- 1). **Highlight your qualifications**
Highlight your qualifications during the interview. If you have had any leadership roles as a teacher or administrator give emphasis on those skills during the interview. - 2). **Discuss unique situations**
Tell the human resource director and school board officials what you have done uniquely and what you have been able to contribute to a school system in the past. This will help you stand out among your competition. - 3). **Talk about handling difficult situations**
Tell the interviewer about times when you effectively handled difficult situations whether it be classroom management or curriculum and instruction. Administrators almost always handle difficult situations. - 4). **Discuss what's new**
Discuss also during the interview what types of committees you have
been on. Talk about types of work that you helped spearhead throughout the division whether it be a new technology program or a new after school program. - 5). **Handle difficult questions**
If you are asked a seeming difficult question, try to answer it as best that you can. Such a question may arise like: Have you worked with an academically poor school. Now, if you have not been a leader to help an academically poor school to succeed that is o.k. You could answer by discussing a similar situation. You may answer this way: No, but I did have a class that did not perform as well as a whole. I worked through that by giving the students assessment tests to see what areas they were weak in. Also I paired a few stronger students with the weak ones so that they could team together. That way the successful students could help their struggling peers.
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