Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: What would you do if half of your class did poorly on a test? If you are asked this question in a job interview for a teaching position: What are some things you should avoid when responding to this question? What might be some important points to stress that would get the interviewer's attention? How would you respond to this question? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) As with all interview questions, acknowledge the weakness/failure, but do not focus on it. Instead, talk about the immediate and future solution. The immediate solution would be to analyze student achievement by looking at aggregated results of test. Identify the questions students had the most trouble with and remediate instruction based upon your findings. Upon completion of remediation, re-test the students. It may be a short quiz and not a full test. For the future, it is important to have a learning styles inventory on each student and understand how they best process information. This allows the teacher to differentiate instruction to ensure that each student receives information in a manner that is meaningful. Additionally, the teacher should have students complete a short pre-assessment to determine strengths and weaknesses related to the content standard(s) being covered. This will allow the teacher to focus their instructional support towards weaknesses and enrich strengths.