The interview itself was, for lack of a better word, weird. I am an extremely experienced teacher. I have both a B.Ed and an M.Ed, along with three other post graduate certifications, reading specialist, teacher support specialist, and gifted certification. I have over a decade of experience teaching in the public school setting with very diverse populations, including a very high percentage of ESOL students. I have also taught in the private school setting and the homeschool community. I have taught in both formats, in person, and online.
I was thoroughly prepared for my interview. I had researched and prepared all my materials according to the powerpoints, made sure I was pointing to my mouth and cupping my ear, made my reward system, (and remembered to use it.) used my whiteboard for demonstrating, along with the computer. I read reviews here on glassdoor and others, and watched so many videos on youtube. I made a very colorful background, as a classroom with various images, my name being prominently displayed, along with a United States map, and an alphabet letter T. (The lesson I was given was the letter T.) I wore an orange t-shirt. To demonstrate tongue, I had a dragon puppet on my hand, with a "tongue" that forked out. I used a tiger stuffed animal for the tiger. I even had a swim mask and snorkel for the warmup, and used a swimming motion for the warmup, when asked to have the child act out what you say. I had bread with me, as I imitated eating, again using these props, and hand motions while I said the word.
The interviewer said she liked my dragon tongue prop, especially, and she loved my colorful background. She said that I needed to make sure to circle the item I was pointing to, instead of pointing to it with the mouse, because they student can't see that. However; no one tells you that, before hand. The instructions stated the objective was to have the student circle an arrow that pointed to that item, so I had no way of knowing the item couldn't be seen on the student's end without circling it. Also, the interviewer said I needed to use more hand movements in my lesson, but then said I did a great job with all of my props and other materials. From the feedback, I'm still not sure where the problem was.
The interview portion itself was nothing...just basically reading over the application. No difficult interview questions. However; it was very difficult to hear because the interviewer was in a call center and there was a lot of background noise.
I have a feeling the company is looking for a certain type of person that can be easily programmed as a robotic clone, a caricature or cartoon animation. I'm open to criticism, but the feedback I received was very, very confusing.
