"Outline your approach to teaching" question on job application form.

Gock

Folks,...
Help me please! I am applying for jobs teaching and in several cases in which the VEC in question have a standard application form the question "Outline you approach to teaching" has featured. I vaguely remember something about the "communicative approach" from doing my PGDE in UCD but can't find the material anywhere. I'm worried that when I send the application (late today) that they will expect specific stuff. Can anyone please give me any guidance as to what VEC's are looking for in the answer to this question?

Gock

spurious

I would imagine that would be one of the questions they'll ask at the interview, so you don't need to be terribly detailed in the form.
Without knowing what level you're aiming at - active learning methodologies, inclusion of all, child-centred, less reliance on the use of the text book, more doing by them and less talking by you, etc. Keeping in mind 'Assessment for learning' is the current fashion, having partly replaced 'multiple intelligences'.

tringle

Depends on weather its for a second level school or adult ed. For adult ed I would be going for holistic approach, facilitative style, needs of all stakeholders, learners goals

Enright

from google in relation to teaching of english

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~mflwww/seclangacq/langteach9.html

Gock

Gock wrote: »

Folks,...
Help me please! I am applying for jobs teaching and in several cases in which the VEC in question have a standard application form the question "Outline you approach to teaching" has featured. I vaguely remember something about the "communicative approach" from doing my PGDE in UCD but can't find the material anywhere. I'm worried that when I send the application (late today) that they will expect specific stuff. Can anyone please give me any guidance as to what VEC's are looking for in the answer to this question?

Gock

Thank You folks...Very helpful. I think, from reading your replies that I am now very well prepared for filling out the application for an ESOL job in a VEC which I am appliying for. I am also however applying for a position as a secondary level Geography teacher. Anyone got any tips for how I should answer the same "Outline your approach to teaching" specifically with regard to teaching Geography?


Gock

spurious

Active learning. Field trips etc.
Geography's a great subject for getting away from the textbooks.

Nead21

thanks for the information here. i read this just before i starting completing a VEC application myself, and found it a good reminder of wording etc

best of luck Gock with the applications

Gock

Nead21 wrote: »

thanks for the information here. i read this just before i starting completing a VEC application myself, and found it a good reminder of wording etc

best of luck Gock with the applications

I just hope we don't end up competing against each other at an interview!

Nead21

Gock wrote: »

I just hope we don't end up competing against each other at an interview!

haha. no im not applying for the ESOL position