Individuals who have excelled in a particular subject can use their expertise to tutor others looking for some extra help. Interviews typically consist of subject-specific questions that will assess your academic proficiency. You should also expect to answer some behavioral and situational questions, such as how you would motivate a disinterested or discouraged student. Skills that are sought after include interpersonal, problem-solving, and goal-setting abilities.
One of the questions asked me to prepare a small teaching sample. They gave me a list of hypothetical situations of which I was required to respond to two, 10 minutes to prepare and another ten minutes to explain how I could respond to the situation. I was allowed to used any materials I had available.
Describe your experience in teaching students reading and reading comprehension.
Do you have leadership experience?
Why would you be the best fit for the job?
To teach a mathematics concept
Can't really remember. The basic idea is they wanted to discover what I thought and did without leading onto what they were expecting out of a tutor. They pretended to be a student and asked me to be a tutor. Than evaluated me.
I was surprised the most by the quiz.
I was asked a question that involved a math problem. And I was asked to identify a grammatical error that was presented to me.
Why Applerouth?
Describe your tutoring style/What is your tutoring philosophy?
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