Tips to Get The Right Teaching Job

Teaching is one of the most competitive fields to get into nowadays and therefore it is absolutely vital that you show off your skills in your application and write why you would be the best person for the job. Try and market and sell yourself really well so that your application stands out among the rest of the applications that have been received.

Examples of the types and category of questions that you may be asked in an interview or application for a teaching position are highlighted below.

Training and qualifications

You may be asked for elaborations about any practical training that you have completed and specific qualifications as well as any best practices that you could bring to the institution regarding teaching and meeting the teaching targets.

Teaching skills and experience

This will mainly cover things on your CV as well as any general experiences that you have had including things like the different aspects of teaching you have been involved in from creating the material to setting the standards and helping students pass the subject with flying colours. Talk about mentoring and how you’ve helped various students progress fairly quickly to the standards that they are at now and giving examples of subject matters that you have taught including any challenges and how you overcame them.

The core competencies that you feel a teacher should possess

This looks at things like ability to communicate with large groups of students as well the ability to communicate a particular teaching subject to the student to help them grasps the subject matter. Looking at lecture management skills and lesson planning as well as general time management skills to manage time across teaching, research oriented and administration related tasks.

Personality and motivation and passion for teaching

This would involve looking at how you can manage different behaviours and opinions about the subject area as well as talking more about why you chose the subject area to teach, how that subject area motivates you and the kinds of things that you incorporate into the teaching such as the use of interactive tools to make the subject more engaging.

The interview may conclude with queries on the various issues facing the education sector in general and how these can impact the educational institution that you teach in.
Bob Brightside


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Bob Brightside, Educational recruitment tips is one of the many topics that Bob writes about. If you would like to know more about university teaching jobs & lecturer vacancies or lecturing and assessor jobs and vacancies, please visit the Protocol National website now.