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Awful interview today!

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teacher582 · 19/07/2023 17:35

I know there is an education board on mumsnet, but posting here for traffic sorry.

I had an interview today and I’m not sure how I feel. It’s the first interview I went to for a long long time. I’ve been doing supply so not completely out of the loop when it comes to education.

It was a little “different”. For starters, I did the lesson to members of staff rather than the kids which I really wasn’t expecting. I prepared a slideshow which they didn’t want to see as they wanted me to “run through the lesson as I would with kids”. I was really finding it difficult tbh.

I don’t feel I did very well at all. It was so awkward and difficult! I find it so much easier to engage with kids rather than a fake lesson.

I don’t know what I’m looking for by posting this but I feel my confidence has taken a knock as interviewer was asking me “would you be teaching the kids like you are now? Would you have notes in your hand?”. Of course I wouldn’t do any of this.

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teacher582 · 19/07/2023 18:00

They looked at lesson plans but I feel if I had the chance to teach the kids it would have been amazing as the first part of the lesson was very hands on. It just didn’t work with me “running through” it.

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24Dogcuddler · 19/07/2023 17:53

Nothing to do with special ed. Majority of my teaching career was in special.
Really not good they made you feel like that sounds like a terrible experience.
Hopefully the memory will fade and be replaced by more positive experiences.
Did they even look at what you prepared/ lesson plan etc?

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teacher582 · 19/07/2023 17:46

@24Dogcuddler thank you. It was a special needs school maybe that’s why. But even still they can’t see my teaching ability from what I did today. It was awful! I keep getting flashbacks of holding the printout of my slideshow! If I was allowed to use the slideshow it would have been easier as my mind just went blank. I must have come across as such a rubbish teacher but I know I’m not as bad as they saw.

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24Dogcuddler · 19/07/2023 17:42

That sounds unusual and must have been off putting. I don’t see how they could tell how you would be in a class, behaviour management, use of questioning etc.
Don’t let it knock your confidence. Put it down to experience and move on.
If they didn’t want to see you interact with and teach children maybe you have had a narrow escape.

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