teaching

Question 1

What would you see at the main challenge to teaching the students here at X?

Question 2

Tell me about a time when you have had to handle a difficult tutorial dynamic. What
was it and how did you handle this?

Question 3

Can you give an example for a class/ lecture that went well, and what can you do to
achieve this?

Question 4

What do you see yourself teaching here?

Question 5

What do you find are the main challenges when teaching a large number of students
and how do you overcome these?

Question 6

Tell me about any collaborative working that you have done whilst teaching. Were
then any particular challenges to working collaboratively and how did you overcome
these?

Question 7

This role has a substantial amount of teaching. How do you plan to manage such a
teaching load with publishing?

Question 8

If you could teach a completely new course at X what would it be and why?

Question 9

Have you developed any learning materials? [Were they successful?]

Question 10

If we asked you to plan an 8-lecture series for first-year undergraduates as part of X
course, drawing on your own particular specialism, what would you suggest?

Question 11

How would you attract new students to this department / your subject?

Question 12

What have you learnt about teaching from your students

Question 13

Have you supervised graduate students and how did you find this experience?

Question 14

How would you go about motivating a research student who was going through a
particularly low point in their doctorate?

Question 15

What do you do to get the two students at the back who aren’t saying anything to
contribute?

Question 16

What innovative teaching would you bring?

Question 17

Please introduce yourself