For any job field or profession you go to, the interview is the most important phase of the recruitment process. It is a form of human interaction which allows the applicant to expand and list all the qualities, skills, and qualifications that they have mentioned in your resume.

Like all other professions, every teaching recruitment process conducts interviews for the teachers who have applied for the job. Let us discuss some tips and techniques which one can follow to present themselves effectively and best in front of the interviewer and other educational authorities. This will help them to portray their teaching skills and capabilities better.

Tips for clearing a teaching interview

1. Research about the educational institution in advance

The educational institution where you are going for the interview, search about it in advance. In an interview, the employer or the authorities ask you several questions. Many questions such as " why do you want to work here, what you know about our institution, etc" can be answered better.

By knowing the structure, events, history, achievements, extra curriculum, and curriculum activities, the applicant can improve the quality of his or her answers. With this knowledge, you can relate and speak about how your skills and abilities match with the school's functioning and how you are a proper fit for the interview post. From the internet or on the official school website, you can read this information.

2. Maintain appropriate dressing

Whenever going to any professional place for the interview, maintaining appropriate dressing is very necessary. Educational institutions are the places where students are trained for discipline, decorum, and other personality traits and, having teachers possessing the same skills is important. Therefore the most important thing you have to remember while going for an interview is to wear the right clothing. If a school only allows traditional, you can wear a saree, and if formal clothing is also allowed, you can go for a pantsuit, shirt, and pants, etc.

3. Be confident throughout the interview

Confidence is the key to success. To give your interview effectively, being confident is very important. Every education institution wants to hire confident teachers. Such teachers are quite effective at teaching, and make classes more engaging and meaningful. To grab the teaching job, one must be confident throughout the interview. Even if you face difficulty in answering a question or making a mistake, confidence will not make that a highlight. You will continue to look presentable and accurate at answering by being confident.

4. Maintain eye contact with the interviewer

Eye contact is an important nonverbal component of communication that shows how well you listen, respond and present yourself. Looking here and there may show that you are poor at listening, communicating, or are less attentive. It can also be a lack of confidence. The interviewer might feel that you are not fit for the teaching vacancy.

To prevent this from happening and giving a successful interview, you must maintain eye contact with the person taking your interview. This will help you to understand the questions asked better. And this will make you give quality answers with better confidence. In present pandemic times, interviews and schooling is happening online. If you are also giving your interview via an education app, this tip will surely be of great help.

5. Be positive and smile

We all know positivity plays an important role in our lives. For academic as well as personal growth and development of the students, positivity is a must to adapt. And therefore all educational institutions want to hire teachers who have positive thinking and attitude. Through your answers, don't show any negative thoughts, self-doubt, or overthinking. Give your answers which are positive, and more meaningful. Keep smiling in between to look kind and polite.

6. Be ready for a microteaching session.

If you are selected for a teaching interview, the next step is giving a micro-teaching demo. Micro Teaching is a process that comes under the teacher training and recruiting process where the teacher who comes for the interview teaches a topic to a group of students for a short period of time.

You will be given enough time for this. In the available time, prepare your microteaching lesson plan, by analyzing and planning the topic which you want to present and other activities which you want to conduct. This step of the recruitment process will help the teachers to show their teaching skills and abilities, furthermore, improve by the feedback received from the supervisor as well the students.

Conclusion

All the above-mentioned tips and techniques will help the teachers to clear the interviews to grab their dream teaching jobs and vacancies. By following these tips, one can present, communicate and give quality and valuable answers to the question raised in a teaching interview.

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