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

  • 28-06-2009 11:29PM
    #1
    Gock
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    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:confused:
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  • #2
    spurious
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    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'.


  • #3
    tringle
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    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


  • #4
    Enright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 947 ✭✭✭Enright


    from google in relation to teaching of english

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


  • #5
    Gock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭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:confused:



    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


  • #6
    spurious
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    Active learning. Field trips etc.
    Geography's a great subject for getting away from the textbooks.


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  • #7
    Nead21
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    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


  • #8
    Gock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭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!


  • #9
    Nead21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭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 :)


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