Job Interview Questions for Prospective Business Education Teachers

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Job Interview Questions for Prospective Business
Education Teachers
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• Teaching

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• What Business Education courses are you ready to
  teach immediately?
• How have you prepared yourself for these courses?

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• What textbooks did you use during your student
  teaching experience?

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• Give me an example of a discipline problem you
  had with a student.
• How did you handle it? Include the interaction
  you had with the department chairperson,
  principal and parent.

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• What was your biggest success in the classroom
  while you were student teaching?
• How would you replicate this type of success?

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• What was your biggest disappointment in the
  classroom while you were student teaching?
• How would you change a future situation?

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• Department

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• Which club would you want to advise and why?
  DECA, FBLA, other?

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• Tell me more about DECA.
• How many members?
• What types of projects did they carry out?
• How much money did they raise?
• How did they do it? How did they prepare their
  students for the contests?

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• Tell me more about your experience in the school
  store.
• How did it operate?
• What did the students sell?
• Who were your vendors (by name).
• Did students receive credit for working at the
  school store?
• How much profit was generated each month?

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• Tell me about your involvement in professional
  associations such as the NBEA, BTA, LIBEC, WECA
  or SCBTA group.

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• What are the requirements for the New York State
  Business Honor Society?

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• Assume you were discussing high school
  graduation requirements with one of your students
  and his/her parents. Explain the details of a
  Career and Technical Education Endorsement.

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• How will you make a difference in our Business
  Education Department?

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• Added Value

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• Tell me what you know about the career planning
  process.
• What elements should appear on a career plan?
• What activities should a student experience in
  order to help in the decision-making process?

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• Tell me how you would run a work experience
  program.
• Are you certified? How do you feel about
  training plans?
• Can we give a student school credit if they are
  working for their parents off the books?

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• Tell me how would you set up and run an advisory
  board.

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• What do you know about distance learning or
  on-line learning?
• How do we bring these programs to our school?

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• We need someone to run a job fair for our school.
  
• Can you do this for us? Explain in detail.

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• Personal

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• Describe your own computer literacy background.
• What software programs can you use and teach?

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• We need someone to create a webpage for our
  department.
• Can you do this for us? Explain in detail.

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• Give me an example of how you demonstrated team
  work during your student teaching experience.
• Give details, the challenges, and the outcomes.

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• What are the three most important
  knowledge/skills you bring to this position?

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• How would the Business Education instructors at
  the school at which you completed your student
  teaching describe you?
• Give examples to validate their positions.

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• Why should we hire you?

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Do you have any questions?