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Valuable advice and techniques for answering interview questions

Learn professional and personal development techniques with this easy-to-use advice on answering interview questions with confidence, for primary and secondary teachers. Education coach Simon Cooper-Hind works with interview candidates, sharing effective ways to help them prepare for, listen to, clarify and answer questions clearly, showing evidence and impact, while under interview pressure.

Answering Questions

Will two NQTs pass their induction year?

This programme examines the hopes and fears of two primary NQTs, David Freeborn and Sandra Abdulai-Saani, as their teaching skills are put to the test in the second term of their induction year. Insight is given into the typical problems most NQTs experience during observations. Induction expert Sara Bubb advises on common pitfalls and how best to prepare for the follow-up meeting. Both NQTs left their office jobs to take up teaching - David to train on a one-year PGCE and Sandra on a three year BEd. They each teach a Year 3 class in south London primary schools. For David, behaviour management has been the biggest challenge; for Sandra, differentiation is the sticky issue. This programme follows their assessment from the anxious preparation before the lesson to frank discussions in a feedback session. Will Sandra and David's observation lessons make the grade and help them pass their induction year?

Assessment and Lesson Observation

Strategy-makers, victims and former bullies discuss anti-bullying

The best anti-bullying strategies for primary and secondary remain hotly debated. Leading advocates are interviewed, including children's charity Kidscape, in this video which links with Every Child Matters. Go beneath the rhetoric and explore the key strategies on offer. Kidscape recommends a multi-layered approach including assertiveness training for victims. Also interviewed in this video are those behind the controversial "no blame" method; reformed bullies and former victims; and schools minister Jacqui Smith. And Pam Orchard, the headteacher who ordered a mass suspension of 40 girls after a single bullying incident in 2004. Each contributor reflects on the lessons learned from their experiences of bullying and gives their views on how best to beat the whole-school issue of bullying. Bullying affected one in four of the 140,000 callers to Childline in 2004.

Beating Bullying

Using body language to engage pupils in a lesson

The short video for teachers looks how body language or non-verbal communication can go a long way in motivating pupils. A drama class at Myton School in Warwick is observed and reviewed by assistant headteacher Chris Caswell, who has studied and written about body language. He highlights performance enhancing gestures, including touching the head to encourage thinking and moving an arm to 'conduct' the lesson and retain pupils' attention.

Body Language for Engaging and Motivating

Using body language to help understanding of difficult topics

Demonstrating how body language or non-verbal communication is useful for teaching and reinforcing knowledge of difficult concepts. Body language expert Chris Caswell, assistant headteacher at Myton School, observes and reviews a modern foreign languages class on verbs. He highlights how the teacher's gestures help her command the class in front of the whiteboard, and how changes to her intonation indicate when she wants pupils to listen and when she wants participation.

Body Language for Reinforcing Learning

Advice on body language techniques for teachers

How body language or non-verbal communication can improve teaching, from starting and finishing a lesson to engaging, motivating and managing them during one. Expert advice comes from Chris Caswell, an assistant headteacher at Myton School in Warwick, who's studied and written about the use of body language in the classroom. Chris, who's also a teacher trainer, observes and reviews the actions of five teachers at different stages of their lessons. The techniques he highlights include touching your head and face to encourage concentration, using hand gestures to invite participation and moving around the class to gain attention.

Body Language Techniques

Using body language to keep pupils calm at the end of a lessson

An insight into how body language techniques can help with effective management at the end of the lesson, when concentration is reduced. The closing stages of a geography lesson are observed by body language expert Chris Caswell, assistant headteacher at Myton School in Warwick. He highlights how the class is kept calm and ordered with simple arm and face gestures. He focuses on the teacher?s use of evaluation as a tool to maintain attention and organise the exit.

Body Language when Ending the Lesson

Using body language to establish relationships with pupils

The effect of body language or non-verbal communication on establishing and reinforcing relationships as a lesson gets underway is demonstrated. Body language expert Chris Caswell, from Myton School in Warwick, observes and reviews a history lesson. He highlights how the teacher uses space around the classroom to focus attention and demonstrate status, while different hand gestures and body postures encourage participation.

Body Language when Establishing Relationships

Using body language to settle pupils at the start of a lesson

A short demonstration about how body language or non-verbal communication can be used right from the beginning of a lesson to help manage and settle a class. The start of a PHSE lesson is observed and reviewed by Chris Caswell, at Myton School in Warwick, who's studied and written about body language. He highlights how standing in the doorway, forcing pupils to enter the room in single file improves behaviour and reduces any tension that may have built up outside. After taking the register, the teacher moves away from her desk to demonstrate there is no barrier between her and the class.

Body Language when Starting the Lesson

Create a class mascot to help behaviour

As a class, talk about the characteristics you would like your class mascot to have. These will become the class rules. This helps form a class identity and can become a focus to help sort out any problems in the classroom or playround.

Professional Development for Quality Teaching

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