Interview

Questions
Professional
ism
How to be a professional
teacher?
1- come to the class on time
2- teach the students in
different way
3- make the teaching more
easy
4- make different activity
5- know what she should teach
them
6- make the lesson fun
Please give a brief description of the
school, i.e. boys/girls, size, location.
Curriculum and texts used
What different subjects are taught?

1- Name of my school
2- How many class in the
school
3- Size of my school
4- In which area is it
5- what the subject they
study
What did you enjoy most about
your practicum?

1- My students ( love and

respect)
2- My MST ( encourage and
trust)
What challenges did you face?

1- First two days

2- last day
3- students don’t know
English
What did you do to show your
commitment to your job as a
teacher in the school?

The third day in the TP

When My MST was absent
 How did you collaborate with
your MST and other teachers in
the school?

1- Did some works

2- Ask my MST
Describe a typical day in your
school.

Cook day
Healthy food
Planning for
Learning
Talk about the process of planning for lessons.
How did your MST go about this? How did you
plan for your first lesson? What did you learn
about planning during the practicum?

1- from the first week

2- save the time
What challenges did you face
when preparing your lesson
plans?

More writing more details

 Explain how you planned for
teaching speaking and listening

When I teach them reading

Implementing
and Managing
Learning
Describe how effectively you managed the
transitions between activities. What
strategies worked you?

1- Talk (MST way)

2- song (MST way)
3- bell
4- I give the students my
back
5- put my hand in my ears
 Which were the most effective
strategies you observed your MST
using in the classroom?

1- make the students think

2- make the students
discuses the answer with
their friend
Talk about one negative and one positive
experience you had in attempting to
manage negative behaviour in the
classroom.

Do like the theories of

behaviourism:
• Punishment
• Reward
 What strategies did you employ to teach speaking /listening
activities to 2L learners? What do you have to take into
consideration when teaching 2L learners speaking/listening
activities? (Discuss the theories of Behaviorism, Innatism and
Interactionist. Present 2 lesson plans that evidence this).

1- make the students think

about the lesson
2- ask some question
3- translate the story
4- study new vocab
Monitoring &
Assessment
Describe what assessment instruments you saw
your MST using when assessing the students.
What assessment instruments did you use to
help assess student learning?

1- certificate
2- Table include picture of
the students
 Why do you think it’s important
to be well organized when in the
school?

1- teacher should be more

organized it help teacher to
know how to deal with the
students. Help to finish my
all work and not be
compressed , save time to
kids.
Have your organisation and planning skills
improved? Yes - in what way? No - what
steps can you take to improve in this area?

Yes,
Start in correct time
Know what I will do for next
step
Save the time
Reflection
 Based on the comments of your MST and your own
personal reflections in this setting, what would you say
have been your particular strengths and what you feel
needs further development in subsequent TPs?

1- the relationship
2- Improve my voice
 How do you think that your own
perspectives on teaching and learning
have changed this semester?

1- It is change to the best

2- ready to be teacher
3- The student plays an
important role
 What do you think are important
things to study at college to ensure
that you are well prepared for TP?

1- How to deal with the noise

students
2- what we should do to make
the student respect the teacher
3- how I can deal with angry
teacher
4- how to make relationship
with students
Communica
tion
How effectively do you think you
communicated with your MST
throughout the placement?

1- In the WhatsApp
2- Every day in the morning
3- Share some idea to my
MST
Did you face any problems or challenges in
dealing with ……. and how did you manage
these?

1- English MST
2- Not big problem
3- Only I saw my English
MST for two days
Is there anything that you would
change next semester to ensure
this didn’t occur again?

Do more activity
Portfolio and
Observation
tasks
Choose one task that you found interesting
and tell about it. What did you learn from
doing this task?

Task Two
Refer to one artefact / other task /
journal you found interesting and
tell about it.
Task 1: School
Profile/Structure
Task 2: Class List
Task 3: Transitions
Task 4: 1- Classroom
Management – Classroom
Rules
2- English Language Lessons
Task 5: Teaching Listening
Portfolio-Assessment Criteria to
be completed post interview.

http://shahad-ismail.weebly.com
 Bring
Interview To
An End
Are there any other comments you would
like to make or ask with regards to this
teaching practice.

Yes …
My feeling ….