Hi everyone. I recently returned to the U.S. from Korea and am interviewing for some positions teaching ESL to adults in and around NYC. I don't have much experience teaching adults, but I'd really like to give it a try. One job I'm particularly interested in has asked me to prepare the following for an interview coming up in 4 days. Any ideas anyone can offer would be much appreciated.
"1. A 3 week unit plan/outline, for a class meeting 8 hours a week, which focuses thematically on workplace topics that you choose, for a low level class of folks.
2. A 3 week unit plan/outline, also for a class meeting 8 hrs, which focuses thematically on health topics that you choose, for an intermediate or low advanced class.
Please have your unit plans include the vocab, grammar, functions, activities and assessments you hope to teach, and please make it clear which activities will be building speaking, listening, reading and writing skills.
3. Please bring a lesson plan for a 3 hour class from each of those units."
help with adult ESL interview?
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Wow!!!
WOW!!! Seems to me like that's a lot to ask. Does this mean you would have to come up with your own material without using any type of text? I've always had a text to give me the theme, grammar structure being introduced, vocabulary being introduced, and activities, but have had the freedom to suplement, leave off, and modify as seemed to fit the needs/personality of any particular class.
I don't want to discourage you, but if they want you to come up with everything on your own for every class, you might want to rethink whether this is a job you really want or not. Just becoming familiar with a text, and supplementing and modifying it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy.
If they DO use a text, maybe you could find out what it is so that you can design your unit around the one they will be doing. Even if you can't get a copy of the text, sometimes you can go to the publishers website to get some idea of the grammar structure and vocabulary etc that each unit introduces.
I'm curious as to whether others have been requested to prepare the same type of thing for an interview. Am I the only one who thinks this is an unreasonable request???
Linda
I don't want to discourage you, but if they want you to come up with everything on your own for every class, you might want to rethink whether this is a job you really want or not. Just becoming familiar with a text, and supplementing and modifying it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy.
If they DO use a text, maybe you could find out what it is so that you can design your unit around the one they will be doing. Even if you can't get a copy of the text, sometimes you can go to the publishers website to get some idea of the grammar structure and vocabulary etc that each unit introduces.
I'm curious as to whether others have been requested to prepare the same type of thing for an interview. Am I the only one who thinks this is an unreasonable request???
Linda