Interview Tips For School Service Commission English Teachers



 Hi Friends!

Now get ready for the Interview--The last hurdle of your glory.

You are the Constructor:

'Teaching refers to the actions of a real live instructor designed to impart learning to the student.' So friends, teachers are not machines but an articulation of human passions with the objective of imparting guidance to learning. So the job of teaching is different from other jobs in the sense that it is not a subject of calculating your money rather it provides perspective to the whole of education as well as life. The approach to teaching at school level is integrative rather than as additive which means values are integrated into the processes of life, living and enlightenment. A teacher should involve himself / herself into the over-all school climate and interactions and they are transformed in the tradition of constructor of social values. It is because the attitudes and values of a teacher are incorporated in the foundation of a student's character.

    Oscillation & vacillation: 

It is the climax of your narrative. Your hard work in college and university is finally yielding fruits. It's what you have been anticipating for years, and yet you're tense, and perhaps even apprehensive. But don't get tense .What you are confusing at is the totality of understanding the interview itself.

Why the Interview or Personality Test?

These Interviews are aimed at raising the consciousness of teachers about the concerns for the job of teaching, developing knowledge, attitudes, values, skills for conflict resolution, understanding their role as  educators, ways of integrating his teaching-learning points in the school curriculum .So, You will be treated as an would -be -teacher, not an expertise.Interviewers will look at the ingredients of teacher-ship in you which , with the time passes, will be as large as a banyan tree.

Be Presentable: 

  Dress:
 On the interview day dress yourself appropriately. with the perfect choice of colour and fashion. Try to exhibit the "you" in your attitude not the borrowed "you" by your artificial attire. And "you" are the professional.

  Raise Your Voice: 
Be soft in your words, sound in your thoughts, Cristal clear in point of views, master of your articulation and obviously, right pronunciation.

 The Subject You Know best: 

As You are English Graduate or Post Graduate with Teachers Training (or not) be as current as possible on  specialized subjects, Particularly of your special papers. Your ideas on that subject should be an example of lucidity, clarity and inquisitiveness. Again, if you have any special skill of writing , organizing, campaigning etc show a prof of it if they want. Try to drive your conversation towards your known field and something if you don't know tell them frankly that it is unknown to you.

  Have a mock test With Your friends:
 Now let yourself carry a mock test before you step in. Here are a few questions that  often pop up at interview table:
*  Tell me something about yourself. 
* Why are you interested in the profession of teaching?
* If a student is unwilling to study what is your suggestion to him? 
* Who is your ideal teacher? ( Answering this Question is simple, but remember that it is asked to weigh your mannerism. So, never omit the title of respect such as - sir, mrs, mr etc.)
* Which part of your English Literature is your strength? 
*Are you a good teacher? 

Good Luck!!!!!

Ardhendu De

Compare and Contrast James How and Walter How in Galsworthy’s "Justice"


In John Galsworthy’s Justice, James How and Walter How, the owners of a solicitors firm are father and son. Both are educated, polished and reasonable persons. But while the father is more conservative in his attitude to life, the son is rather liberal in his views on the problems of life. Both agree that forgery by Falder is a serious crime. But the son wishes to ignore it as the first crime by him and to give him a second chance. The father, on the other hand, thinks that allowing this crime to go unpunished will itself be a crime.

James How is a grand Victorian. His prudery may sound false, but his concern for honesty and sanctity of institutions is very much genuine. He hates dishonesty and immorality. It is difficult for him to forgive Falder, for he has not only swindled his employer but has proved himself a hardened criminal by ensuring that everybody suspects Davis. He appears to be custodian of the edifice of law, and his devotion to and respect for it makes him very much conservative in his attitude to any offence. Whether it is the first offence or the last, forgery is a crime which cannot go without punishment. So he insists on letting law take its own course and refuses to listen to his son’s and Cokeson’s plea for mercy. This attitude of his represents the attitude of society itself, and it appears to be real not in the system that causes all the suffering.

Character of Ruth Honeywill (John Galsworthy’s "Justice") : How is She Responsible for Falder’s Death?


Introduction: 

John Galsworthy’s "Justice" has a propaganda basis. While his fiction is concerned principally with English upper middle-class life; his dramas frequently find their themes in this stratum of society, but also often deal, sympathetically, with the economically and socially oppressed and with questions of social justice.  His "Justice" also has two problems raised and racked in minute details – the rigorous system of legal justice prevailing in the society and the other is the contemporary prison system. To portray these social hindrances Galsworthy has to device a plot. And here is the story of a young man Falder who has been crunched under the wheel of fatal social systems. And the person behind the Falder’s tragic catastrophe is a love and sympathy personified Ruth Honeywill.


