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Teacher here. Good schools will ask you to teach a sample lesson on a particular subject and prep your own materials. Principals and other teachers will obser
by adpirz 12y ago
Teacher here. Good schools will ask you to teach a sample lesson on a particular subject and prep your own materials. Principals and other teachers will observe and give feedback. It's what I did to work at my current school, and we're one of the top performing schools in our state.
- eru 12y agoSounds like a work sample test to me. Great!
- tomp 12y agoExcept that it's the kind of work-sample test that you can't do in the evening, and is hard to complete if you already have a full-time job (except if only other teachers are the audience).
- yummyfajitas 12y agoHow would principals/teachers know if and how much the sample lesson transfers knowledge to students? It seems like this would filter out disasters, but can it do more than that?
- adpirz 12y agoThat's when you look at other factors like past performance, including (but certainly not limited to) performance on his / her pupils' standardized tests. Like any other hiring process, it's not always perfect, but you also learn along the way which characteristics make for great teachers (responding to feedback, ability to engage with students, timeliness, etc.).