Administrative Candidate Interview Questions
Director of Physical Education, Health, Athletics,
Drivers Education and Adult Education
2014-2015
Bellmore-Merrick CHSD
Office of Personnel
QUESTIONS FOR DIRECTOR FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH and ATHLETICS
General
- Would you please tell us about yourself, your professional preparation and anything else you wish to add?
- Why do you wish to become an administrator in our district?
- What do you feel are your major strengths? What have you done to pursue your perceived liabilities?
- Who has had the greatest influence on your life?
- How do you deal with stress?
- Please share final comments or questions and a closing statement that indicates why you are the best candidate for the position.
Administrative
- What are some of the things that a new director can do to raise the level of expectations of the other teaching, support staff, coaches and students?
- Please describe the relationship of the director as part of the central office team including directors and in relation to building administration including principals, assistant principals and athletic coordinators.
- Share your experience and relationship with building principals, teachers, coaches, support staff and central office.
- During your career you must have been involved in a program or innovation that was not successful. If you had the opportunity what if anything would you do differently to change the outcome?
- In what way would you go about improving and maintaining open communication with specific groups (administration, staff, and community)? Explain how you have applied these techniques.
- What is your approach in managing multiple priorities? Provide some examples of how you apply the approach on a daily basis.
- How do you keep informed of what the staff is thinking about expectations and the work environment?
- What kinds of Professional Development Programs have you offered the instructional staff and coaches? Please describe both instructional and any other topics you may have introduced.
- With all of the administrative responsibilities, deadlines and meetings; how do you make sure to be visible and in touch with students?
- What role would you play in supporting the student, parents, administration and staff, if there is a disagreement in a discipline situation?
Leadership
- What is your philosophy of physical education and athletics in public schools?
- Describe your leadership style and provide some examples of how it has been successful.
- How would you characterize your leadership style and how would that style benefit the Bellmore-Merrick CHSD school community?
- Describe how the relationship between a principal and director can make the program most effective at the building level.
- Give an example of a major conflict you faced and explain how you resolved it.
- Give an example of a major personnel problem you have faced and explain how you dealt with it.
- What three qualities do you look for in a teacher?
- What three qualities would you look for in a coach?
- How will you support teachers and administrators in terms of parent involvement?
Instructional
- What is your vision for a strong Physical Education and Health Program?
- As Director of Physical Education, Health and Athleticsyou would like the teaching staff to use various active learning strategies. What steps would you take to help staff vary their instructional methodologies in the classroom? How would you assess if change has taken place?
- What do you feel are your greatest strengths as an administrator? How would these strengths relate to the improvement of the instructional program?
- What are the key aspects to a successful physical education/health program?
- Describe your experience with planning and preparing Professional Development.
- How do you believe that physical educational performance should be assessed? Describe your experience with assessment, including alternative assessment.
- What has been your role in implementing technology in the physical education, athletic and/or health programs?
- How do you envision supporting the curriculum areas of physical education and health?
- What are the key components to a successful physical education lesson?
- What are the key components to a successful health education lesson?
- What are the key components to a strong athletic program?
- What role have you played in developing, implementing and supervising the physical education/health program in your current district?
Curriculum Development
- Give an example of a program or a curriculum innovation that you have developed which you feel has had a positive impact on students.
- Describe the components of a strong physical education and health curriculum.
- Please share an example of a program or curriculum innovation that you developed and explain how it had a positive impact.
Supervision
- Describe a plan of supervision that you feel is successful in motivating tenured staff members who are satisfactory or marginally satisfactory.
- Describe your experience supervising staff.
- What is your approach to staff evaluation? Describe how you have used these techniques successfully.
- Please outline a plan for supervision of the following teachers: the highly motivated and committed teacher, the new inexperienced teacher, and the veteran disgruntled teacher.
- How have you organized staff meetings to make for consistency and communication between grade levels and buildings?
- Please describe your experience in evaluating coaches.
- Please describe the strengths in your current coaches’ evaluation process. What you would improve?
Community
- Describe some ways that you have been involved with your school community. Also, indicate how your school district benefited from these activities.
- As an administrator how would you encourage staff to become involved in the community? Describe your past success in encouraging community involvement of staff.
- As a Director how will you develop relationships with different constituent groups including; administrators, teachers and parents.
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