<p>@PotCM123 Humility, kindness and caring are my watchwords or the “Golden Rule” do unto others as you would have them do to you (paraphasing) and with that thought. . .</p>
<p>As someone who has many more years of writing and interpreting the written word than you and have had many pms thanking me for my post I again urge you to self reflect. Your post claiming to be a non response was in fact a response. I do wish you the best on overcoming what many have a “tone deafness” to others as it will help you in your teaching experience.</p>
<p>I would urge you to think about the possibility that those of us who were not offered a position was due to the fact that the region was closed, our preferences didn’t match what was needed and we chose not to opt to teach a subject that we didn’t feel comfortable making a differnce and could possibly harm students.</p>
<p>Also as I have been through many more interviews than you have i.e. panels, flying in to a site with day long interviews including a meal to confirm social skills, international turnaround interviews or multiple country interviews within a few days I suggest you keep your opinion on how one appears to an interviewer to yourself.</p>
<p>I hope in the future you will be open to learning from peer, supervisory, family of your students and students critiques as those critiques will be vital to making you a success. </p>
<p>Think of this post as a tutorial on how your Professor for your Doctoral thesis will help you gain friends in academia and publishing.</p>
<p>You must be willing to take on the feedback, self reflect, ask for advice, stop talking and listen and then self reflect again.</p>
<p>In academic terms, write, review, edit then repeat. . .repeat. . .repeat.</p>
<p>I hope you think about this back and forth because I want you to do well teaching our youth. If you continue to self promote rather than self reflect then you will be doing TFA and students you will be teaching a huge disservice.</p>
<p>That said, I do wish you well at Institute and in your first year teaching. I hope although you are “waiting” for the admission to a doctoral program that you will take the two year commitment seriously. If you are accepted I hope you defer your entrance to fulfill your term with TFA.</p>