Campus Interviews

Question Bank for Mock/ Campus Interviews
General

Tell us about yourself.
Apart from teaching, what else do you like? / What are your hobbies?
As a teacher, what do you think is important: marks, student interaction, attitude formation, values?
Do you think technology helps in teaching effectively? How?
What was the COP project at the WMCE?
Who is an effective communicator?
Why should teachers need to be good communicators?
While teaching, how will you know whether students are learning or not?
Would you like to stay on the campus?
How are co-curricular activities important?
Who are your favourite writers?
As a teacher, what do you think is important: content or method?
Many times even if teachers work hard students do not learn. What could be the reasons for such a situation?
How can you make the teaching of English/ Sanskrit/ Maths/ Social Science interesting?
Some learners are audio-oriented, some visual-oriented, some kinesthetic. What kind of activities can you give to each one of them? Or, how can you cater to individual differences among learners?
Can you teach without a textbook?
Textbook materials are not complete. How will you supplement the textbooks?
What different teaching aids can you make/ use for teaching your subject/s?
What are your sources of learning? Which sources do you use to develop yourself?
How can you use ICT for making your subject more effective and interesting?
How can you teach abstract concepts? The Solar system, the Black Holes, Force, wind energy. Difference between Time and Tense, (English), the equator (geography) etc.
Where would you like to work: in a city or a small village? Why?
Which are your favourite topics in English/ Maths/ Science/ Social Science/ economics?
Which activities can you organize outside the classroom to develop proficiency in English?
How well can you conduct the Assembly? What experience do you have of the same?
What are you fond of reading? Which newspapers, magazines, etc do you read? Which are your favourite columns?
How can you use stories/ songs for teaching in the classroom?
What is meant by ‘process-oriented’ teaching?
What is meant by participatory learning?
What is meant by ‘Experiential learning’?
What are ‘Ice-breaking’ exercises?
Which Board is this school affiliated to? Have you seen the textbooks taught at this school? Are you familiar wit the syllabus?
If selected, what are your expectations?
What are your strengths/ limitations?
How long can you work in a day? How long are you ready to work in a day?
If selected, how long will you stay in this job?







Sanskrit
Recite a shlok and explain its meaning.
Why should we teach Sanskrit?
What is the difference between teaching English and teaching Sanskrit?
What different teaching aids can you make/ use for teaching Sanskrit?
What is the place of stories/ songs/ games in Sanskrit classes?







Social Science
Can you engage a geography class outside the classroom?
What different teaching aids can you use for teaching geography/ history/ civics?
History is normally considered to be a boring subject? How can you make it interesting?



English
Recite a poem.
What are the different ways in which future time can be expressed in English?
What is the difference between time and tense?
What is a clause? Give examples.
Correct these sentences. If it will rain, I will not go out. One of my friend is an architect.
How is the teaching of English different from the teaching of Social Science/ Science/ Sanskrit?
Students in Gujarat have problems vis-à-vis certain sounds in the English language? Which are they? How will you help the learners to oversome these problems?
Talk about any book you have read.
What is the place of stories/ songs/ games in language classes?
What is meant by ‘Communicative Language Teaching’?
The textbooks of English these days emphasise functional grammar. What are language functions?


Science
1. How will you help students identify presence of Carbon dioxide?
2. Which concepts in physics can you teach visually?
3. How are ‘force’ and ‘pressure’ different?
4. ‘Sound’ as a wave is difficult to understand. How will you make the students understand it?
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