6B2 - PGCE interview Leeds Beckett Uni

The Interview
Your interview and tasks have two main purposes:

1. To establish whether you have the attributes that will enable you to cope with both the professional demands of the award and the related academic work
2. To give you the opportunity to explain what attracts you to teaching as a career and why you think you are a suitable candidate

The interview will include:

1. Short presentations by applicants (5 minutes) in groups
2. Small group task
3. Skills Tests diagnostic (for Numeracy and Literacy) and a short written task
4. Short individual interviews which begin with applicants sharing school-based work
   experiences and/or experience of working with children in settings other than school
   
   
   1. Presentation: select a short story/appropriate extract (fiction or non-fiction) suitable for use within your chosen age-phase.
   You will be expected to:

   •   Introduce your chosen book with a rationale for your choice; (target age and area of
     learning)
   •   Read your short story/extract from the book out loud to a small group of other applicants
     who will be in role as pupils; (allow 1 minute for reading your short story/extract out loud)
   •   Illustrate how you would use the story to support learning and teaching. You may wish to
     bring associated resources; (resources should not require special equipment or set up time)
   •   You must be prepared to answer questions from other applicants about your presentation as
     well as be prepared to ask questions of others
   •   You will have up to 5 minutes to do this so rehearsal will be key to your preparation
     2. Small Group Task: Preparation for this task prior to interview is not required.
     3. Skills Test Diagnostic: As mentioned earlier, the first (morning) session of your interview day will have involved a short maths task and two short writing tasks. For each of the short tests, you will have a printed copy in front of you. The timings are short but because of the nature of the tests, the interviewer will have some flexibility; you will be invited to indicate a declared disability, e.g. dyslexia, on the response sheet and this will be taken into account. The short maths tasks involve multi-step calculation; calculators will not be used but you will have space to make informal jottings. 
     
     
     
     
     To make things easier I did my presentation on the same book 'Giraffes Can't Dance' and I used the same work sheets I had created for my previous interview.