The document provides guidance on conducting effective interviews for staffing positions. It discusses developing competency-based interview questions, differentiating questions for different candidate types, using scenario-based questions, and recognizing excellent, strong, weak, and poor candidate responses. The objectives are to create an effective interview and evaluation process and practice identifying excellent answers.

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4. Objectives Create an effective interview and candidate evaluation process Develop a series of competency-based interview questions Practice identifying excellent answers   

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8. Determining Your Interview Questions With a partner, look at the interview questions you already use. What competencies do they align with? Can any of your questions be adjusted to align with a competency? Are there follow up questions you should add? Your Interview Question Competency Follow-up Questions

9. Determining your Interview Questions Now that we’ve discussed the components of strong questions and reviewed some of your own, we are going to give you time to build an interview question bank.    Use the question bank in the appendix to develop 1-2 questions for each competency, create your own questions or use the adjusted questions from the previous activity. Be sure to have a mix of questions so that you can assess each competency. For a 30 minute interview, you should aim to ask 6 questions (allowing time for responses and follow up questions). Determine the order of your questions. Those which are more involved or require more thought should be asked later in the interview so that interviewer and interviewee have a chance to “warm up.” Activity

10. Questions you plan to use Competency Question

11. Remember to include a question on any specific area for follow-up that you indicated on the resume review sheet

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14. You can customize the same question for different types of candidates Select one question that provides evidence of “Teaching Ability” and customize it to make it relevant for each group: Experienced Teachers __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ New Traditionally Prepared Teachers ____________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Alternatively Certified Teachers _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Competency: Teaching Ability Indicator: Maintains high expectations for students when confronted with setbacks; continues to focus on the students’ academic success

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26. Different candidates will have different responses to the same question What would you hope to hear in an ANSWER from a (n): Experienced Teacher? __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ New Traditionally Prepared Teacher? ____________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Alternatively Certified Teacher? _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Criteria: Classroom Management Indicator: Remains productive and focused in stressful situations What question might you pose to all candidates? ___________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

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28. General Probing Questions Can you tell me more about…? What do you mean when you say…? Can you give me an example of that? Would you do anything else…? 

30. Using Probing Questions Using the candidate description below, develop three possible probing questions. Example: Charles is a third year teacher moving to San Francisco from Chicago . He received his degree in elementary education. You ask: Do you think all students should be held to high expectations? He replies: That’s a really hard question. Students come to school with so many different talents and experience many challenges outside of school. So, no, I don’t think everyone should be held to exactly the same standard. Possible probing questions: 1._________________________________________________________________ 2._________________________________________________________________ 3._________________________________________________________________ Activity

31. Practicing Probing Questions – Role Playing In this activity, the facilitator will be Kara Boyle. The participant will be interviewing Kara and asking a specific question and a series of follow-up questions. Evaluate what went well and what you may have done differently. Question 1: Tell me about a lesson that you taught that was successful. Question 2: How would you handle a parent that believes you are targeting their child for classroom disruptions? Question 3: How do you measure success for your students? Activity

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36. Appendices   Question Bank by Competency Resume Review Form and Rubric Unlawful Interview Questions Common Interviewer Biases  