No Experience in Teaching? No Problem!

No Experience in Teaching? No Problem! (Becoming a TEFL/TESOL teacher is easy)

 If you don't yet have an job offer for a teaching position perhaps you should consider teaching TEFL/TESOL or IELTS, TESOL, or TOEIC exam prep classes abroad.  

Paradise is the place you want to be!

We at Paradise TEFL  (a fully accredited and globally recognized TEFL program) strive for our students  to learn conversational English with the latest proven strategies and methods, but share up to date pedagogy and strategies as part of our teachers career development through the latest teaching paradigms. Graduates with these additional certifications have the advantage of substantially increasing their marketability and employment status. This is a limited offer available only at the TEFL Chiang Mai location. Improve your chances of getting a good job with a higher level of pay by enrolling today!

The following is a list of questions you may want to consider in preparation for a teaching position in ESL or other specific subjects as well as your philosophy and pedagogy of education.

Teacher’s Interview questions

1. Personal values and philosophy of education

1. Tell us about yourself.
2. How do you describe your role as a teacher?
3. If you could design the ideal classroom for the elementary grades what would it look like?
4. Tell us what you know about differentiated instruction.
5. What are the most important or worthwhile qualifications of a good teacher?
6. Describe your student teaching successes and failures?
7. What do you know about international education?
8. What do you know about multiple intelligences?
9. What are your personal strengths and weaknesses?
10. What’s your experience with bilingual education?

1. Academic programs: reading; writing; math; science; educational technologies

1. What type of reading program did you use in student teaching?
2. If I walked into your classroom during reading time, what would I see?
3. What would your math class look like?
4. What do your students write about?
5. What do you know about the phonics approach?
6. How would you proceed to teach reading?
7. Describe a good lesson, explain why it was good.
8. How would you go about planning a lesson?
9. How would you individualize a curriculum for students at various levels?
10. How would you identify special needs of students?
11. What experience have you had incorporating educational technologies in a classroom?
12. What methods have you used or would you use to assess student learning?
13. Which subject area do you believe is your strength, which is your weakest? What steps will you take to improve in this area?
14. What grade level would you be most comfortable teaching?
15. Tell us about your experience with students from diverse cultural backgrounds.

1. Classroom management

1. What methods do you use for classroom management?
2. Give me an example of a rule or procedure in your classroom?
3. How do you determine the classroom rules?
4. Describe one difficult incident with a student, and how you handled it.

1. Extracurricular involvement

1. Tell us about your social involvement.
2. Have you coached a team or a school club before? Tell us about it?
3. If not, what do you think you could contribute to the school’s extracurricular activities?

1. Team work

1. What are your thoughts on team-teaching?
2. How would you handle difficult parents?
3. How do you see the role of a school principal, head teacher?
4. What role do you usually play in a team?

1. Why do you want to work for our school?
2. Do you have any questions for us?

Many of those who already have experience as TEFL instructors

 are finding that becoming a certified TEFL trainer

 is another opportunity and feather in their cap in terms of meeting the demand of TEFL instructors (who are leaving their home countries and working abroad) by teaching others how to teach TEFL effectively. Whatever plan of action an unemployed educator decides to take, in general, the more accredited certifications, flexibility toward global relocation and related experience one maintains, the easier it becomes to find work. Good luck, and be sure to check out our prices and compare them against all of the other TEFL programs out there. Whether you are looking for On-site, Virtual, or On-line programs, you will find!