MOCK INTERVIEW

Today we had Dr. Werba and Dr. Corrigan come and interview potential candidates for their schools.  The thought of interviews gets me all stressed and my mind spins.  Dr. Werba was a superintendent for Maple city schools and was looking for two new teacher candidates.  His teaching style and methodology school of thought was centered around direct instruction.  His personal philosophy is that students learn better through direct instruction.  However, he did say that he was open to other teacher styles if results can be proven successful within the classroom.  He did also state that students from his schools have a very high success rate on state and local exams, which has been proven from his current and former teachers.

Dr. Corrigan was a principal for a private institution whose philosophy is completely different then that of a public institution.  Her method of teaching is geared towards cooperative learning and having the students work together through exploration.  In her experience students work better through a hands on learning environment where they can feed off one another for answers and information.  While both teaching methodologies have been proven effective I feel that a combination of both would lend itself better to students.  Each student learns at a different pace in a different manner and not only being able to differentiate the lesson plan instruction but the environment in which the student learns I feel would be extremely beneficial.

            I really enjoyed the experience of the mock interview process.  When preparing for getting a job in the future it’s important to have background information on the place you are going to interview with.  I would definitely ensure that I did some research on the district that I was applying for.  It’s important to go in prepared letting the interviewer know how important their school is to you and how serious you are about making that place your home.  Competition is extreme from potential educators and you have to set yourself apart from all the other applicants.