POSSIBLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS: PRINCIPAL Post Level 4 1. Prepare a ten-minute presentation and explain your strategic plan for the next five years. The nature of presentation is your choice. 2. Tell us more of your views about discipline in a modern multi-cultural school, with specific reference to your school's code of conduct to maintain discipline. 3. Why is it important that a principal should know what is going on in every classroom and what will you do to obtain that? 4. The Department of Education sends a letter to the 3 Afrikaans Schools in your area indicating that one of the 3 schools must become a dual medium school from 2018. What is your strategy? 5. Name four main characteristics of an effective high school. 6. Is a principal the key role player for an effective school? Motivate yourself. 7. What are the procedures when dealing with misconduct of teachers? 8. The following scenario refers: A specific teacher on your staff has had many problems in the past with constant absence. You have already issued three warnings and a final written warning in this regard to the teacher over the past two to three years. In each case, his previous warnings had already expired when issuing a second warning. You believe that his pattern of conduct indicates absolute disregard for rules and regulations. You intend to refer the matter for formal investigation to have the teacher dismissed. 9. What is the meaning of the term 'school marketing' with specific reference to the marketing of (name of school)? 10. Relationships in a school is very important. Give us examples of how you see yourself in all these relationship structures. 11. The business sector of (name of town) is already oversubscribed in terms of sponsorships as we have two parallel medium high schools in our town. What are the implications for the school and what is your role as principal in this regard? 12. Positive teachers are the ideal. What does it mean for you and what is your role in it, with specific reference to the use of your management team? 13. The (name of school) buildings are very old and the site is 30 ha big. What are the implications of this for a principal? 14. What will be the loss to your previous school when you accept the position at (name of school) and why? 15. To obtain a goal always goes hand in hand with a bunch of tasks to be performed. What is more important to you, the task or the person who does the task? Please motivate. 16. What is your understanding of transformation and how important is it to you? 17. Do you think (name of school) has a particular character, ethos and tradition and what does it mean to you? 18. What are the main requirements of a school's budget? 19. When may a principal act outside a school's budget? 20. In terms of SASA, who is responsible for the admission of learners at a school? 21. What is the academic ethos of the school? 22. What value does sport have in a school? 23. How important is the role of culture in the education of a child? 24. How are you going to manage the provision of staff in this school? 25. How does the input of parents contribute to the welfare of staff and in general to the school? 26. How many children are in your school and what percentage do you know by name? 27. Which legacy will you leave behind at your current school when you leave? 28. What positive influences have you personally created at your current school? 29. Should the choice of subjects offered by the school influence admission requirements? 30. Do hostel facilities enhance the general "esprit de corps" at a school?