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Sample interview questions for the Principal and/or Responses from the Principal and/or science
science coordinator/teacher re: science provision in coordinator/teacher re: science provision in
the setting. the setting.
Is there a science coordinator and/or how many
1 specified science teachers are there in the school? 1- Yes there is science HOD, moreover
there is team leader for grade 1 and 2
What are the duties/responsibilities of the science and they are handling 3 subjects
teacher/coordinator? which they are science and Math,
English. In the school we have 10
Does she teach any, all students or just specific science teacher and 1 lab technician.
year groups?
- job description
Obtain a teaching schedule and any schemes of
work, lesson plans, software used etc. from the - As she is Science HOD , she is also a
science coordinator/teacher. teacher for grade 11 and teaching
them biology, according to her she
prefer to teach high grades , however
she do have experience of teaching
from grade 3 students and above.
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2 Who is responsible for science policy and provision 2- According to HOD school they do
within the setting? have mention and provision, but also
(Can we obtain a copy of the policy?) she creates for the science department
one, and she with science teachers are
working on it , where the one she
creates is limed with the schools one ,
because each act that they will be
doing for the department or for the
students , it must be connected with
schools mention and vision, where its
similar to it , which is teacher have
create a positive and active
atmosphere in the class, in the end of
each semester student have to move
from level to upper level.
3 Online/Blended Learning:
- According to her, they don’t have a website
Does the setting have its own website? If so, what for the science department, however the
is the URL, who created it and who is responsible school do have
for managing and updating it? http://firstacademy.org/index.php/ar/, and in
the web we can find unlike pages which as
Is there any online/blended learning taking place media page, to be connected with students
related to science? If so, how is this delivered? and their parents , so they can what is there
and what is coming up.
10 How is learning assessed in the science classroom? 10 – This is many ways that teacher is
consuming for assessing students, but there is
Is there an assessment plan for the semester? a way that all teachers are working with ,
What does it include? which is after each unit or 3 lessons , they are
11 What science professional development / training do 11- According to HOD she side that, they do
teachers currently receive or have recently had? have PDP , where in the starting of each year
How frequently and from whom did they /are they they are giving to the teachers PDP sheet
receiving this? where they have to look to them self’s and
write in which area they want to be
Do they have a document that outlines this PD? developed, or this year what is their goal ,
what they want to achieve, with the steps that
What PD do they think teachers in the setting still will aid them to achieve it .
need?
- Doing PDP plan is required form each
teacher in the school as well as HOD , and
new teachers also . school is saving the
Documents of PD and also teacher its self-do
have on copy of it , so she or he will see much
progress she or he did ?.