Learning Support Assistant secondary School
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Hi All,
I have an job interview for LSA in an secondary school. The interview comes in 2 stages.
Stage 1... I will be given a task to complete with a group of year 9's. I will have 25 minutes to prepare. There will be resources available to me, but I will not be able to use the Internet to assist with my preparation. Please can someone tell me what I will be expected to do? This has me slightly panicked.
I will appreciate any feedback x
I have an job interview for LSA in an secondary school. The interview comes in 2 stages.
Stage 1... I will be given a task to complete with a group of year 9's. I will have 25 minutes to prepare. There will be resources available to me, but I will not be able to use the Internet to assist with my preparation. Please can someone tell me what I will be expected to do? This has me slightly panicked.
I will appreciate any feedback x
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by JAMJHi All,
I have an job interview for LSA in an secondary school. The interview comes in 2 stages.
Stage 1... I will be given a task to complete with a group of year 9's. I will have 25 minutes to prepare. There will be resources available to me, but I will not be able to use the Internet to assist with my preparation. Please can someone tell me what I will be expected to do? This has me slightly panicked.
I will appreciate any feedback x
I have an job interview for LSA in an secondary school. The interview comes in 2 stages.
Stage 1... I will be given a task to complete with a group of year 9's. I will have 25 minutes to prepare. There will be resources available to me, but I will not be able to use the Internet to assist with my preparation. Please can someone tell me what I will be expected to do? This has me slightly panicked.
I will appreciate any feedback x
I don’t know what task you will be given but I have done primary TA interviews and had to do various things like take a small group and help them to understand centimetres/millimetres and support them to complete a worksheet or a guided reading session. Obviously you will be working with older children so you will not likely have these specific activities but it may be similar. You could plan for it by researching small group intervention teaching techniques and knowing some basics that could be applied to most situations. For example trying to gauge what they already know about the topic so you know where to start your teaching, explain the objective of the session, try to notice who in particular might need extra support/one on one when you get them to do the independent work, break your explanations into chunks and check their understanding before moving on, work your way around everyone/as many as you can to check no one is quietly getting on with it but has totally misunderstood etc.
The primary objective of getting you to do this is not to see if you can run a perfect session but they will almost certainly get you to review the session afterwards and explain what you thought went well/badly and why you did certain things. This shows you have the ability to improve your practice and be adaptable both for situations and individual needs - both very important in a school environment.
Try not to worry. You will have an interview too and they are looking for a good fit for their school. Be proud of your strengths and if if the activity goes badly, then say what you thought went badly and how you would improve it if you did it again. Good luck
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