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        Get together with other trainees trying to get on the Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) in the TES GTP Group. Get GTP application and interview advice, find out who’s got a place where and discuss what it’s really like once you’re on the GTP programme

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          Muttley_in_the_Midlands

          Member since 18-1-2012
          After having a great selection day at Warwick University and being accepted on the course, Warwick subsequently cancelled its PGCE and also its GTP in my subject. "But don't worry," they said, "having passed our selection day, you are in a fantastic position to get a place elsewhere." 4 other providers I applied to received no allocation his year. I had one remaining application and was invited to interview and failed it. Cutting a long story short I now have managed one more final interview for GTP and one for PGCE remaining and having failed the last one, I am having kittens about these interviews. The PGCE one requires me to teach a 5 to 6 minute lesson with a class of 14 year olds on a subject I have been given and quite frankly I don't know how I can possibly fit in the requirement in the time allowed! I am also lacking in confidence having failed the last interview spectacularly. The feedback was that I didn't know enough about child protection, the national curriculum, and all the exam syllabi in my subject - heaven knows how as the last 2 weren't even discussed during my interview. I also don't have enough school experience they said. My sponsoring school were pretty shocked. Does anyone have any advice? Having had one interview go so well and one so badly, I am at a loss to know how to prepare. I will run my 5 minute "lesson plan" past my mentor at school but what about the rest? Thanks in advance
          Posted 25-4-2012 19:34
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          Muttley_in_the_Midlands

          Member since 18-1-2012
          Sorry, my paragraph spacings have disappeared - I'm on a Mac.
          Posted 25-4-2012 19:35
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          Herringthecat

          Member since 9-11-2011
          Can you start from your learning objectives and work backwards from there?
          If at all possible, put the last disastrous experience behind you as they're clearly 'not all there' - something else going on in the background that you're not a party to, perhaps. Focus on the fact that you were offered a place at Warwick and there are professionals out there who have confidence in your ability to become a teacher.
          Do you have a friendly teacher at your sponsoring school who might be able to help with your 6 minute lesson?
          And I don't get paragraphs either. I have to manually put them in with html. you have to write the letters 'br' with pointy brackets around them, then they appear!
          Good luck
          Posted 26-4-2012 16:41
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          Muttley_in_the_Midlands

          Member since 18-1-2012

          Thank you for your moral support Herring.<br>

          Yes I did talk it through with my mentor at my school, who was of course full of better ideas than mine!  I also spent most of Friday in front of classes which restored my confidence as well as having received some excellent feedback from one of the teachers.  I don't mean that the lesson was excellent, rather that the feedback was - the lesson sucked frankly!  But that's fine because I am feeling more confident again and can take what she said and use it.<br>

          Onwadrs and upwards

          Posted 28-4-2012 17:19
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