I recently had an interview for a Head of EAL role here in Bangkok. It was for a school called King’s College, which is a fairly new school with a good reputation. I did okay – made it through to a second round interview, but didn’t get the job. 

The first round pre-interview task involved submitting a lesson plan. This was the full brief:

Please send a lesson plan and resources for an IGCSE ESL year 10 lesson, based around the topic of ‘Communication.’

My lesson plan went down okay, and I navigated the questions about it well enough to get a second interview. I’m sharing the resources here for others – it could be useful for interview ideas, etc.

Here’s a link to the docs, which include:

The main presentation

Vocab pre-test

Multiple-matching text

Optional reference doc (from previous lesson)

Options grammar doc

Rationale and lesson plan

A few points to consider:

• you’ll probably notice that things are very text-heavy. I’d have jazzed it up more, but this did all take a couple of hours to compile. I thought it was more important to show clear staging/exam strategies development etc rather than spend too much time making things look good
• I included a rationale. They didn’t ask for this, but I always include one. I don’t want to leave too many of my choices to guesswork for the interviewer.
• I’ll be honest, this is the type of resource that I find many generalists drafted into ESL teaching find kinda useful, but I’m not so passionate about teaching in this way. However, I do think it’s useful for some, and I have a bank of resources like this that I’ll share at some point later in the year.

Anyhow, happy interviewing, fellow jobseekers!

Categories: General, grammar, Lesson Ideas, other, teacher development, Uncategorized, vocabulary

Tags: communication, eal, IGCSE ESL, international school, interviews, social media