Online Teacheing Interview Preparation Guide

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.

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.

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 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.