Interview+Prep

1. How do you account for equity and diversity in your unit planning.

2. Walk us through a day as an occasional teacher and what would your responsibilities be?

3. Tell us about the (balanced) comprehensive literacy program in your classroom. (will be Adolescent Comprehensive Literacy for secondary)

4. You have a student whose behaviour is disrupting the learning of others. What do you do? What do you do if it escalates?

5. Tell us about a unit you planned according to the Ontario Curriculum and how you planned for differentiated instruction.

6. How do you create an inclusive classroom environment. (//What would your classroom look like?//)

7. Describe your volunteer and community involvement

8. Choose an Essential Classroom Practice and explain how you used it successfully 

9. Tell us a time when you had to collaborate with others and what was your role in the collaboration process.

10. What is your philosophy of education?

11. Tell us how you engage parents and make them partners in their child's education?

12. How do you assess students?

13. Tell us how you have met the needs of/program for students with special education needs/ELLs?

14. Using your resume as a reference, tell us why you would be good for this position

15. Tell us about a conflict you have had and how your resolved it.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">16. Tell us how you showed flexibility and adaptability as a teacher.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">17. As an OT, how would you handle an extremely noisy/disruptive class? (steps to take)

18. How have you engaged in professional development and how has your PD impacted your teaching?

19. What classroom management strategies do you use?

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 * <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Equality is sameness, equity is fairness, and diversity is the difference each student brings to your class. **
 * <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Inclusion defines and embraces 'best practice': the planning of activities by taking into consideration the needs of all students. **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. plan and organize an effective and safe program for students <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. develop sensitivity towards diverse cultures through reading and discussion <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. develop and foster a positive classroom and school community with a focus on the social cohesiveness and development of the group......cooperative learning, Tribes, SEAL etc

........................................................................................................................... <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Literacy in the 21st Century is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable achievement, personal well-being and full participation in an interconnected and changing world community <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">……. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.multiliteracies.ca/index.php/index/showAbout
 * <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What are the factors that may lead to inequity **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">? v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> age, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> socio-economic class, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> colour, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> ethnicity, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> learning disability, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> moral values, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> sexual orientation, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> gender identity, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> clothing, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> learning style, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> first language, v <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> physical disability

See p. 4 http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/general/elemsec/speced/Caring_Safe_School.pdf