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Written task at interview..

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TeaCoffeeCakeGinWine · 13/02/2018 19:35

.. any thoughts on what this might be? Do you use written tasks at interviews at your school? I have been told I will have to do one at an interview I have coming up and am trying to prepare myself by running through the billions of different possibilities in my head of what it could involve.. 😫

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LooksLikeImStuckHere · 13/02/2018 19:37

What’s the job?
I had to do a ‘next steps’ plan for a child with SEN...

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TeaCoffeeCakeGinWine · 13/02/2018 20:04

It’s for a secondary teaching position

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TeaCoffeeCakeGinWine · 13/02/2018 20:04

I’m hoping it won’t be a next steps plan as I might struggle to do one of those

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tulippa · 13/02/2018 20:32

It could be anything - planning/assessment data analysis perhaps? I had one recently where I had to do an exam paper (Year 6 SATS for a primary teaching job).

Jeffers3 · 13/02/2018 20:35

Mine was to assess a piece of work.

Hopeful16 · 13/02/2018 20:36

Have heard of applicants being asked to write a letter introducing themselves to parents.

shushpenfold · 13/02/2018 20:53

If it’s for s senior post, it might be an in-tray exercise, such as ‘you arrive at school to be greeted by the following issues...6 scenarios (naffed off parent, broken down minibus for a school trip, safeguarding complaint etc) Please details how you would deal with each.

shushpenfold · 13/02/2018 20:55

Sorry, meant to say that the exercise tests your prioritisation skills....can you desk in the right way; delegate, leave the oddbone for a day etc.

shushpenfold · 13/02/2018 20:55

Odd one not oddbone!

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TeaCoffeeCakeGinWine · 13/02/2018 21:02

Thanks for your replies! For some reason I am really worried about it. It’s silly really as I am an intelligent, articulate person but I haven’t come across something like this before which is why I’m so worried. What if I can’t do it?!! Just trying to get back into it all after maternity leave and worried my brain has fried somewhat.

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user1483390742 · 14/02/2018 08:22

I had an hour to:
-Assess a piece of work
-Reply to ficticious letter from a parent about their child being bullied
-Write an end of year General Comments report

Got the job!
Good luck!

BobbinThreadbare123 · 14/02/2018 16:42

I've had to plan the term's work in my subject and write out a SoW of a topic etc. One of those tasks really helped to get me the job and one of them was definitely because the school hadn't a clue what to teach in that subject and got us interviewees to do it!

Rainbowcolours1 · 14/02/2018 18:48

I'm interviewing tomorrow. They will have three tasks, one is a number of scenarios to respond to, one is a data analysis task and the last is a book scrutiny. They are all linked to the post they are being interviewed for.

GHGN · 14/02/2018 22:08

Mark some homework
Reply to emails
Data analysis
I was once asked to sort out some topics into a sow.
If it is a post like deputy HOD/HoD, it could be replying to a complain.
One time, after replying to an email, I was asked to teach a lesson with 5 minutes notice. I told them it wasn't a realistic scenario for a HoD post as I would normally have less than 1 minute.

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