School Interview Questions and Answers

Education interviews start with safeguarding. Keeping Children Safe in Education applies to schools and colleges, and tells every member of staff to read Part 1, to report concerns to the designated safeguarding lead without delay, and never to promise a child that they will not tell anyone about a report of abuse. NSPCC Learning gives the same advice on confidentiality. Teachers are then measured against the Teachers' Standards, which the Department for Education's Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework builds on, and a panel will usually ask for a real lesson, class or pupil behind every answer.

Support for pupils with special educational needs follows the SEND Code of Practice, which describes SEN support as a cycle of assess, plan, do and review and says teachers stay accountable for the progress of pupils who work with teaching assistants. GOV.UK describes education, health and care plans for children who need more support than their school provides. In nurseries, the early years foundation stage framework sets seven areas of learning and requires every child to have a key person, which Development Matters also describes. In further education, the Learning and skills teacher standard and the Education and Training Foundation's professional standards set the expectations for lecturers.

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