Online Teachers

If the teacher and the students are in separate locations, then this could be difficult. In person, it is certainly easier to zero in on the problem. Online, you will have to be persistent in your communications.Students may not often want to confront their obstacles in the course. Sometimes, just arranging for a telephone consultation could sort out the problem.

If you have experience doing this, you know that communication, emails, announcements, thought provoking questions, getting to know your students and making them feel important in class matters. If you are a new instructor, you will be engaging your students by doing these very same things and have learned from online professors you have taken courses from or have talked with colleagues about, right?

Describe what other languages are you proficient in besides English. Maybe you have a foreign language minor or you’ve practiced another language in previous job or volunteering positions. If you aren’t proficient in another language, talk about how you know a couple of key phrases and what you’re going to do to learn more.

Here you can discuss how you’ve used audio and visual aids in the past for job or school presentations and that you’ll use various visual aids in lectures.

Talk about how great the feeling is when you see that your students have learned something new. Hopefully, that’s one of the reasons why you want to be an ESL teacher in the first place.

This is more to test your teaching style than your knowledge of grammar, so you can first start by asking the student what they think the difference is, then give them some correct examples, then do an activity to help the students remember the difference. Try to avoid big grammar words. It’s better to use real life examples.

This is a loaded question! Of all your qualifications, state the ones that put you over the top. Although you need to maintain a professional demeanor throughout the interview, this question calls for your personal views on early childhood education and how you see yourself contributing to the program. When preparing for the interview, consider the following: Why did you choose the field of early childhood education? How dedicated are you to the young children you teach? How has the field affected your thinking, previous jobs, and life experiences? This is the last message you will share with interviewers, so be sure to give an answer that represents you as a unique individual.

Don’t get offended by this question. It might be illegal in many countries, but it is often asked as an ESL interview question. If you don’t want to answer it honestly, then feel free to lie. Say that your parents are teachers and taught you lots about teaching or something.

Here’s a good opportunity to discuss English classes you’ve taken, where you’ve learned grammar in depth, and foreign language classes you’ve taken, which helped you learn how to empathize with students learning a new language.

Talk about how it is essential that you should be passionate about teaching, empathetic to their students’ frustration, and dedicated to helping others learn, and for that, you need to be proactive, patient, and have a sense of understanding that far transcends others.

Dean’s tell me they are looking for candidates who know they need to

☛ 1. Follow university protocol first and foremost,

☛ 2. Communicate, 3. Try to reach the student,

☛ 3. Try to understand both sides of the issue when applicable,

☛ 4. Let the student’s adviser know,

☛ 5. Re-engage the students to try to retain the learner.

With these items in mind, try to tell the story. Explain what the background is with no names whatsoever (no university names and no student names), how you handled it, and what the outcome was.

Expect an educational institution to ask you this one. If you have studied education at the undergraduate or graduate levels, inevitably, you will have had to discern what your philosophy of teaching is. Online teaching most commonly falls into the realm of humanistic (focused on the individual) teaching and behaviorism (focused on outcomes) approaches, so any authentic statement you can make about aligning with these two types of teaching will stand you in good stead.

Here you can talk about what you’ve learned from earning a TEFL certificate, or you could discuss creating lectures using the presentation, practice, presentation method. Arming yourself with examples, description, charts, and games is necessary. Using a planner or a calendar with alarms is also important to keep everything organized.

☛ What experience do you have in e-learning and online education?

☛ What are your relevant academic credentials?

☛ What are you strengths?

☛ What are your weaknesses? How do you overcome them?

☛ What is your technology expertise?

☛ How do you stay up-to-date with the changing worlds of technology and education?

☛ How do you actively engage students in a virtual classroom?

☛ What methods do you use when providing students with individualized instruction online?

☛ What types of challenges have you faced in e-learning? How did you overcome them? What did you learn or gain from them?

Your answer should reflect the culture of the community in which you are interviewing. Find out the home languages spoken, the economic status of most families, and the kinds of family involvement encouraged by the school or program. Knowing these details, you can shape a response that demonstrates respect for the families. Would it make more sense to use email or to send letters home? Would it be beneficial to create a class website? Is there a teacher portal available? Be sure to mention that you chose a method because you are aware of the community demographics!

Do you think outside of the box? Online teaching is for creative teachers. Ideally, if you can think of a technology-related idea, so much the better. Do you like to experiment with the internet to try new types of assignments or teaching strategies. Recently, I created a screen cast tutorial (I bought my own copy of Camtasia, a screen capture program) and created a video on how to revise a badly written document. The students liked it because they could scroll through it quickly or slowly, as they wished.

If you have, great! Talk about your fantastic experience abroad, and how it made you want to visit whatever country you are applying for a job in. If not, then make sure you show that you won’t get homesick and quit after a month.