Interview Information
Areas focused upon in interview
Professional Attributes
This includes high expectations and commitment to realising and raising pupil potential; professional behaviour; facility for collaboration, reflection and innovation.
Professional Knowledge and Understanding
This includes subject knowledge as defined with your degree/academic qualification, but also the curriculum context of the subject – ie what and how it is taught in schools.
Professional skills in relation to teaching and learning
This includes your reflections from your own observation/experience of teaching/learning. All applicants are expected to have had some experience/observation in a primary school.
You will be assessed upon the following elements:
Subject knowledge per se - The essential knowledge and understanding needed in order to teach a subject effectively
Pedagogy: subject theory and practice - An understanding of the teaching skills and strategies needed to teach all pupils effectively
Pupils' development - An understanding of how learning is linked to pupils' development and their social, religious, etnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and contexts
Attitudes - Positive attitudes to pupils' learning that underpin subject knowledge, skills and understanding
(For more information, go to www.tda.gov.uk )
Recommended preparation for interview
In order to prepare for the interview:
- Access/read the National Curriculum on the QCA National Curriculum website http://curriculum.qcda.gov.uk/ and look at the National Strategies website http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk
- A task relating to the group interview (enclosed with your invitation letter)
- Request verification of your classroom experience from the school on headed paper to present at interview.
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