Only woman character in Justice:

 In "Justice", Ruth is the only woman character. A married and having two children, she lives a miserable life under a cruel husband who tortures her both physically and mentally. As a woman of destitute she earns sympathy and love from Falder. In fact, in order to take her away from her cruel husband that Falder commits the crime leading to the subsequent incidents of the play.

Ruth Honeywill’s problems as portrayed in the play "Justice": Ruth, a destitute woman in order to flee from her cruel, tyrannical husband. She needs a friend. In fact, by marrying Falder, who loves her and promises to rescue her from her cruel husband, she would somehow get rid of this hell of marriage. Ruth comes to Falder's office and says, "He's on the drink again, Will.  He tried to cut my throat last night.  I came out with the children before he was awake.  I went round to you."
  However, problems are not solved. Falder with the desperation of love commits forgery and later imprisoned. Ruth is forced to lead an inglorious life with her husband.   Falder spends his prison days in desperation. In the end when Falder commits suicides, even her last ray of hope extinguishes for ever.

Character of the Ragged Man from Lady Gregory's "The Rising of the Moon"


The Ragged Man: Symbol of Struggle and Revolution Spirit  in Lady Gregory's "The Rising of the Moon"

The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory is a play concerning Irish revolution and an effort to arouse Irish nationalism through an appreciation of Irish literature and speech. The ragged man is no other than distinguished patriot, at Irish rebel who has absconded from the prison. In a disguise of poor ballad singers he appears on a seaside. In a secret plan he is plotting to escape in a boat to a safety place. To hide his face he is wearing a wig and a hat. The parson is so clever that he succeeds his real nature to an experience intelligent police man without vast suspicion. The ragged man would have to wait at the sea-side until the fellow friends or reveals come on the harbor in aid of him. He dupes and misleads the sergeant by clever tricks even though he continues his physical gesture of talking singing and smoking.

A fellow feeling or sympathy seized the atmosphere, is at first aroused by the poor ballad singer and defines the purpose of his coming here that some of his ballads are to be sold to the sellers to earn his bread. He even charms the sailors by his song. But the sergeant is more dutiful and the ragged man does not find any safe passage to the Jetty going down the steps. The sergeant is each time takes him by the shoulder and pushes him out. The rebel now finds more tricks to play.

Now the poster packed on the barrel is loudly readout by the man and declares that he knows the parson concerned. As the man is dangerous with violent Weapons, muscles and the thousands tricks for being frightened the sergeant allows the rebel to stay on the Quay.

The next articulation the ragged man pursues over is with his songs and words of patriotism. The musicality of his words so animates the sergeant that he befriends himself in the feelings of patriotism which was larking inside him. Finally, the sergeant recognized the ragged man as a rebel and yet allows escaping as being a friend of ordinal.

The character of a ragged man is not only charming owing to his good qualities of an orator, musician and patriotism but being a true leader and brave of heart. He is a good insight at human character. He readily finds out the latent patriotic feeling of sergeant and by hook and crock he succeeds to convince the sergeant for his save passage. This firmness, strength, versatility, a greatness of leader can be well recognized in The Rising of the Moon.

Spreading the news, [and] The rising of the moon : Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. (n.d.). Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/spreadingnewsand00greguoft

Forum Scene in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Act III, SCENE II. The Forum): Compare and Contrast Brutus' Speech and Antony’s Speech


"A man of great common sense and good taste,—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish playwright, 1901
Referring to Julius Caesar

Both Brutus and Antony are the great orators as we find them in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Their respective speeches signify their character as well as patriotism- the two individual in different colours. At first Brutus delivers his speech and explained the reason of Caesar’s assassination. He says that Caesar being a friend of him makes him proud by his valiant deeds and heroism. But he is a dictator, autocrat and ambitious. For this reasons, in order to save the beloved mother-land Rome he is murdered by him. His death is an inevitable consequence of a tyrant ruler who is persuading the hostility and barbarism to cause the destruction of republic in his country. Brutus the stoic philosopher, have to bear a burden too heavy for him:

Lyrical Faculty in P. B. Shelley’s Poetry


In none of P. B. Shelley’s greatest contemporaries was the lyrical faculty so paramount. Whether we consider his (i) minor songs (ii) his odes, or his more complicated (iii) choral dramas, we acknowledge that he vas the loftiest and the most spontaneous singer in our language’ says Symonds, comparing Shelley to the other romantic poets. The lyrics of Shelley cover a wide range and variety and can be classified under three different heads:

(I) Personal Lyrics

(ii) Lyrics of Nature

(iii) Lyrics of Hope & Liberty

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