Practicum Interview
Name: Salwa Shahmeer
ID: H00306883
Professionalism
Please give a brief description of school, i.e.
boys/girls, size, location. Curriculum and
text used
What different subjects are taught?
What did you enjoy most about your
practicum?
What challenge did you face?
What did you show your commitment to
your job as a teacher in the school?
What did you collaborate with your MST
and other teachers in the school?
Describe a typical day in your school.
Planning for learning
Talk about the process of planning for
lessons. How did your MST go about this?
How did you plan for your first lesson?
What did you learn about planning during
the practicum?
What challenges did you face when
preparing your lesson plans?
Explain how you planned for teaching
speaking and listening.
Implementing and Managing Learning
Describe how effectively you managed the
transitions between activities. What
strategies worked you?
Which were the most effective strategies you
observed your MST using in the classroom?
Which were the most effective strategies
you observed your MST using in the
classroom?
Talk about one negative and one positive
experience you had in attempting to
manage negative behaviour in the
classroom.
What strategies did you employ to
teach speaking /listening activities to
2L learners? What do you have to
take into consideration when
teaching 2L learners
speaking/listening activities?
(Discuss the theories of Behaviorism,
Innatism and Interactionist. Present
2 lesson plans that evidence this).
Monitoring & Assessment
Describe what assessment instruments you
saw your MST using when assessing the
students. What assessment instruments
did you use to help assess student
learning?
Why do you think it’s important to be well
organized when in the school?
Have your organisation and planning skills
improved? Yes - in what way? No - what
steps can you take to improve in this
area?
Reflection
Based on the comments of your MST and your own
personal reflections in this setting, what would you
say have been your particular strengths and what you
feel needs further development in subsequent TPs?
How do you think that your own perspectives on
teaching and learning have changed this semester?
What do you think are important things to study at
college to ensure that you are well prepared for TP?
Communication
How effectively do you think you communicated with your MST
throughout the placement?
Did you face any problems or challenges in dealing with
_____________ and how did you manage these?
Refer to one of following:
MST
Other staff
Administration
Students
Is there anything that you would change next semester to ensure
this didn’t occur again?
Portfolio and Observation tasks
Choose one task that you found
interesting and tell about it. What did you
learn from doing this task?
Refer to one artefact / other task / journal
you found interesting and tell about it.
Portfolio-Assessment Criteria to be
completed post interview.
Bring Interview To An End:
Are there any other comments you would
like to make or ask with regards to this
teaching practice.
