Teacher Candidate Interview Rubric
I created the Teacher Candidate Interview Rubric to use in my building this year during interviews for teaching positions available for the 2014-2015 school year. When hiring teachers, or any position it is important to get the right person into the right job for students, as well as for everyone else involved including the candidate. This is not only a decision based on wanting the best teacher for the position but it is also an ethical decision. The rubric serves as a artifact for Missouri Leader Standard 5: Ethics and Integrity. It is the principal's job to do their best to ensure that students are being considered in every decision. This need is obvious when it comes to hiring teachers. Teachers are the people in a school building that directly influence students the most, next to their peers. And so it is important to be selective when hiring a teacher. However, being selective also means that you must make ethical decisions and a scoring rubric is a good way to be sure that candidates are being evaluated in a consistent manner. The Teacher Candidate Interview Rubric serves as a artifact for Standard 5: Ethics and Integrity because I think that a principal's ethics are seen is everything that they do. The things that a principal chooses to spend time on say a lot of about not only their beliefs and philosophy but also their integrity. Find the right person for a teaching position shows integrity because it is doing the right thing by the students, by the candidate, and by the existing staff. It is ultimately the principal's responsibility to do this. It is also important to mention that finding the right person for the position may not always meant that it is the person that the rest of the staff would hire. Ideally, you do want your candidate and their candidate to be the same, however, the principal is the one responsible and ultimately it is the principal's decision.
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