The Most Important Interview Question I Bet You’ve Never Asked. Let me start with a simple truth: There is no single decision made by the principal of a professional learning community more important than who to hire to fill vacancies on individual learning teams. After all, the teachers that you hire today are likely to be a part of your faculty – working with students, influencing colleagues, shaping decisions, impacting public relations – for years to come. Heck, the teachers that you hire today are likely to be a part of your faculty long after you have left for a new position. That means every hiring decision that you make has tangible, long-term consequences for the families and the students that you are responsible for protecting and serving.
That’s obvious, right? Then why is it that the interview questions we ask are so terribly, horribly wrong? Why do we keep asking candidates to tell us about their experiences with integrating technology into their instruction or their strategies for managing difficult students? That’s easy. #period.