Entering a TEFL Job Interview Prepared and Confident

Getting and advanced TEFL Certification opens doors that might otherwise have been off limits to teachers with only a basic level of experience and training. For those who don't already know, TEFL Chiang Mai offers our basic TEFL certification is one of the most affordable accredited TEFL courses offered anywhere. (In fact the Chiang Mai course is 5,000 THB less than other Paradise TEFL locations in Thailand and about $333 USD less than other locations in Asia!)

In addition to the substantial savings over other programs all over the world, TEFL Chiang Mai in particular is offering the 

Advanced TEFL Certification for the same price as the basic certification when you enroll now and attend class before December 2011. This means that in addition to the basic TEFL certification you will also receive authorization to teach Business English, English for Special Purposes, English for Academic Purposes, Teaching English for Young Learners, Teaching IELTS Prep, Teaching TOFEL Prep, Teaching TOEIC Prep, and Teaching PET Prep. 

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 higher a higher level of pay by enrolling today!

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 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.

We at TEFL Chiang Mai English Language Certification  (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.

WHY? (Because education matters!) Graduates earn higher levels of income (plain and simple)

 

 

Once you have gotten certified it pays to be prepared for a TEFL/TESOL job Interview by thinking through a potential quandary of questions ahead of time. Here is a list of  questions a headmaster provided me with before an interview at a bilingual international school. There is also a list of questions you as the employee may want to ask of the school administrator(s) responsible for the hiring. The more you are prepared the better chances you will have of nailing the job that really meets your individual needs.

 

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. What is your personal educational philosophy?
3. If you could design the ideal classroom for the elementary grades what would it look like?
4. What type of reading program did you use in student teaching?
5. If I walked into your classroom during reading time, what would I see?
6. Tell me what you know about differentiated learning.
7. Which subject area do you believe is your strength, which is your weakest? What steps will you take to improve in this area?
8. What are the most important or worthwhile qualifications of a good teacher?
9. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a teacher?
10. Describe your student teaching successes and failures?
11. Describe a good lesson, explain why it was good.
12. How would you go about planning a lesson?
13. How would you individualize a curriculum for students at various levels?
14. How would you identify special needs of students?
15. What methods do you use for classroom management? Describe one difficult incident with a student, and how you handled it.
16. How would you handle difficult parents?
17. Give me an example of a rule or procedure in your classroom?
18. What methods have you used or would you use to assess student learning?
19. What do you know about multiple intelligences?
20. Tell us about your experience with students from diverse cultural backgrounds.
21. What experience have you had incorporating educational technologies in a classroom?
22. What grade level would you be most comfortable teaching?
23. What are your thoughts on team-teaching?
24. What role do you usually play in a team?
25. Tell us about your social involvement.
26. Why do you want to work for our school?
27. How do you handle classroom discipline?
28. Do you have any questions for us?

Question 1 - What are your thoughts on team-teaching

 

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?

 

 As part of TEFL Chiang Mai's goal to increase cultural and religious sensitivity among our participants, we also offer a TEFL Buddhist Exchange program where future TEFL teachers have the opportunity not only to become certified instructors but to participate as student's of the Buddhist philosophy and tradition with daily monk chats and dharma talks to better understand the religious beliefs which permeates our student's lives through out many parts of South East Asia. For more information and registration for this, or any of the "Paradise TEFL" franchise programs, please don't hesitate to contact us today!