Finding a mentor takes a bit of forethought and hard work, but the payoff of that relationship can have a significant positive impact on your career – from quicker advancement and better realization of your career ambitions to guidance and support as you tackle the personal and professional challenges of the workplace.
Questions to ask a mentor about career development and advancement:
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In addition to a structured job interview, many high-school mentoring recruitment process also include the delivery of a presentation. To prepare for your interview presentation click here: How to deliver a job interview presentation.
This article, though, will focus on the answers to behavioral job interview questions.
Behavioral job interview questions ask for examples of passed experience. This means that giving examples is the best way to answer the job interview question.
This series of interview questions can be adapted to many different purposes. If you are trying to choose mentors for new teachers, you can interview the mentors and novice teachers to gain a sense of who might be a match personally and philosophically.
If you are just developing a mentoring program, you can use the responses to the interviews to gauge whether or not expectations of mentors and novice teachers for mentoring are aligned with your goals for the program.
If you are leading mentoring meetings, you can select a small number of these questions for mentors and mentees to use in interviewing each other. Addressing these issues can help these partner teams establish strong communication from the start.
We know the power of mental s as a strategy for helping readers comprehend difficult text. Suzy Kaback uses a similar technique to help novice teachers envision success. Thisl is an activity you might want to try with a new teacher group.
Fall is a time when many novice and seasoned teachers begin mentoring relationships. But what do the mentors expect from this partnership? And how might their expectations differ from those of the novice teacher?
Mentoring Job Interview Question: Give me an example of successfully mentoring a group?
In the main, mentoring is delivered on a 1-2-1 basis.
Often, though, mentors will deliver group mentoring workshops.
Delivering workshops takes an additional skill. Many employers, to test the delivery styles of applicants, will request for the interviewee to deliver a short interview presentation.
In addition to the presentation, there is often an interview question about group delivery.
The focus of the interview answer should be aimed at the session impact:
Example interview answer:
“As well as having (X) number of years experience mentoring in 1-2-1 situations, I am also highly experience in the delivery of groupwork.
The barrier with group engagement is the number of participants. In a 1-2-1 mentoring session, it is easy to adapt the delivery style to encourage and support the mentee.
Whereas in a group setting, it is the planning of the activity which is key. When I plan an activity I first ask about the group – do any have support needs? What are their learning styles? have they volunteered to attend the session?
To plan the session in full, i think about the desired outcome and how I can embed visual, audio and kinesthetic learning styles. I also think about any objections or challenges the participants may have and think of ways to overcome this.
An example of this is working with introverted pupils. As I am experienced with this, I know to ask the group a question IE anyone can answer, and then to follow by asking individuals questions to help engage the whole class.
Last week I was working with one group to help them think about (career goals, improving exam results, motivation, etc). The group was made up of (age/gender/generic barriers). To engage the group I (told stories/created a game/presented facts/played a video).
I also set individual and team tasks, and walked around the room looking for anyone who would need support.
Because I knew that (group/person) had (describe barrier) I (state actions took) which resulted in (positive outcome).”