INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
DAVISVILLE ELEMENTARY PRINICPAL SCREENING COMMITTEE
1. Briefly describe your background and experience. Include in your answer the reasons for your interest in DE, your reasons for leaving your current position and your short and long term career goals.
2. Please discuss your experience and understanding of the Title I regulations including data collection and reporting requirements, school administration as it relates to the re-authorization of Title I through NCLB, and issues of supplanting.
3. Describe your school wide behavior plan which you have implemented in your school. How would you support teachers who are working with children with severe behavior issues?
4. Please comment on your administrative skills. Using specific examples, please address communication, planning, decision making and organizational skills. Please describe a typical faculty meeting that you have chaired in your building.
5. How would you handle a student that consistently disrupts the learning environment of others and is a threat to his own learning? A student has repeatedly engaged in aggressive behavior in the corridor. How would you suggest the teacher/staff handle this matter? How and when do you intervene?
6. DE will be home to a PDD classroom next year. Please describe your experience in educating children with autism spectrum disorder.
7. In North Kingstown, through School Advisory Councils and PTO’s, parents and community members play an active role in school governance. Describe your administrative style in working collaboratively with parents and community members.
8. In your personal opinion, what criteria should be used to evaluate a teacher’s instructional effectiveness in the classroom? If you found a teacher’s performance to be borderline, what would you do?
9. A student seems to be unfazed by a failing report card and the parent response is non supportive. What suggestions do you have for dealing with the situation?
10. Besides peer coaching and mentoring, what new strategies would you bring to enhance the professional development process? How would you assist your faculty in acquiring the skills necessary to meet the needs of all learners?
11. Change is a necessary ingredient in school improvement. Next year DE will be supporting PreSchool Special Education and PDD classrooms, both new programs at DE. Describe for us how you have successfully managed change. How would you ensure a smooth transition?
12. What is your experience and philosophy with respect to inclusion vs. pull out programs? Describe the inclusion model that you have implemented in your school.
SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS IF NECESSARY
13. A regular education student and a special education student are involved in a fight. Should discipline be applied equally?
14. How would you handle a directive from Central Administration that you didn’t agree with since in your view it would adversely impact students?
15. What forms of assessment do you consider authentic?