Teach for America Teacher Interview

Interview Details – It's lengthy and stressful. They expect a lot right out of the gate. You have a phone interview, have to take a test on literacy and policies, etc. to see if you make the right choices to be a teacher and esp. in a low income and low budget school system. The day long interview is fun. You start out in a group and teach a mock lesson for whatever grade you choose, and then get to act like a student in everyone else's lessons. Afterward, you get into groups and act like staff at a school and make input ideas and decisions to fix problems the school faces. You get a break and then go the one on one interviews. This was my favorite part, because my interviewer was really attentive and excited. She worked in the same region I was applying for and asked insightful questions. When I left I had no doubt that I had got in. TFA prepares you for the interview, provides tons of resources, and truly wants to recruit like-minded individuals that are up for a challenge. I enjoyed the process, but didn't have the energy to relocate and teach a subject I was hardly qualified to teach to a bunch of kids that could probably care less. In the end, I wasn't motivated to take on such a challenge, where I felt it would be extremely time-consuming and exhausting to really succeed.

Reason for Declining – Not ready for the commitment.