staff development needed
e. Success in 'teaching and learning' means teachers count on their principals as resources of information, current trends, and effective practices in instruction. Instructional leaders are tuned-in to local and state educational mandates, issues of curriculum & assessment, and effective exemplary instructional practices.
f. I must be a good communicator. Effective instructional leaders communicate essential beliefs regarding learning including all children can learn; success builds success; and learner outcomes guide instructional programs and decisions.
g. Being a visible presence: This can be done through walk through, informal observation, be visible on hall way, classroom, cafeteria, sports events …
h. focusing on learning objectives, modeling behaviors of learning, and designing programs and activities in the educational community with a focus on instruction.
5. How would you develop and implement steps that ensure professional growth for teachers and support novice teachers with class classroom management issues? How would you create a climate conducive to learning
a. Give opportunity to teaching to get better, to observe veteran teachers in school or other schools, assign them with a mentor or staff development teachers would will help them improve
b. For the climate, I would meet with the SGA(student government association) president to discuss issues and sometime get involve in peer mediation
c. Schedule should allow mentoring and sharing and I should supervise or check to see how it’ working
d. Brainstorm with staff to find out the staff development neede
e. Set up with staff, community in accordance with county rules, a common rules for the entire building
6. How would you help second grade student in reading
I would brainstorm with the reading specialist and other department staff if necessary to study a way to help students individually, or putting in place after school tutoring by using school resources. Set up a 5 minutes reading or math grills early every morning. Implement a weekly one hour team meeting and action plan meeting per grade level .Also a mandatory fifteen minutes reading should be implement every day at the end of the school. Also teachers should use variety of techniques to convey meaning
7. How would you integrate parents Parent would be involve trough volunteer program where they can help in class where they kids are not assign, helping on reading, and math, tutoring, etc…Encourage teachers to get specialize parents involve while introducing a new concept through real-life demonstration. Parents of immersion students are asked to show a visible commitment to the immersion program. Parents commitment can range from volunteering in a classroom on a regular (or periodic) basis, to providing the student with experiences in the French language. These experiences may include exposure to a range of materials in French as well as interaction with students and adults who speak French. One example might be as simple as encouraging the student to borrow French materials from the public library.
8. Describe your leadership style and how it would impact school climate?
Through sharing vision, I would have a team group that would meet every two weeks to make decision for the best interest of kids, I would create a social committee ( to help improve school climate ) ,discipline, math instructional and reading committees. These committee should be periodically evaluate and monitor with a follow up decision in a timely manner
9. How would you infuse the French immersion program through patternship with business or other groups
I would involve all business patterners, foreign embassy , encourage immersion through experience outside the school with universities, field trips to French countries like france or Belgium, grant writing for k-8
10. Which measure would you take to ensure continue improvement of teaching, leadership accountability, and students achievement
a. I would ensure that what is taught follow county curriculum and that teachers are on space through formal and informal visit, regular checking with the instructional specialist and that teachers are using MSA indicators and differentiate instruction. Late teachers should be encourage to define a plan to catch up with spacing and all these measures should be regularly monitor and encourage. I would motivate every staff, students, community by creating a students, teachers, or parents of the month awards , and parent-teacher of a day program.
b. I would implement a biweekly issues of microgrades and request that my secretary get an update of all parents e-mail address which can help me of double informing parents on school movement but also request their input special math program, what they think about cafeteria food, questions they might have, … and I would set up a newsletter and request that the webmaster do post school events regularly .
END QUESTIONS
a) What are you looking for through a new principal?
b) What are the 3 things you expect a new principal to do the first year?
c) What steps would you take to ensure that you would continue meeting AYP the following years
Grades / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8Reading / 65.5 / 85.7% / 92.6% / 71% / 94.7% / 90.9%
Math / 69 / 81% / 66.7% / 48.4% / 68.4% / 90.9%
http://mdk12.org/mspp/ayp/acc_workbook/princ9.pdf
Highly Qualify teachers: 21.7%
Conditional Certificate:60.9 %
Percentage of non certify teachers: 47.9 %
In a context of Fighting, proceed as follow:
1. Separate individual
2. investigate
3. notify parents
4. get witnesses
5. Follow with suspension
In a context of Complain/Concern
1. Investigate
2. Get back with parents
Concerning Hall Supervision:
This include the following
1. Hall duties
2. Bus transportation where you deal with issues on buses
3. Cafeteria duties
Some of the assignments done during your internship include:
My duties consisted of the following to assist the principal in the school’s daily operations.
