Interview advice

[BarleySugar]

What advice would you give to someone who was applying for a job as a craft tutor, and required to teach an activity?

I'll not put up an official poll but there's 2 choices

1. Carefully prepare a number of visual aids, photos of past work and examples of current stuff. Place bag in the car, arrive with 10 minutes to spare, and chill.


2. Carefully prepare a number of visual aids, photos of past work and examples of current stuff. Forget to put bag in the car, arrive with 10 minutes to spare, (after a 35 minute drive) and panic.

Which one do you think I chose?

[cardiffsteve]

Would that be option 2 per chance?

How did interview go otherwise?

[BarleySugar]

I went in and explained to the interviewer, who suggested we go ahead with the interview as there was another manager there who would be on the panel, and if 'needed' (I read this to mean if we don't like what we hear we won't bother) we could reschedule the micro teach session for another time.
While I was waiting I accessed my facebook page and loaded it on my phone to show my work at least. After the normal questions about addressing differentation, ethnicity and diversity (this was for adult education) the other manager asked if I would be willing to teach anything else (his area is closer to where I live than hers). I said I didn't suppose they had any gardening vacancies, amazingly he said he was offering a beginners course in allotmenting, but had no tutor. It's only classroom based, no practical, but a promising question I thought. Also she said she'd had queries about cupcake decoration too.
I have been offered a chance to demonstrate my teaching tomorrow at the venue close to where I live (both of them will be there). I honestly didn't think they would bother to invite me back, so fingers crossed.

[lottie dolly]

Good luck barley sugar,hope you have success

[veggiechicken]

All the best for tomorrow BS. If you've winged it so far, sounds like you're flying in to a new job

[julesapple]

Sounds brilliant, BS....I think you've impressed them! Fingers crossed!

And you didn't choose Option 2, it chose you. It's not like you did it on purpose. If you had safely gone for Option 1 you my not have gotten the gardening offer.......karma!

[Tripmeup]

Best of luck...sounds like u impressed them already...

[Bren In Pots]

Fingers crossed for tomorrow for you barley sugar and by the sounds of it they like you.

[Florence Fennel]

Good Luck today BS, it's written in the stars

[zazen999]

Fingers crossed BS but - an allotment course with no practical? That's like trying to teach accountancy without using any maths. Who puts these ideas together?....*wanders off muttering

[Glutton4...]

Good luck BS!

[HeyWayne]

Best of luck. Sounds very promising.

[BarleySugar]

If I do get the allotment class I might see if I can sneak in a couple of things, even if it's only showing them how water saving crystals hydrate when wet and a few example containers planted up. Visual aides are essential parts to teaching these days, and I really ought to cater for kinaesthetic learners too.

[Mikey]

I assume a non practical course will be for all those thousands who are on waiting lists for allotments but haven't actually got one.

[Mikey]

Visual aides are essential parts to teaching these days, and I really ought to cater for kinaesthetic learners too.

Cool gardening through the medium of dance.....

This class is a 'forget me not', I'd like you to move around the room while chanting the words 'he loves me he loves me not'.