I have an interview on Thursday morning for a position opening at a small, very small private boarding school here in town. Student to faculty ratio is 6:1. It sounds like a crazy bourgeois school. They have school SIX days a week. I have never heard of that. The position is opening because the lead teacher is retiring. Hmmm, this seems to be a reoccuring situation in my life. And the only other teacher can't teach above level two. It looks like they need someone for the higher levels, including AP which I've done (but not very well). I spoke with the assistant head of teaching and academic programs and she thinks that I'm some sort of amazing teacher that has a very current and fresh teaching methodoloy. She wants me to talk about my philosophy of teaching and methodologies, etc... Here's the problem: I don't remember what those words mean. I remember them from my boring education college classes, and I vaguely remember writing an impossibly long teaching philosophy paper, but I believe I only regurgitated what our professor wanted us to write. You know how that is. Don't judge me. You know you've done it too.
So, between now and Thursday, I've got to speak ONLY French (except at work), research as much as possible about the school, find my best teacher outfit, and come up with a teaching methodology. Any ideas?
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Teaching methodology...um...well...I think it means HOW do you teach. I'm not sure what modern methods of teaching French are, but in Ele. Ed. group work, projects, stuff like that is big. Also, self-guided research projects stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteRemember the classroom management thing we were talking about, P.A.T. time? Here is a quick website http://www.fredjones.com/PAT/_SecondaryTips.html
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WOW!!! This sounds VERY interesting! I am full of questions, but you probably don't have the answers yet! We will be praying that if it's right for you, you'll be hired!
ReplyDeleteBelow is a link that a student wrote about his teaching methodology and philosophy. I used this when I was interviewing for a teaching position. It helped to organize my thoughts and I was also able to get some ideas from it. Good luck to you!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/dliu/documents/TeachingPhilosophy-Oct07.pdf
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