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Kittikins

Really exciting How rude of the people who all knew each other not to be friendly, if I was there you'd have got to know me! I'm very chatty What kind of pre-reading do you have to do? I'm wading through the reading for my interview.

Not feeling very excited about the interview TBH, more apprehensive and flat, but hopefully that's just my traditional pre-birthday blues and I'll be fine soon!

Tete_en_l'Air

Very, Lara!

Does that mean your birthday's coming up Kitty? Yeah all the others seemed lovely, I was just unlucky to be stuck with the few who weren't. I'm not too worried as they're from up Newcastle way so won't have much to do with them I guess (hadn't realised this programme was so far-reaching!)

The prep work they've advised (although they said don't overdo it!) is- subject knowledge, look at the National Standards, read up on modern and traditional teaching styles and educational theory (he reeled off a load of names but I wasn't quick enough - one of them was Black), read the TES and any subject-specific journals, look into the different teaching unions (don't suppose you've done that yet?) .... and that's all I've written down. I've also got the Teaching for Dummies book and How to get the Boogers to Behave out of the library - although a quick flick through the latter has scared me to death, all "what do do if a pupil calls you a f***ing b*tch..." :eek:

Right, it's payday (alleluia!) so I'm off to do the money shuffle

Oh and I text my friends from school last night and they all seem to have their GCSE certificates so I'm going to have a good look at the weekend before I pay anything out! Need to go through all Mam's old paperwork in case they're in there somewhere, but I did that after she died so I would have found them then surely. Sigh.

Tete_en_l'Air

Hurrah! Remembered to pay off my credit card before the due date thus avoiding the £12 fee for the first time in three months!

starnac

Well done on paying c/c on time Tete.

Sounds like things are really getting going now for you. September will be here before you know it

Tete_en_l'Air

Got my fingers crossed for you today Kitty!!!!

EDIT - MSE won't let you post a whole post in all caps - how annoying! Imagine more energy in the above statement please

starnac

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Got my fingers crossed for you today Kitty!!!!

EDIT - MSE won't let you post a whole post in all caps - how annoying! Imagine more energy in the above statement please

How about this Tete?

:j:j go kitty, go kitty :j:j

If you squint really hard then they are cheerleaders!! :rotfl:

Tete_en_l'Air

starnac wrote: »

How about this Tete?

Were you trying to type in caps there? If so it didn't work!

starnac

No stupid tablet. I was showing you the cheerleaders to give your post more energy!

Tete_en_l'Air

Ah sorry I see! Yes I can just imagine them with little pompoms! :j

Kittikins

Thanks for the CAPITALS and cheerleaders laydeez

I think I did well.......have to wait up to 3 weeks now, but if I don't get in, I've certainly tried my hardest. I was quite subdued until I got there, as I was nervous and a bit stressed remembering how great Uni1's interview had been and then the feeling of rejection; but with this interview, it was very different, apart from a prepared maths question, everything else was done off the cuff and so I'm hopeful, but not getting my hopes up too much.

I had to plan a lesson in 15 minutes and talk about it, then write a 3-part critique of what was good and not so good about it (gulp!), talk about the maths, and do another activity with a different person to the maths. The time flew by!

So glad its over though. I just hope I can get through the next few weeks better than the last time I was in this situation!