🗯NQT Interview Tips🗯
From myself and @miss_alexander_nqt
We are both doing our PGCE’s at the University of Cambridge and have both secured NQT jobs for September! We wanted to collaborate on this post to put our very different interview experiences together to share our advice😊
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- Look at the website beforehand so you know their values, behaviour policy and curriculum approach. You need to have a good knowledge of the school to be able to discuss these things and show exactly why you want to work there over anywhere else!
- Dress smart but comfortably! Even if you’re doing your interview online, still dress smartly.
- Take your time to answer the questions so you can think carefully about it before you answer.
- Be confident in your answers and show you know what you are talking about.
- Add in examples of your teaching and work with children to back up your points.
- Have questions prepared to ask the interviewers. Give them something to think about too! Particularly as an NQT, ask what they can provide for you in terms of a programme and support.
- Be yourself! We chose this Bitmoji because you need to be YOU and you need to have confidence in yourself and your abilities - then this will shine through!
- If you have to teach an activity keep it simple, present the lesson plan to those observing and explain how you’d differentiate.
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Possible questions that could come up that we were asked:
- Why teaching?
- Why this school?
- What can you bring to the school?
- What is inclusion?
- What is safeguarding?
- What would you do if a child disclosed something to you?
- What kind of curriculum would you want to teach?
- How would you make that curriculum possible?
- What are your weaknesses and how could we support them in your NQT Year?
- What educational theories have influenced you?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- Describe a lesson that did not go well/ a good lesson?
- How do you motivate pupils?
- How do you develop good relationships with colleagues and children?
- How would you meet the needs of all children?
I really hope this post is helpful if you are preparing for interviews! Please leave a comment and let me know. I wish you the best of luck and please message me if you need anything!
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