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Please Help with my Deputy Head Teacher Interview
I am currently one third of the way through an interview for a Deputy Head Teacher position at a different school. Tomorrow is a full day and I am hoping to have the opportunity to show the value my network brings to my job.
I do not have any specific task you can help me with or comment on because the ones I know about do not lend themselves. However you can still help by responding in a more general way. Here is the question(s):
How has my work both online and face to face made an impact on you or your classes? Which projects or ideas of mine have inspired you to go on and do wonderful things in schools?
It will be easiest for me and for the panel that I show to Tweet your answers to me. I might just print the accumulated answers and give them out. A couple of things to remember when replying by Twitter:
- I am @tombarrett
- Please include the hashtag #tomsinterview anywhere in the post and I will pick it up. You can even write it without the @tombarrett bit, so long as you include the hashtag.
- If you are not on Twitter or would like to say more than 140 characters please drop a comment on this post and I will of course include those too.
- I will be heading off to the school at about 9.30am GMT so will be grabbing everything just before then.
Thankyou to everyone who has shown me such generous support so far. If you feel you can help contribute to my interview tomorrow I would be so grateful to hear your thoughts on those prompts.
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Your 'Interesting Ideas' Google Docs have inspired me to start a couple of my own (specifically the 'techy tips' presentation which has also led to a monthly newsletter for all of my staff). I've used loads of your ideas with students at KS3, KS4 and KS5 including Wordle, Etherpad, Voicethread, Google Docs as a source of collaboration. You're always doing brilliant stuff, *sharing* brilliant stuff and learning brilliant stuff.
In fact, I just wish I could *be* Tom Barrett.
(Too much?)