I had my first interview for a math teacher position. Besides common personal questions I was grilled on my lesson plans and how I will spend 75 minute lesson time minute by minute. My IT credentials where of help of course but lack of teaching experience showed, especially when some visual aid tools were discussed. In upcoming blog posts I’ll talk more about lesson plans.
What issues should a teacher think about before a job interview? I wish I had found this site before! Especially discussions on changing career from an engineer to a teacher.
Update
I lost it! I shoot myself in the foot, saying “math lessons might be boring at times". Never ever boring! You are entertainer/teacher! Not exactly stand up comedy but close! Each time you want to say boring simply say interesting (but not exiting!). You will do yourself great service by changing your vocabulary a bit.
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Well done on a nice blog More l er. I was searching for information on astronomy for beginners and came across your post My first interview for math teacher job. - not quite what I was looking for related to astronomy for beginners but very interesting all the same!
Well, it's a new year - in fact it's almost the Chinese New Year. I'm still putting together astronomy lesson plans for the first and second semesters. This year the budget allows us to purchase a new telescope for the science group. That's great so we're still juggling the numbers how to get best bang for the buck! Not the 'big bang' you understand LOL. I'm coming down on the side of the Meade LX200GPS 12" Schmidt-Cassegrain. Let's wait and see.
If you do have a moment, please take a look at my new site on: Astronomy for Kids .
A happy new year to everyone!
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