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leenmafia · Sat 09-Dec-06, 12:59 PM

My demo teaching yesterday went better than I dared hope. I created an hour's lesson plan even though I'm only supposed to teach for 10 minutes. The reason is because I want the panel to see that what I taught (which was adjectives that describe physical appearance) can be expanded into something communicative (a game which required students to use the sentence form I taught). If there's anywhere possible to upload the whole lesson plan in this forum, I will.

Prior to the demo teaching, all candidates (only 4 of us actually) were asked to write a short essay of about 100 words on 'Students who are proficient in the English Language have better chances in jobs opportunities' (ok something like that) and we had to write 8 sentences for given sentence structures e.g. Subject+verb, Subject+verb+object, subject+verb+complement, compound sentence, complex sentence etc.

All the candidates for the post had to 'teach' in front of a panel of 3 lecturers, one by one. There were no other people in the room (which was only the meeting room actually) and so to make sure I had no awkward moments during teaching, I asked them do I treat them like real students because I had some handouts to give during teaching. They were quite a real sport during the entire teaching (although I couldn't answer one question ugh).

After that they asked 'Whether I was comfortable teaching grammar' to which I can't remember answering because the other lecturer started asking me 'Which of the language aspect do you most feel comfortable teaching? Reading, writing, speaking...' The 3rd question was regarding my teaching experience because I ever taught in 2 different states in my country, Malaysia, and so they asked the difference between the ELLs in those 2 states. Apart from that, they also asked whether I believe in translating English to another language (Malay is our 1st lg).

Finally one of the lecturers asked me 'when did you prepare this?' while pointing to my Power Point slides to which I answered 'last night'. She then nodded a few times. Ok I'm not blowing my own horn or something but I can feel that they're impressed with my handouts (I made extra copies for all 3 lecturers and put them under the appendix) and lesson plan coz I was the only candidate to do so. The rest just brought their CDs or pen drive and taught from there. One taught college writing and brought a text which was badly photocopied on the transparency. One thing I learnt when I was still studying was that during presentation, less is more. On the slides I mean. Oh well, you can't tell what these people (the panel) think anyway. Furthermore I was the only candidate holding only a degree. The other 2 candidates had Masters degree and the 4th one has a Ph.D. Keeping my fingers crossed that I can get through to the second stage of interview!

I hope my experience will be useful to future educators going for a demo teaching/ mock teaching. Good luck!

Sat 09-Dec-06, 12:59 PM	#17 (permalink)
leenmafia Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Nationality: Malaysian Occupation: Web Stalker Location: Posts: 13	Re: preparing for interview with recruiters My demo teaching yesterday went better than I dared hope. I created an hour's lesson plan even though I'm only supposed to teach for 10 minutes. The reason is because I want the panel to see that what I taught (which was adjectives that describe physical appearance) can be expanded into something communicative (a game which required students to use the sentence form I taught). If there's anywhere possible to upload the whole lesson plan in this forum, I will. Prior to the demo teaching, all candidates (only 4 of us actually) were asked to write a short essay of about 100 words on 'Students who are proficient in the English Language have better chances in jobs opportunities' (ok something like that) and we had to write 8 sentences for given sentence structures e.g. Subject+verb, Subject+verb+object, subject+verb+complement, compound sentence, complex sentence etc. All the candidates for the post had to 'teach' in front of a panel of 3 lecturers, one by one. There were no other people in the room (which was only the meeting room actually) and so to make sure I had no awkward moments during teaching, I asked them do I treat them like real students because I had some handouts to give during teaching. They were quite a real sport during the entire teaching (although I couldn't answer one question ugh). After that they asked 'Whether I was comfortable teaching grammar' to which I can't remember answering because the other lecturer started asking me 'Which of the language aspect do you most feel comfortable teaching? Reading, writing, speaking...' The 3rd question was regarding my teaching experience because I ever taught in 2 different states in my country, Malaysia, and so they asked the difference between the ELLs in those 2 states. Apart from that, they also asked whether I believe in translating English to another language (Malay is our 1st lg). Finally one of the lecturers asked me 'when did you prepare this?' while pointing to my Power Point slides to which I answered 'last night'. She then nodded a few times. Ok I'm not blowing my own horn or something but I can feel that they're impressed with my handouts (I made extra copies for all 3 lecturers and put them under the appendix) and lesson plan coz I was the only candidate to do so. The rest just brought their CDs or pen drive and taught from there. One taught college writing and brought a text which was badly photocopied on the transparency. One thing I learnt when I was still studying was that during presentation, less is more. On the slides I mean. Oh well, you can't tell what these people (the panel) think anyway. Furthermore I was the only candidate holding only a degree. The other 2 candidates had Masters degree and the 4th one has a Ph.D. Keeping my fingers crossed that I can get through to the second stage of interview! I hope my experience will be useful to future educators going for a demo teaching/ mock teaching. Good luck!