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1. Tell me about your professional training and teaching background, emphasizing things specifically that you feel have prepared you for the job you are seeking.

2. Why did you choose to be a music teacher?

3. How do you feel about the "extra duties" that often are associated with being a band instructor? ( Pep Band, Memorial Day Services, Veteran’s Day, Commencement, etc.)
   4.What are your strengths as a teacher? What are your weaknesses?

5. What is your opinion of the role of the computer in the classroom and to what extent do you plan to use it?
6. How do you plan to get students to participate in lessons?

7. After school starts, how long would it take to get a schedule of lessons posted on your door and to the building principal?

8. How do you get students to participate in Pep Band?

9. What Experience have you had with Marching Band and Field Shows?

10. When a band student sits down for band, does he or she know what the plan is for that day?

11. What are the other students expected to do while you work with another section of the band?

12. If you were offered and accepted this position, how would you manage your first four weeks of school?

1. Tell me about your professional training and emphasize those things that you feel have prepared you for the guidance counselor/test coordinator’s job.

2. What experience have you had counseling elementary school students?

3. What are you strengths working with younger (K-6) children in a counseling session?

4. What are your weaknesses in this area?

5. What guidance curriculums (like Character Counts) are you familiar with and which have you use
6. What training do you have in the use of computers?

7. What agencies are available to parents or children who have problems that you as the school counselor cannot deal with effectively?

8. In a counseling session a student reveals information that you feel would jeopardize someone’s safety. What would you do?

9. If a student is a constant discipline problem and is referred to you for counseling, what is your best technique for dealing with his or her behavior?

10. When, if ever, is it appropriate for a counselor to break confidentiality and tell what he or she has heard during a counseling session?

11. Two or more students who just don’t like each other and keep telling lies about each other. They are constantly getting into fights and verbal battles. How would you handle them when they were brought to you for counseling help?

12. A young girl shares with you that her father is sexually abusing her and asks that you promise not to tell anyone. She says that you are the only one she can trust to keep her secret. What would you d
13. What experiences and knowledge do you have with the following?

• South Dakota’s changing graduation requirements

• The South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship

• ACT, SAT, PSAT and ASVAB Testing

1. As the Guidance Counselor and Test Coordinator for our school, you would be involved with the Dakota STEP testing. What can you tell me about our state’s mandatory test battery and your familiarity with it?

2. In the past we have had "Awareness Days" for the students at the junior/senior high school. If you were to organize an event like this, what type of topics would you include that you think would be of interest and benefit to today’s junior/senior high school students?

3. How much work have you done helping seniors in high school who are preparing to further their education by attending college, university, vocational or military opportunities?

4. What are your strengths working with the adolescents you find in junior high and high school?

5. What would be your weaknesses in working with this age of student?

1. Describe your experience with past administrators, supervisors, professors, etc.

2. As a Guidance Counselor, what do you expect from your building principal?

3. Has your performance always been evaluated fairly?

4. Give an example of a situation in which you have been criticized. How did you react and why?

5. What are some of your strengths as an employee?

6. What are some of your weaknesses as an employee?

7. You are in the staff lounge. The discussion is very negative and depressing to you. What would you do if you stayed in the lounge?

How well organized are you

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