hey, no offence taken, very astute of you.
(You'd make a good teacher!)
I have absolutely no idea how I come across at interview. I can say for sure that I haven't been faced with any questions I wasn't prepared for. I've filmed myself a few times, on my laptop camera, to look at the body language side of things. I know I don't 'umm' or 'err'.
Yeah, it's entirely possible I might come across as arrogant. Or "intense" or "eccentric" or possibly even plain "insane"... It's tough, when you know what you're up against, to try to strike the right balance between confidence, up-beat attitude and arrogance. I know all the answers to these questions off by heart now, so I have to "act" some pretend spontaneity back into them...
I certainly don't think I automatically deserve a place: I've seen too many excellent other candidates to ever think that. And, yeah, if London's TT institutes repeatedly conclude I won't make a good teacher, well, they'd know better than I would. Wanting to do something, even a lot, doesn't always make it the right thing to do...