Teaching interviews combine questions on classroom practice, differentiation, behaviour management and safeguarding, sometimes with a demo lesson. Below are the questions you're most likely to face and what a strong answer shows. When you're ready, rehearse them in the Interview Lab with questions built from your job ad.
What they're looking for
Concrete strategies (scaffolding, grouping, extension tasks) and assessment that informs teaching.
What they're looking for
Clear routines, positive relationships, consistent consequences, and an example.
What they're looking for
Adapting in the moment, reflecting afterwards, and what you changed.
What they're looking for
Formative and summative assessment, feedback that leads to progress, and using data.
What they're looking for
Proactive communication, positive contact as well as concerns, and partnership.
What they're looking for
Listen, don't promise confidentiality, report to the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) at once, and record it.
Most candidates know the questions and still freeze on the day. In the Interview Lab, an AI hiring manager asks questions written from the real job ad and your CV. You answer by voice or text and get a scored report with a stronger version of every answer.
Start with a free match checkStudy the job ad, prepare STAR stories for the competencies it lists, rehearse answers out loud, and do a mock interview. The Interview Lab generates teacher questions from the actual ad and scores your answers.
Roughly 1 to 2 minutes for behavioural questions. Technical questions can run longer if you walk through your reasoning.