Head Teachers questions should be generally be at school management level.
So not:- How do you teach spelling?
But:- How would you describe your leadership philosophy and describe a time when you have been able to use it effectively to develop your teaching staff?
Not:- How do you deal with naughty boys?
But:- What ideas do you have in relation to Behaviour Management and which techniques which you would support?
If you had to reduce the school budget, how would you go about it?
If you had some extra money, what would you spend it on?
Tell me about a project where you had to apply an unusual level of creativity.
Tell me about a time when you had to influence a group of people in order to deliver a particular result.
If I took a walk around your school, what would I see?
What would you be most proud of?
How would you motivate an unmotivated Teacher/Department?
What makes an outstanding teacher?
How would you progress a 'good' teacher to 'outstanding'?
Why do you want to come to this school?
Tell me about some difficulties at your previous school and how you dealt with them?
What was your biggest success at your previous school?
We currently have a problem with 'insert here', how would you tackle this?
What was the most important thing you learnt at your previous school?
What is the best policy on School Trips?
How would you introduce the Good Practice you have seen at your previous school into this school.
The current Deputy Head at this school has also applied for this post. If you are appointed, how would you deal with them and their obvious disappointment?
Are after-school clubs worth while?
When you are observing a lesson what do you look out for?
What bad practices have you seen and how have you tackled them?
Have you read our last OFSTED report?
How would you go about addressing the points for improvement?
What steps would you take to increase parental involvement with the school?
What steps would you take to increase community involvement with the school?
How would you ensure that progress is maintained throughout the year?
What 'progress checks' would you use and how often?
What would you do to ensure that the Gifted and Talented continue to make progress?
How would you monitor this?
What would you do to ensure that the Special Needs continue to make progress?
How would you monitor this?
What would you do to ensure that the Great clump of pests between Gifted and Talented and Special Needs continue to make progress?
How would you monitor this?
- - These last few are very important
Do you oppose corporal punishment for parents?
Early one morning, a mother goes in to wake her son.
"Wake up, wake up, it's time for school!"
"But whyyyyy, I don't want to go."
"Give me two reasons why you don't want to go."
"Well, all the kids hate me and all the teachers hate me"
"Oh, that's no reason, come on now and get ready."
"Give me two reasons why I should go to school."
"Well, one, you're 52, and another, you're the HEAD TEACHER!"
How many Head Teachers does it take to change a light-bulb?
Well hang on a minute! You can't go changing a light-bulb just like that. You need a plan - long, medium and short-term - or your method of changing the bulb will be in question. You will also need to be very clear what you are trying to achieve by changing it - that will need writing down and handing out to anybody who happens to be watching you change the light-bulb. Furthermore, some account will need to be made for the fact that the light bulb may not be very bright - you can't just discard it. You will also need to spend time assessing your procedure after the event, with a clear emphasis on taking the bulb-changing process to the next stage. Oh and there is the question of changing other bulbs on a voluntary basis after hours...