1. Teacher Aide Interview Questionnaire
Candidate: _________________________________________
Date: __________________________
Position applied for: _____________________________
Personal
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Are you a self-starter? How have you demonstrated that?
3. What did you most like about your present/last job? . . . least like?
4. What is your greatest strength? Needed growth?
5. How have you demonstrated initiative in your jobs?
6. What experiences have you had with children, in any capacity? In some type of
educational setting? With any learning difficulties?
7. What other job experiences have you had?
8. How have you demonstrated patience with people?
9. Can you be tough with a student, yet temper it with kindness? Examples?
Classroom Management/Discipline
1. How do you see yourself alongside another adult?
2. How do you see your role in the maintenance of classroom order?
3. How can you reinforce the teachers’ goals/methods with the students?
4. While working with small groups or individuals, what do you see as your primary
role?
2. Instruction/Evaluation
1. Based on your experience with children, how will you manage to accomplish the
instructional goals that the teacher gives you?
2. How can you motivate students to learn or do something that you have asked
them?
3. A child refuses to work in a cooperative manner. What do you do?
4. The teacher is instructing the students in a whole-class setting. There are one or
two students that are not listening or are not paying attention to the teacher. What
do you do?
5. You disagree with the methodology of the teacher. Your idea, you feel, would
work with this particular student. What do you do?
Professional/Philosophical
1. What responsibility would you have in the overall school program/climate of the
building?
2. Someone in the community asks you how things are going, and there has been an
issue recently that you disagree with. How do you respond to the question?
Wrap-up
1. When could you start this job?
2. What should I know about you that hasn’t come up in our interview?
3. What questions do you have for me?
4. You will need a health physical, and we will do a criminal background
investigation, both as required by state law. Do you know of anything on either
of those that would prevent you from working in a public school? Have you
ever been convicted of a crime involving sexual or moral turpitude?
