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Hi everybody. I am looking for a standarrd interview questionaire for IELTS teachers.

It doesn't really matter what form it is but if someone could email me it would be useful and grateful.

Thanks
Lionel n NZ

Hi

Have no standardised questionaire, but would recommend you look in depth at ability to deal with teaching writing, particularly paragraph development.

Best wishes
Stephen

Having thought about it, if you are going to use a standardized test (or have to write one), I'd concentrate on weeding out some of those who don't know enough about the language areas. You want to find out if they know such things as what skimming and scanning are, how a topic sentence can be limited (all eight ways), what paragraph unity is, what paraphrasing is, what listening for gist is, what listening for specific information is. However, I don't really see how you could assess whether they could teach it effectively without some form of interview. It would simply be a tool to reduce the number of candidates you have to deal with. Some form of written component could reduce the number of interview candidates still further, but at the end of the day you would still need to interview.

Best wishes
Stephen

One tool I use is to ask for a writing sample about an effective teacher they've had. This gives me a sample of their writing which I can use to evaluate their understanding of written English. It also tells me a bit about their personal teaching philosophy. Of course, they know this and can embellish accordingly, but it's a start!

Steven,

I guess that I would fail your interview because although I think I can give good answers for the other question, I don't know the eight ways in which a topic sentence can be limited. I think this idea could be useful - could you tell me the answer. Thanks

Andrew Patterson.