Teaching Assistant practice interview
Supporting classroom learning, helping pupils who need extra guidance, managing resources and following safeguarding procedures. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Junior
- 10 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A teaching assistant helps pupils take part in lessons while supporting the classroom teacher's plan. The panel wants to see patient learning support, reliable organisation, clear professional boundaries and a safe response when a pupil shares a concern.
How to prepare
- Prepare an example of helping someone understand a task without doing it for them.
- Review how prompts, visual examples and smaller steps can support different learners.
- Learn the school's stated safeguarding and behaviour procedures where they are available.
- Think about how you would record and report a useful classroom observation.
- Practise explaining how you work under a teacher's direction while still showing initiative.
Common mistakes
- Saying you would complete difficult work for a pupil.
- Promising confidentiality when a safeguarding concern must be reported.
- Interrupting the teacher instead of using discreet classroom support.
- Speaking as if the assistant works independently of the lesson plan.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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