Making the Most of the Hiring Process

Creating an Information Rich Hiring Process

Selecting for Fit

Selecting for Fit

Hiring for fit requires finding a candidate with the needed skills and competencies and the attitude and values that fit with your school's culture.

Screening Candidates, a guide from Recruit Illinois.

The National Network for the Study of Educator Dispositions web site provides links (down the right side) to papers on assessing attitude and disposition.
http://www.educatordispositions.org/moodle/moodle/

There are several instruments on the market such as the Gallup Organization's TeacherInsight™ web-based tool that help assess teacher characteristics.
http://education.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=22093

M. Mark Wasicsko, The 20-Minute Hiring Assessment:  How to ensure you’re hiring the best by gauging educator dispositions, School Administrator, October 2004.

Paul B. Ash, Everything I Need to Know of a Candidate in 15 Minutes: The Fifteen Minute Superintendent Interview, School Administrator, January 2001

Landing the "Highly Qualified Teacher" Harvard Education Letter, January/February 2004. How administrators can hire-and keep-the best.