Interview for Pgce primart

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Hi all, I have an interview next week for a place at university from primary teaching. Does anyone have any ideas re what to wear and what the day will be like. I have to prepare a five minute presentation on how a
Teacher inspired me from my experience as a student and how
I would feed that into my own teaching. If anyone has gone through this recently I would love your feedback :)

I was interviewed last year for secondary. If my memory serves me correctly I was obviously asked why I wanted to be a teacher, why I was leaving my current well paid profession, what I thought were the qualities someone needed to have to be a good teacher, and what qualities could I bring, I was asked to talk about the best place I'd been too and also describe somewhere else to a pupil that would inspire them to want to visit it, Id done some observation days what was good, what concerned me? I was asked about my previous experience of children and schools. It was very informal we all sat drinking tea and eating a biscuit. I dressed fairly smartly I think but then I do anyway unless I'm gardening. I was also asked to do a subject specific presentation but we ran out of time!
Good luck. Be yourself that's what they want to see.

I was asked about my thoughts on a current issue in education, to talk about a teaching experience (either witnessed or had) that had affected me (and they seemed to like some degree of analysis of that) and about my perceived strengths and weaknesses with regard to teaching.

They seem to like any evidence you can produce as to organisational skills and resilience, too!

Dress-wise: I wore 'teacher clothes', ie. smart casual. I think I wore a dress and cardigan/jersey jacket. Lots of people in trousers and tops. No suits that I can recall.

Thinking back, what they also seemed to like was some degree of familiarity with current ideas about pedagogy and research into education. Feedback and growth mindset seem to be the mantras today. One of the students talked about the importance of producing a mindset in children where they took on responsibility for their own learning, and about the importance of teaching being about 'learning how to learn'. That was very positively received.

Ooh that's brilliant - thank you!!

I was advised on a teacher training open morning to be familiar with 1 current debate in teaching, but was never asked about it at my interview
Some also said they'd ask you to sit a practice QTS literacy and numeracy test apparently to see if your going to need help passing them.