Top questions english teachers are asked at job interviews The following are common job interview questions and possible answers to give you some ideas on what to include in your responses. 

Keep in mind, these are just possibilities and should be used with discretion. Each candidate’s background, teaching style, and experiences are different, and the answers should reflect those differences. There is one thing you must remember that applies to everyone who interviews — don’t lie! Also, keep in mind, that you should tailor your answers to address the specific needs of a school or school district in which you 
are interested.

 1) Tell me a little bit about yourself.

 

 Oh, yes, this is the question that is most likely to be asked first. I call it a two minute commercial about yourself. This is a great opportunity to sell yourself to the school
district representatives. Keep in mind, if it is the first question asked, it will set the stage for the interview, so it needs to be extremely strong. Don’t be too modest. This will provide an overview, an introduction, to you. You might start by stating, “As you can see from my resume….” and then mention your degrees and certifications and give a quick run down of your relevant experience. The last 1 ½ minutes should be used to communicate your strengths and skills and what you can do to enhance education in their district. In other words, they are asking “Why should we hire you?” Practice this carefully. You need a few sentences that answer that question at the end of your response. Also, at the end, you may want to mention why you would enjoy working for the school district in the position for which they are hiring.





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learning the language can be a lot more natural as incorporation of several skills can be done automatically. For example, while reading, students may also have access to audio files of the reading text – it all depends on what have been incorporated by the developer of the interactive poster. The media to choose from include:

⋅ Video

⋅ Audio

⋅ Text

⋅ Animation

⋅ Still pictures

⋅ Borders

⋅ WordArt

An English language learning lessons created by my teacher-trainees no longer have to be the same boring non-interactive lesson. Instead these future teachers can learn from this experience to create a more interactive lesson, all in one poster.

More tips for English teachers to be more creative and innovative

Group discussion strategy is one of the fruitful ways towards effective learning. But if your students are engaging to group discussions for the first time, it might be difficult for them to feel interested in such kind of activity. Here I am speaking about learners of English as a second language (LESL). Hense, it is first essential to introduce students to this kind of activity by getting them watch how group discussion works. Give them some videos fot group discussions to watch other people discuss issues before asking them to practice it themselves. Then as ameans of encouraging and motivating students ask them to evaluate the speakers they watch in a video.

Now think of real life and interested topics to your students and ask them in small groups to speak about them. Learning the language can be a lot more natural and effective and students will enjoy the activity.

Innovative and creative English teachers ought to compine  technology with newer approaches to T&L such as Outcome-Based Learning (OBE), Student-Centred Learning (SCL), Problem-based learning (PBL), Case Study (CS) have also emerged in recent decade and research has proven that many have positive impact on learning. I strongly believe in the supremacy.

An innovator will constantly think of better ways of doing things; an innovative English professor will constantly formulate new ways and approaches to teaching and learning to maximise the output of learning.

How to be Innovative and Creative in my Teahing

Innovation and creativity are the real essense of teaching. Delivering a lecture is no longer one-way communication as it was before. Now, an english professor should be a ware of the most modernized teaching techniques and strategies. S/he should be innovative and creative; teaching and learning English would consequently sound interested to both teacher and students. 

Students are tired of the old school approach to learning a language – they want something practical, relevant and useful for their professional life. With computer being their flesh and blood; and living in the era where they are allowed to question on things and they are empowered to be partly responsible for their learning, creativity and innovation have been incorporated in my teaching and learning, assessment and supervision.

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HOW CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION SUPPORTS MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

Coupled with technology, newer approaches to T&L such as Outcome-Based Learning (OBE), Student-Centred Learning (SCL), Problem-based learning (PBL), Case Study (CS) have also emerged in recent decade and research has proven that many have positive impact on learning. I strongly believe in the supremacy of these approaches to teaching and learning as they empower students to be responsible for their own learning and help them to become active learners; sometimes getting hands-on experience, getting their hands “dirty” by doing things the way they should be rather than the way theories say they should be. Using some of the approaches mentioned, in the context of my area of expertise, students are allowed to “experiment” on the language and find out for themselves what is right or wrong as in the case of those attending the university compulsory English courses; as for my TESL teacher trainees attending my CALL classes, through these approaches, I facilitate them in discovering for themselves the language and communication tools available and to experiment on them to get a feel of using and incorporating the tools in their T&L in the future. These will be explained further in the following sub-sections

An innovator will constantly think of better ways of doing things; an innovative educator will constantly formulate new ways and approaches to teaching and learning to maximise the output i.e. learning.

As a strong believer in the supremacy of technology, namely the computer in enhancing teaching and learning especially to the Y-generation who grows with the technology in their background, the computer can be an effective tool, an agent, for learning as I have demonstrated over the years through research, paper presentation and publication I have written, how it can be very effectively used both in and out of the language classroom. With e-learning at the heart of every individual soul in this era of technology, it is then not unusual to see the extensive incorporation of e-learning in the courses that I teach.

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