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gargaflute
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
Location: Montr�al, Quebec, Canada
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 Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:41 am Post subject: Interview questions |
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So I have a job interview for Suwon Elementary School.
Here's a list of questions they sent me, any suggestions?
1- Please tell us about your major, and fields of interest.
2- What do you consider your strongest asset?
3- Please tell us about your family, and where you grew up.
4- How do you prefer to dress at work, especially at school?
5- Is there any book, film or play which has affected your life?
6- When do you feel that youu are most proud of yourself?
7- What causes you stress?
8- Are you familiar with elementary school students' personality and character?
9- Please tell us what you think about elementary school students.
10- What do you feel is the most important aspect in teaching students?
11- What made you decide to become an english teacher in korea?
12- Would you be able to take part in programs offered by the school board?
13- How would you encourage students to focus on your class, when they would rather not be in class?
14- What do you feel is the best method to motivate students who don't like to study English?
15- Please tell us about your 3 strongest points as an English teacher.
16- How would you motivate students, who are afraid of learning English?
17- Tell us about your qualifications as a teacher.
18- What do you think the most important aspect in learning English?
19- How would you establish rapport with your students?
20- What do you think about Korea?
21- How do you feel about Korean culture, and what can you tell us about it?
22- How would you deal with culture shock?
P.S. I really want that job, should I offer to pay my plane ticket? |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:41 pm Post subject: Re: Interview questions |
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| gargaflute wrote: |
| P.S. I really want that job, should I offer to pay my plane ticket? |
Hell no!
Don't worry about the interview, it not so much what you say, it's how you say it. From my experience what they're evaluating is your abiliities to communicate. Speak slow and clear, enunciate everything, don't mutter or stutter. If you have a strong regional accent maybe try to smooth it out a bit. Depending on who is interviewing you they may or may not even understand everything you say during the interview. |
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gargaflute
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
Location: Montr�al, Quebec, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks but they want me to answer these questions via email. So they want to evaluate my writing abilities? |
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crisdean
Joined: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Seoul Special City
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| gargaflute wrote: |
| Thanks but they want me to answer these questions via email. So they want to evaluate my writing abilities? |
really? a written interview, that's a new one... Then I guess you have two options, you could write the truth, or you could write what you think they want to read. Ideally the two would be one in the same. In this case make sure you focus on grammer and spelling, make sure you don't have any typos.
I guess I had to write an essay for SMOE and it covered most of these things, so maybe it just the same type of requirement, wouldn't surprise me if it were just another piece of paperwork that no one will ever read. |
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caro188
Joined: 27 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Definitely do not pay for your plane ticket! It is expected that schools pay for your plane ticket to Korea. As for the interview, I'm surprised that they didn't want a phone interview. But like the above posters said, just be careful with spelling and grammar and put some thought into your answers, and I'm sure you'll do great!
Does anyone else find that the picture you send to schools seems to matter more than anything else? |
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