This week in Hanoi, two candidates I’m coaching were asked to run a 25‑minute A2 teen class (18 students) with no behavior notes or co-teacher — does that match your schools’ hiring practice? I want to advocate for demos that show classroom management technique (clear routines, expectations, quick corrective feedback) rather than survival mode; what parameters are you seeing, and what would you call reasonable?
25 minutes with 18 unknown A2 teens and no notes is a stress test, not a fair demo. > routines, expectations, quick corrective feedback) rather than survival mode; what parameters are you seeing, and what — we switched to a 12–15 min micro-lesson with a seating chart and two flagged behaviors, plus a 2‑min debrief on routines; would you push schools to at least provide that or a co-teacher?
, I’m with @fgibson22 — a 25-minute A2 teen class with 18 strangers and “no behavior notes” measures adrenaline, not teaching… If the school insists on live, make it fair: cap at 12, give a one-page learner profile and two likely behavior scenarios, and allow the co-teacher to pause once; otherwise do a 10-minute micro-teach plus a quick management role-play. Are your schools at least paying for these demos?
@fgibson22 I’d swap 25 minutes for a 10-minute routines micro-teach, plus class profile and rubric; ‘no behavior notes’ seems unreasonable.
Would the school accept a “first three minutes to set my entry routine” plus a pre-planned “interrupt” from the observer so you can demo the reset and attention signal? That’s worked for me as a fair management check without turning it into a stamina trial, @fgibson22.
I’d ask schools to let candidates submit a short video from their own class, then do a live “management drill” on-site: entry routine, attention signal, and one reset with the panel role‑playing students — stress test, not CrossFit. @cfrost50 would that give you the evidence you want without the chaos of an unknown group?
With ‘no behavior notes’, I’d allow a printed seating plan; assessor triggers two specific misbehaviors. Thoughts?