· Hall duty, performing security sweeps, assist with staff evaluations
· Hall sweeps with law enforcement, monitors student attendance
· Bus duty morning and evening, supervises extra curricular activities
· Cafeteria duty for all lunches A, B & C, provide general supervision to students
· Bus referrals issues with transportation, maintains relationship with parents and the community
· Parent-conferences , teacher-student-conference, interacts with students to encourage positive performance
· Parent-Student – Administrator-conference, share in the administration of student discipline
· Testing administrator/Instructional Team
· Implement the school’s curriculum and evaluate it’s implementation
· Assignment of daily subs, assists scheduling special events during school day
· Referrals for students behavior issues, building services for custodial staff
· New students orientation/grade level assemblies
· Evaluation of teachers/emergency evacuation /crisis plan
· Performed other duties as assigned
· Making Cluster and department meeting agenda
· Acting as assistant principal when they are absent
· Handling duties and responsibilities in a timely matter
· Handling disciplinary referrals
· Attempting team instructional team meeting
· Working on school improvement(at least some knowledge)
· Attending and scheduling parents-teachers conference and discipline referral
· Taking care of PS 74
· Attending and supervising sport and outdoor events
· Coordinating and handling peer mediation
It’s because of all these that my administrators did recommend me to apply for this position because they do thing I can perform well.
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Write a MEMOS on an incident that arrived in the cafeteria
MEMORADUM
Date:
To: Parents of David James
From: Elie Tcheimegni , Principal
Re: Cafeteria misbehavior
This notice is to inform you that your child, David James started a fight in school cafeteria today. See the attached Misconduct Explanation Form, which includes James’s comments. As a result of his misconduct, James is suspended from school for one day: June 6, 2007.
If we have not talked on the telephone by the time you receive this letter, please call me. We should try to plan together how to have James behave properly in School. I am sure you want him to stay out of trouble in the future as much as we do.
Please discuss the attached behavior standards with your child again and let me know if you have any questions.
St. Elie’s High School
P.o. Box 33
Ouro Hourso, Cameroon
Tel: 301-244-5411 Fax: 301-244-5411
www.solidariteoblige.com
Principal : Mr. Elie Tcheimgni Assistant Principal: Ms. Edna Liemegni
Memo To: Parents or Sponsor
Memo From: name]
CC: name]
Date: 3/27/2012
Re: Student School Bus Misconduct Warning
The school has received notice of unacceptable behavior by ______on
______. The report indicated: ____________.
The administrative action taken in response to this incident is a warning. If another incident occurs involving your child, bus-riding privileges may be suspended or revoked. During any period of bus suspension or revocation, you will be responsible for transporting your child to and from school to arrive at ______and depart at ______Students may not be left at school outside of these times. Your unit commander or supervisor will be contacted on noncompliance with this schedule or unexcused student absence during any school bus suspension or revocation.
Please discuss the attached behavior standards with your child again.
Please sign below to acknowledge receipt of this memorandum and return it to school with your child by ______in a sealed envelope addressed to ______.
Principal
Attachment:
As stated
cc:
Teacher/Counselor
Transportation Management Office
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
______
Parent/Sponsor Signature Date Student Signature Date
Parent Telephone Numbers ______
Duty Home Emergency
St. Elie’s High School
P.o. Box 33
Ouro Hourso, Cameroon
Tel: 301-244-5411 Fax: 301-244-5411
www.solidariteoblige.com
Principal : Mr. Elie Tcheimgni Assistant Principal: Ms. Edna Liemegni
Memo To: Parents or Sponsor
Memo From: name]
CC: name]
Date: 3/27/2012
Re: Suspension of School Bus Riding Privileges
The school has received notice of unacceptable behavior by______on
______. The report indicated: ______
______.
As a result of this incident, ______‘s school bus riding privileges are suspended from______to ______. During this period of suspension, you are responsible for transporting your child to and from school to arrive at______and depart at ______. Students may not be left at school outside of these times. Your unit commander or supervisor will be contacted in the event of noncompliance with this schedule or if ______is absent without excusal during this period.