Practice prompts based on occupational tasks
These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for special education teachers, secondary school. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.
1. Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?
2. Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.
3. Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, and social development.
What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.
4. Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?
5. Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.
6. Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?
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Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
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Questions to ask the interviewer
- Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
- How do you measure success in the first three months?
- Which tools, training and support are available for this role?
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