The 10 Most Bizarre Teacher Interview Questions – What Would You Have Said?

Have you ever paused in an interview after being asked a strange question that felt awkward or out of place? You’ve got company.

A teacher recently took to Reddit asking, “What was the weirdest interview question you had for a teaching job?” Here are the top-voted responses.

One teacher confessed, “What would you do if a student died the week before finals week? It was an odd random question and challenging to answer as I had just had a student die a couple of weeks before. My second student died that year.

Dying Student

My response to the question was just this awkward response that started with, “Well, I had a student take their own life two weeks ago, so let me start with what I did for that. I don’t know what they wanted out of the question. I didn’t get that job either.”

Another volunteered, “If you walked into the classroom and there was only a potato, what would you do to teach?” Several teachers were confused. One confessed, “I thought they meant you had to teach the potato instead of children.”

Potato Teaching

“How many hours I’d be willing to work,” shared one.

Extra Hours

“I thought it was a weird way of seeing if I’d be willing to work insane hours. I answered that family was important to me. I’d be willing to stay after school some days for a task, but I wanted a healthy work-life balance. So I didn’t get the job.

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