 Hello everybody, and welcome back to my channel. You'll notice I'm in some interview clothes, and I want to talk about my interview today. So I am interviewing today for my very first teaching position. I had an interview around this time last year, but it was for Montessori school. So I feel like this is my first official interview with a public school. I had a long-term sub interview a little while back, so I have an idea what this will be like. But this is my first official one with a school and for a full year. It's going to be in first grade. So I'm kind of nervous, but I'm also kind of excited just for like, mostly for the experience. And this is a school that I student taught at. And I did a first grade long-term sub in the classroom next door to the one that I'm interviewing for. And for that long-term sub, they actually asked me to do the long-term sub. I didn't apply for it. The principal came up and asked me. So when this came up, when my cooperating teacher for student teaching was like, hey, by the way, look out for this job, I really spent a lot of time organizing and making sure that my application, resume and cover letter were all good and ready to go and like, updated. So I'm excited. I'm nervous because I think it would be a really amazing opportunity. But I want to be, I don't want to get my hopes up and like, have them be crushed. I'm nervous. I got to do a little bit more updating. And I will let you guys know when I get to the school and then after the interview is over, wish me luck. Hi guys, I just finished the interview and it took my coat off when I got out or my blazer off when I got outside because it's really hot. I think it's like 95 out here. So too hot to have that on. Honestly, I think it went okay. I think I said some good things, but for some reason I don't know what's wrong with me. I was talking about my fourth grade position instead of my like my fourth grade long term sub position the most instead of talking about my first grade long term sub position. So I'm really upset at myself. And they also said that because I'm a first year teacher and I don't have any contracts that they'll have to have a separate call with me. That's like 30 to 45 minutes, which it's really hard to schedule that I guess. And they have like 28 questions to get to know me better and they have to do with an additional administrator. So I think my chances are very slim. I think they were excited to have me there and I think they wanted to give me a chance, but I have a not great feeling about it. I feel like you can come away from interviews kind of knowing how it went. And honestly, I just don't think I said the right things and I don't have enough experience. So unfortunately, I think this interview might have been a dud. They said to let me know next week. So I guess still fingers crossed, but I I'm not going to keep my hopes up because I just feel like in my gut, I know that I didn't get it. So that's a bummer, but I'll share with you guys some of the interview questions they asked me in a little while. But yeah, I feel like you can tell how things went and so got to get more experience. That's all. So I'll tell you guys what the interview questions were in just a bit. All right, I'm home now from the interview. I hope you don't mind. I'm just going to snuggle with my dog here. I think I told you guys a little bit in the car, but I think it went okay. Yeah, like I said, I don't know why I talked so much about my fourth grade experience in a first grade position. I talked a lot to my dad about this and, you know, he he was kind of helping me like defend my choices. But I think overall I just I left and I had the vibe that I just didn't get the job. I don't know. I feel like you can walk out of an interview and have a pretty decent feel for if you got it or not. And I feel like I didn't, but I wanted to share with you guys some of the interview questions. So I wrote those down so I could share them with you. I have them on my phone. So I'm just going to read some of those questions for you guys and just kind of share. All right, you can get down that one. Just kind of share some of my thoughts and responses. So the first one was kind of a general like tell me a little bit about yourself. But basically it said our interview panel doesn't have any of your resume information or anything like that. So share with us your prior experiences. So I went back a little ways to just share some of my experience from college and student teaching because I did student teach at that school. And then I went into my subbing experience, my long term sub experience and so on and so forth. So that was basically like I said, like a tell me a little bit about yourself. The next question is how do you determine or qualify success and share a story, a successful situation for you? The third question was describe a personal quality or other characteristic which you possess that enables you to build strong interpersonal relationships with colleagues and or students. Why do you believe this attribute makes a difference? And then tell me about a time you pitched in to help someone with a task or finish a project, even though it wasn't your job. What made you decide to step in? The next question was tell me about the most difficult work situation you've encountered and how you brought it to resolution reflecting back would you do anything differently? How do you incorporate the views slash perspectives of others from diverse backgrounds into your work? The next question was what do you think makes a great teacher? It says please explain how you differentiate and personalize your classroom instruction. And then the last question, question nine was please describe how you organize and plan systematic instruction that is standards based. So those were all of the nine questions. I did get to see them before and write down notes. And I think that was really helpful for me. So the only bad thing is obviously I couldn't like I only had 10 minutes to really think through some kind of deep questions. And I think if I had more time or if I would have spent more time preparing prior to this experience I would have been thinking more about my first grade long term experience instead of my fourth grade. But you know it is but it is. So any who I'm going to let you guys go but I wanted to share those interview questions with you guys in case you're not sure or you're wondering what kind of questions they even ask. Those were nine questions that they asked me during my interview. So I hope you guys enjoyed and I hope you got something helpful out of this experience or out of this video. And I wish you guys all luck whether you are finishing out your year finished it already or if you're going to be looking for jobs all summer long like me. So good luck you guys and thanks for watching. Bye bye. .