Idea's for demo when applying for teaching job

[advancebooking]

Hi there

I write to ask if you can give idea's about a suitable demonstration that I might have to give next week at a school. It is my understanding that a demo must last 15 to 20min? It might be in front of 12 year olds - obviously with the boss watching.

I appreciate any idea's or advice you can give.

cheers

[sirchai]

That's not very difficult. Make a real lesson plan, choose for example nationalities/countries. .Thai/Thailand, Laos/Laotian, etc.....

start your demo lesson that could also go on for an hour with your introduction, then a warm up.Also prepare a short, but more difficult lesson, for example the Five Senses.

You can go on and on and on....sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell...you can come up with great ideas. Tongue..taste buds...tasting sour sweet, bitter and salty....taste and smell work together..etc.....

Please see: http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/taste_buds.html

Speak clear and slowly, make sure that the kids will understand you. Ask some kids some simple questions and you'll know their level of English.

Please don't make some weird head and shoulders, knees and toes bs, I had to watch too many lessons now and it's not suitable for grade six.

Twelve year old kids are usually in grade six. You might have the brightest ones in your demo lesson.

Divide your lesson into different parts and don't be nervous. It's a piece of cake. Good luck and welcome to teaching.-

Edited April 20, 2014 by sirchai

[masuk]

I wish you good luck.

However, someone might notice that you throw apostrophes around a bit, and correct you on that.

It's "ideas", not "idea's".

Sorry to be picky, but I once had a senior teacher who threw in an apostrophe before almost every "S" she saw.

A good book to read up on such things is "Eats, shoots and roots". Amazing what a wrong comma can suggest!

Suggest you open up with telling the students about yourself, but if they're 12yo Thais, I doubt they'll understand much. Then turn the tables and encourage them to talk and tell you about themselves.

Or, obtain some large pictures, and put these on the board with some blu tack, and slowly explain that this is a bottle, this is a can, and get them to repeat.

Avoid the temptation to be a singing, dancing monkey. Let the students do some talking.

[art vandelay]

content simple introduction tasks for elementary level students.

the boss will want to see you have the attention of the students, confidence in the classroom, good classroom management, active and involved students and most importantly students speaking english.

make sure you dont talk too much. 30% teacher talking/70% student talking should be achievable with introduction type tasks.

obviously have a lesson plan; tasks, timings, lesson objectives etc. and to really impress the boss i'd give him a copy of my plan at the start of the lesson.

make sure you have a good mixture of activities; speaking, listening, writing, reading etc.

good luck!

[Scott]

I view a lot of demonstrations and here are some things you should not forget to do.

First, be clear what the topic of the lesson is. It's a good idea to write it on the board. I've seen a lot of demos where I wasn't completely sure what the applicant was doing until it was over.

Two, have a lesson plan for the admin that is clear and concise.

Three, if you have vocabulary words that will be a part of the lesson, write them on the board, pronounce them, and possibly have the students spell them. Depending on the school, you might want to have a definition in Thai. Where I work, this isn't permitted by foreign teachers, but I am still impressed that someone took the time to get the term translated.

And as others have said, make sure that your students are doing a fair amount of speaking, even if it is only repeating.

It's hard to plan a lesson unless you know the level of the class. Our twelve year old students understand English quite well. Another school nearby, they are much further behind. You should be able to gauge it depending on whether it is an EP/Bilingual/mini-English program, etc. .

[sirchai]

Finally, please don't forget that also Thai kids wanna have fun. Keep it funny. Smiling kids are good kids.-

[DogNo1]

Sorry, but the correct title of the book is "Eats, Shoots and Leaves. "

[masuk]

Sorry, but the correct title of the book is "Eats, Shoots and Leaves. "

Hmmm. Must have been the Aussie Version. But yes, you're right.

I can remember our English Professor discussing this very topic. I guess it got our attention.

Anyway, a good book

[attrayant]

Here's an off-the-wall idea that worked for me. This won't be a good idea if you're delivering the demo to actual students, but it's good if your audience is other teachers and school staff.

Check out Merriam-Webster's "Ask the Editor" videos. Not all of them are appropriate, but many are. "That versus Which" is a good one. The one about flat adverbs is good, too. You can get some delivery and style pointers from the video as well.

Pick one that you feel comfortable with and use it as a skeleton. Add your own material to it - questions, examples, etc. Don't memorize it - that will come off sounding too rehearsed. Use it as a starting point.

This worked well for me because the position I was slated for was TOEIC test preparation, so I figured I'd be expected to deliver a more sophisticated discussion-type lecture rather than an basic a-b-c grammar lesson. It might be good for those applying for university jobs, too.