Sample Interview Questions for Adult Education

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Sample Interview Questions

Students are encouraged to book an advising appointment for a mock interview to prepare for interviews, but you can also use these questions for self-study. You can book your advising appointment on campusBRIDGE.

You can also partner with a friend and they can ask you a sample question while you answer to practice interviewing.

  1. Why are you interested in this position?
  2. How would you describe your facilitation style?
  3. What are your three greatest strengths related to training/facilitating/instructing? Tell me about a time when you used one of those strengths in the classroom.
  4. How would your colleagues describe you?
  5. Tell me about a time when you were misunderstood by a colleague. What was the nature of the misunderstanding? How was the issue resolved?
  6. A student comes to see you and tells you they are having problems with your course. They also say, according to them, that you are not a good instructor. How would you react in this situation?
  7. Tell me what you would do if you found that your ideas and those of the department head differed. 
  8. Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a supervisor. What was the nature of the conflict and how was it resolved?
  9. Describe how you have prepared to teach a lesson/session in the past.
  10. Using a specific example, describe how you motivate learners in your training sessions. Tell me specifically about strategies that you have used to deal with reluctant learners.
  11. How often is your time schedule upset by unforeseen circumstances? Give me a recent example to demonstrate how you deal with interruptions.
  12. How do you evaluate students?
  13. Tell me about the management strategies that you use to keep your class on task.
  14. Do you have any examples of feedback that you have received from students?
  15. We have three classes that are following the same curriculum and we would like to keep the classes at the same place in the curriculum. How would you deal with a class that was falling behind?
  16. Tell me about your experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS). If you were to select a system, what would you look for? 
  17. Testing is a very important aspect of our work, but our students don’t like it and they don’t “fail out” of a course if they skip a test. What would you do to increase attendance for tests?
  18. How organized are you? What methods do you use to maintain your teaching records?
  19. Tell me about a time when you had an effective co-teaching experience. Why do you feel it was effective?
  20. If you could structure the perfect job for yourself, what would it be?
Updated November 2023