All of the administrators, Erin, Mallory, Emily, and Melissa, came to the groups with their a-game. I thoroughly enjoyed talking to them. To start off, I was interviewed in a group by Melissa. She was the administrator for direct instruction school. My favorite question from Melissa was about the house. There are three levels, the foundation, walls, and the roof, and she asked our group to choose which goes on top and which goes elsewhere. I said that the foundation was standards because standards are the base of all our lessons. Next, I said that I would put assessment and lessons were the walls because they are the base of all teaching which is: learning. I answered that learning would be the roof because it is within learning that all of these others aspects come. The second administrator, Emily, came to my group next. Emily was very insightful and her focus was cooperative learning. She asked a question about what color do we think we would choose to represent cooperative learning. I felt this was a great question because everyone has their own opinions and they gave great, descriptive answers. The third administrator for our mock trial day was Mallory. Mallory was focused on using inquiry skills within her school. There was not a question that she asked that I felt was an outstanding question. She was very polite. The final interviewer that we had was Erin. Erin focused on the cooperative learning process. I do not remember the exact question she asked, but it had something to do with a type of learning. I felt that her handshake in the beginning was also very formal and realistic. I really enjoyed her interview.
Overall, I ended up getting the job out of my group members. This was exciting, although not a real interview. I enjoyed this experience and the things we worked on.
This mock job interview was a great experience! It was interesting hearing about your perspective of it as an interviewee versus mine as an administrator. Hearing your answers, along with our other peers' answers, helped me determine was does and does not sound good during an interview. Great job with how you did being interviewed! I definitely would have hired you.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed doing this mock interview. Being in your group, I got to see all of your answers to the questions the "administrators" gave us. You were very knowledgeable with your responses. You also always had a smile on your face and you were very upbeat and excited during the whole interview process. I agree with you that the administrators did a fantastic job. I believe this mock interview could have been harder for them then it was for ourselves. For us, we are going to be in the position of being interviewed within the next few years. No member of our class is qualified to be an administrator (yet).
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