Interview questions
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| 1) Background information | Age, how long you have been a leader, and your educational background? Can you try to describe what a typical day is like for you as a leader? |
| 2) Administration/Leadership | How do you feel that the administration supports your management work? Can you describe how the collaboration with the administration takes place? How do you experience that quality reports, national tests/student results, and well-being measurements affect your work? What do you do to ensure that employees work with the goals at school? How does the leadership at the school work with data? |
| 3) Students’ learning | Can you try to describe how the leadership at the school works with the students’ learning? How do you put the different teachers’ professional skills into play? Have you set clear goals for the teachers regarding the student’s learning? |
| 4) School culture | Can you try to describe how you work with the school’s culture? O How do you work with values and communication? Can you try to come up with some examples of what initiatives you have initiated at the school to support a strong professional culture? |
| 5) Debriefing | Is it really understood that what you are experiencing is …. And … I’m about to run out of my questions. Is there anything you would like to mention in the conclusion? Thank you very much for your participation in the project |
| Section . | Examples of questions . |
|---|---|
| 1) Background information | Age, how long you have been a leader, and your educational background? Can you try to describe what a typical day is like for you as a leader? |
| 2) Administration/Leadership | How do you feel that the administration supports your management work? Can you describe how the collaboration with the administration takes place? How do you experience that quality reports, national tests/student results, and well-being measurements affect your work? What do you do to ensure that employees work with the goals at school? How does the leadership at the school work with data? |
| 3) Students’ learning | Can you try to describe how the leadership at the school works with the students’ learning? How do you put the different teachers’ professional skills into play? Have you set clear goals for the teachers regarding the student’s learning? |
| 4) School culture | Can you try to describe how you work with the school’s culture? O How do you work with values and communication? Can you try to come up with some examples of what initiatives you have initiated at the school to support a strong professional culture? |
| 5) Debriefing | Is it really understood that what you are experiencing is …. And … I’m about to run out of my questions. Is there anything you would like to mention in the conclusion? Thank you very much for your participation in the project |
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