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Do you have any leadership skills?
Describe two times you've faced a challenge and how you handled it.
The final interview is a group-teach interview and then an in-person one-on-one interview. For the teaching assignment, you are given 5 minutes to teach a mini-lesson to the other applicants in the room. This interview ends with a role-play scenario that you are given the day of the interview and then a one-on-one.
Scenario (summarized): You plan to take your students to a play, but the principal opposes allowing the budget to be used for students to miss school. What do you do?
The most difficult part of the one-on-one interview was the role-playing scenario. The goal of the scenario is for you to demonstrate your communication abilities and your ability to foresee potential difficulties.
Explain how you stay organized
Talk about a time you missed a deadline.
They very explicitly ask you what, if anything, would prevent you from fulfilling your two year commitment, which is probably a pretty important question.
Why do you want to serve in low income, under resourced schools?
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