Teacher Interview Questions

Use these 13+ Teacher interview questions to assess candidates from every angle: warm-up, role-specific skills, behavior, and problem solving. Adapt them to your process, or generate a custom set with the AI tool below.

Jasmin Erge

Written by Jasmin Erge, HR Content Specialist at Hirex. Reviewed by the Hirex Recruitment Team. Last updated July 15, 2026.

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Welcoming questions

  1. Can you tell us about your teaching background and the age groups or subjects you have taught?
  2. What made you choose teaching, and what still excites you about being in a classroom?

Role-specific / technical competencies

  1. Walk us through how you plan a lesson, from learning objective to the activities students actually do.
  2. How do you differentiate instruction in a class where abilities range widely?
  3. How do you check whether students have actually understood a lesson, beyond end-of-unit tests?
  4. What is your approach to classroom management, and what routines do you set in the first week?
  5. How do you use technology in your teaching, and where do you deliberately avoid it?

Behavioural & culture fit

  1. Tell us about a student who was disengaged or falling behind. What did you do, and what happened?
  2. Describe a difficult conversation you have had with a parent. How did you handle it?
  3. Tell us about a lesson that went badly. What did you change afterwards?

Problem-solving / case

  1. Halfway through a lesson you realize most of the class has not understood the core concept. What do you do in the moment?
  2. Two students have an ongoing conflict that is starting to disrupt your lessons. How do you address it?
  3. You receive a new student mid-year who is significantly behind the rest of the class. How do you plan their first month?

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