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Mamasita516
Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 56 Location: Kansas City, MO
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Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: Venting my nervousness!! |
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Okay I officially have an interview with ECC and I am so nervous. I think what I am dreading most is the demonstration lesson. Does any one have any words of wisdom they wouldn't mind sharing with me? |
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callmesim
Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 279 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:12 am Post subject: |
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If you do a search you'll find quite a few previous posts about the process. Personally, I found the roleplay lesson the easiest part. Just remember to:
- smile
- talk naturally
- don't patronise your "students"
- enjoy yourself. If you're having harmless fun then chances are the students are too.
- don't be afraid to make yourself look a little silly. If the brief is you're teaching kids, do things that would entertain kids like big actions and facial expressions.
Good luck and let us know how you go. |
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medi
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 10
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Don't forget to be active when others are doing their demo lesson (while your pretending to be a student). Just be enthusiastic, but not over the top  |
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ndorfn

Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 126
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Try and be super enthusiastic and energetic in the demo lesson, especially if the intverview is for a kids teaching job. Keep it going fast as this is what you'll need to do in reality. |
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gogolucky26
Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 16
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Okay so I had my Interview for ECC in CANADA a few weeks ago. It was not as bad as I thought It was going to be. As a matter of fact it was the most easy going interview process I ever went through. All the other canidates were nice and I felt like I was in school rather than an interview. So the best thing is to relax and be cheerful and be PREPARED! So this is how the interview went
1. General Info and Q & A - Interviewer gave us ECC general info which he let us read for 1/2 hour than we asked questions. This took all morning, so look interested (try not to fall asleep and ask questions!
2. Demostration- Was actually the part of the interview I was dreading but it turned out to be the most fun part. The interviewer did a demostration first. Then we took a break. So you have time to prepare and you have a general idea of what to do. He gave us props that we could use. Each canidate was given a topic ( food, animals, feelings..).
My advice be energetic, use props, show your energy and smile...smile smile. If you get stuck...do not show it and get fustrated. Work through it and stay positive. Don't go too fast.. go slow, The demo was for seven minutes. You get points for going first. I went second. If you do not want to go first, thats fine, I would try not to go last. The sooner to get it over with. One thing that made me a little nervous, was the interviewer, taking notes and looking at us with a blank face. and your thinking to yourself ..Did I do okay?, but at the end the interviewer tells you how it went and what you can work on.
THE DREADED GRAMMER TEST- Okay people do not be fooled this test is designed to trick you up...the interviewer even said it. Trust your gut! This was the only part i hated, there is no way to really study for it. Its a 100 ques, multiple choice..so you have room to make errors. I know you thinking multiple choice is not so bad. Okay if the test was mainly for example a sentence...and you had to identify the verbs, and they gave you words in the sentence to pick from than it would have been fine. Instead it was long senteces, with words underlined and you had to pick which word or phrase that should be corrected. Some I knew right away. Some I had to read out loud to myself, to see what did not sound right. Just go with your instinct. Then you had multiple choice of mispelled words, this part is fine, and I am a bad speller, but if I see two words on the paper, like the test ..I know which is spelled wrong. Then you had a paragraph of underlined words and you had to identify the grammer term (noun, past progressive, and so on) This part I knew I had all of them right. Study for this part. The first few chapters of English Grammer for Dummies helped me ace this part. Then came definitions of education terms that I knew nothing about. Take your time on this part, I used a piece of scrap paper, so I did a process of elimination. In the end I only had two that I was unsure of.
One to One Interview - This was easygoing as well. It was basically going over a form that you get earlier. Like what is your preference of location, housing. try to be as flexible as possible. Just stress anything important that you would like ECC to know. This is when I knew I had possibly got the job because I did really well with the Demo and the interviewer was impressed. As long as I did not bomb the grammer test, I was fine.
So that was the interview It took about a week and 1/2 to know I got the Job( the longest week and 1/2 of my life, I was worried about the grammer test). I was so excited, SO GOOD LUCK EVERYONE |
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