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.Interview for a teaching job 2020 - number 2 in the series "A Teaching Job".Interview for a teaching job is a comprehensive guide to interviews for a teaching or leadership post in a school or college. Both interviewers and interviewees will find useful information and guidance here. Check out the reviews!Theo Griff has several decades of experience as a middle and senior leader in a range of education establishments: state school, independent school, tertiary college, sixth-form college and university, and has worked as a consultant on staff appointments to both schools and candidates, in the UK and abroad. During this time, she has interviewed around a thousand candidates for teaching and leadership posts, and is now sharing with you the secrets to success. Full of new tips and suggestions, this clear guide is comprehensive and thorough; it gives specific advice that make you take a fresh look at how to prepare your interview and then face the panel.Interview for a teaching job is the essential handbook that will give you insider information about all the stages of shortlisting, interviewing, decision-making before that all-important telephone call with the good news. It shows you how to prepare so that you can perform well and demonstrate to the panel that you are the right choice for appointment.In Interview for a teaching job you will learn, among others:•Where not to look for interview advice and observed lesson ideas•Common misconceptions about references•Longlisting and shortlisting•When will you hear that you’ve been shortlisted for interview?•What if you have a clash of interviews, or your favourite later?•The observed lesson•Student panel•Meeting colleagues•Written task•Withdrawing before the interview•Some things that you probably do not know about the interview panel•How to cope with inappropriate questions•The 5 mistakes that you make in an interview•What to wear to the interview•Do the smell test•The wrong sort of talking•The right sort of preparation•The best question to be asked at an interview•Putting the preparation into practice •The wrong questions at the end•How is it decided whom to appoint?•The telephone call•Asking for feedback•Internal interviews and internal candidates•Interviews for independent school•Interviews by Zoom, FaceTime, Skype etc•Preparation for the SLT interview•The SLT selection process•Activities for SLT selection days•Why you were asked not to come to the second stage SLT interviewSome comments from Senior Leaders in schools and college:Headteacher of large secondary school: Clearly written and comprehensive, this is a treasure chest of advice, tips and insider information for the candidates. The perspective of an experienced interviewer is invaluable for novice interviewers too.Consultant, Ambition School Leadership (formerly Future Leaders): I'd make this book compulsory reading for all PGCE students - and for the NPQH, for that matter. I work with senior leadership candidates and it would make my life so much easier if they all read and used the advice here.Vice-Principal, Sixth Form College: I was surprised by how much I learned, and how much I enjoyed reading this book, since I thought I was pretty experienced in interviewing, and knew a lot about it already.Secondary headteacher in the North: Theo, it's fabulous! I really, really enjoyed reading it, which is remarkable and to your credit, given how familiar I am with the topic.This is the companion book to Applying For a Teaching Job 2020, also available on Amazon Kindle..
