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How to Showcase Your Skills and Experience as a New Teacher
As a new teacher, you may feel overwhelmed by the challenge of establishing yourself in the competitive field of education. It's essential to know how to showcase your skills and experience effectively to make a lasting impression on potential employers, colleagues, and students. In this blog post, we'll explore different ways to demonstrate your capabilities as a new teacher and help you stand out in your profession.
Create a Comprehensive Portfolio
A well-organised portfolio is an excellent …
Interview questions for Principal Jobs in Ireland
Are you searching for potential questions for leadership positions? If you’re reading this - I’m betting that you are!
Working 1-1 with 100s of teachers each year - puts me in a great position to hear what the latest questions are that are being asked. I hope you find them useful!
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Intro: What have been three achievements in your teaching career to date?
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What was a teaching and learning initiative that you introduced?
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How do you self-evaluate?
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What makes you ready to take on …
How can I be more confident in interviews?
You are a great teacher and you are confident in your abilities, but what do you do with the dreaded interview fear? Are there ways to get past this and shine in your teaching job interview? Of course there are and I am here to help you.
Develop self-compassion and improving your self-talk
So many of my clients come out of an interview and do a postmortem of it! They berate themselves for the bits they slipped up in or couldn’t answer well and focus mostly on that. Try refrain from doing that by d…
Looking at Our School 2016: The Leadership and Management Domains - Skills Development
The ‘Looking at Our School 2016: A Quality Framework for Primary Schools’ outlines 4 domains as guides for teachers to step into management roles.
These 4 Domains are:
1. Leading Teaching and Learning
2. Managing the Organisation
3. Leading School Development and
4. Developing Leadership Capacity
While I have already written blog posts for each individual blog post (linked below) today’s blog focuses on the skills development necessary for stepping up to the next level in your career.
I ha…
Preparing for interviews: Ask yourself ‘What else?’
There is one particular question I love to ask my clients when we are trying to figure out all of their talents and capabilities. That question is; What else? As many of the educators I meet are hardworking, modest professionals who show up and get the job done, they often find it hard to declare what is so great about themselves. Once we start to delve into their capabilities and strengths together, I ask them to delve deeper.
Identifying your strengths
Brainstorming is a great way to start to di…
4 ways I can help you land your dream teaching job
I am an experienced career coach and I enjoy seeing my clients succeed in their interviews and land that dream teaching job. There are many ways that you can improve your chances of success by working with me. Here are the main 4 ways we can work together to make you stand out from the crowd.
CV Analysis
Curriculum Vitae in Latin, means the course of a life. This document is there to show the course of your education and professional development, along with your character and strengths. There are …
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