Practicum interview

Aisha Hashil AlKharoossi

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 Al Qarayen kindergarten
● Around 12 classes
● More than 300 students
● 15 teacher without Administration
What did you most enjoy about your practicum?

● First TP children
● Developments
● speaking skill
● thinking, understanding
 What challenges did you face?

● Number of students
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What did you do to show your commitment to

your job as a teacher in the school?

● Come on time
● Working as a real teacher
● Teaching mostly everyday
● Use MOE curriculum
How did you collaborate with your MST and other
teachers in the school?
● Discussing
● Asking

Typical day in the school

● Sing in
● Morning assembly
● English class
● Playground
● Eating
● Arabic class
Talk about the process of planning for lessons. How did your
MST go about this?
Students levels - Lesson choosing - Develop the activity

How did you plan for your first lesson?

● Get ready 2 days before
● Discussing with MST

What did you learn about planning during the practicum?

● Saving time
What challenges did you face when preparing your lesson
plans?
● Activities

Explain how you planned for teaching speaking and

listening.

● Listening → song
● Speaking → circle
Describe how effectively you managed the transitions
between activities. What strategies worked you?
● Call-and-response

Which were the most effective strategies you observed your

MST using in the classroom?
● Use gross motor

Talk about one negative and one positive experience you had
in attempting to manage negative behaviour in the
classroom.
● Positive → punishment area
● Negative → shouting
What strategies did you employ to teach speaking /listening
activities to 2L learners?
● Music
● Dialogue
What do you have to take into consideration when teaching
2L learners speaking/listening activities?

● Students level

(Discuss the theories of Behaviorism, Innatism and

Interactionist. Present 2 lesson plans that evidence this).
Describe what assessment instruments you saw your MST
using when assessing the students. What assessment
instruments did you use to help assess student learning?
● Observing during learning center
● Asking
Why do you think it’s important to be well organized when
in the school?
● Teacher is model
● Teaching easier

Have your organisation and planning skills improved?

● Plan B
what would you say have been your particular strengths and
what you feel needs further development in subsequent
TPs?

● Strength → open minded

● Weakness → activities

How do you think that your own

perspectives on teaching and learning
have changed this semester?

● Learn more about the children

● Learn more about role of teaching
What do you think are important things to study at college
to ensure that you are well prepared for TP?

● Basic teacher role

● dealing with Children
How effectively do you think you communicated with your
MST throughout the placement?

● Help to planning
● Do tasks

Did you face any problems or challenges in dealing with

_____________ and how did you manage these?

● vice president
Choose one task that you found interesting and tell
about it. What did you learn from doing this task?

● Discussing with children

Refer to one artefact / other task / journal you

found interesting and tell about it.

● Task 3
Thank you