Part of my role as department chair is to interview for positions in my department. Every summer it seems as though some of my time is taken up hiring somone new. This summer we are looking for a new theater teacher and an assistant choir director for me. With all the teacher cuts there are lots of people looking for jobs and even this late in the summer with the choir job only being posted two weeks I have interviewed six people. I am amazed at how hard it is to truely get a since of a person in an interview. We practice, know what questions they are going to ask and put on our best "Sunday" clothes to impress. I am looking to see the real person to know your heart and spirit. Willl you love the kids, will you work well with my weird quirks, will you work hard, do you have the skills that you say you have, will the kids love you, can you handle and control kids.......... and that isn't even the music side of things.
Things not to do in an interview:
1. interupt the principal
2. ask too many questions
3. call the children at your old school "riff raff"
4. disclose that the only reason you are getting back into teaching "at your age" is because of a divorce
5. say that you have several offers and are not worried about getting a job
6. show up in a wrinkled shirt and a dirty tie
All of these things did happen!
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