Sample interview questions: Can you describe a time when you had to improvise and think on your feet during a lesson as a substitute teacher?
Sample answer:
During a 5th-grade science lesson on ecosystems, the planned experiment’s materials were unexpectedly unavailable. Rather than cancel the lesson, I quickly improvised an alternative activity that engaged students in the same concepts.
I used the classroom’s interactive whiteboard to display images of different ecosystems, such as forests, grasslands, and oceans. I then asked students to identify the organisms that lived in each ecosystem and the adaptations they had developed to survive.
To make the activity more interactive, I divided the class into small groups and assigned each group an ecosystem. I provided them with a variety of materials, such as construction p… Read full answer