These are some questions that I have gleaned from the web. This page used to contain toe-curling answers that I worked out in my head from my first years of teaching. I had to remove them for my own self respect.

Openers that are supposed to be easy, but are actually hard!

Why St Bogwaldss school?

Why do you want to lead a history department?

Why are you the best person for this position?

What are the skills, experiences and attributes that make you the ideal candidate for this position?

How will we notice that youre head of department?

What do you think History contributes to the school ethos?

Management

How will you motivate your staff?

How will you improve the teaching and learning?

What would you do if a senior member of your team was falling down in some area of practice, or refusing to implement a department policy?

Exam performance

How could you improve our Value Added scores / raw grades at GCSE?

How could you improve take-up at GCSE?

Data

What are the formal ways in which you can find out about the performance of your department/faculty?

And the informal ways of doing this?

You might have seen school data they could ask you what it suggests to you.

How will you use pupil data to improve attainment?

What will you do with your findings from data?

What kinds of actions and interventions can data inform?

How would you deal with underachiving boys (esp D grade students at GCSE)

How would you use data like CAT, SAT, G + T internally produced info to raise achiev within the dept?

What one change would you introduce to improve results within the dept?

Teaching and Learning

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the lesson you taught in the morning or a recently taught lesson

Whats the role of pupil voice in improving teaching and learning in a department?

How would you improve teaching and learning in a history department?

How could ICT play a role in raising achievement in History?

How would you develop a team ethos within the History department?

Your future

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Hard Questions that I should ask!

Themore experience I get, I find that successful candidates are those that can express ideas in terms of those set out below:

Key Stage 3

Key Stage Four

Look at the data for this years Yr11 are there any areas of knowledge or exam technique that can be re-addressed now so as to give them more chance in the finals?

Are there any groups in exam years that are struggling? What do you need to do to improve their understanding?

Planning schemes of work and integrating practice papers, knowledge tests and skills practice at GCSE level.

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