1-Approaching teaching practice
Working with others
• Working with a supervisor and/or a teacher to whom you are attached
• Co-operating with other teachers working in the institution
• Working with other trainees
Your own attitude
We can’t change our personalities but we can alter the impression we
given in class:
By smiling
By responding to what students say
By finding out about students
By showing an interest in both the learning and the personal interests of
the Ss
By trying to enjoy their company as a group
By showing that you are enjoying teaching them
What do observers do during TP?
Sit apart from the students.
Be as silent and inconspicuous as possible.
Try not to make eye contact with the person teaching.
Never interrupt.
Feedback on lessons
Oral / written
Individual / a group of discussion
The trainees who improve most quickly are those who respond positively,
not defensively, to criticism.
Feedback on lessons can be frustrating and ever seem unfair.
Practices could include:
explicit teaching of genre and their relevant conventions, and applying these to
students’ own work, explicit teaching about audiences and how writers and
designers select oral, written, and/or visual language techniques that will be most
effective for their purpose using examples and exemplars, including authentic
student work, to examine how other writers have structured/sequenced their
ideas scaffolding students by providing more detailed help at first, then gradually
removing the support to foster independence using a wide range of planning
methods such as brainstorming, mind-mapping, story-boarding, templates,
listing, diagrams, note-taking, and collaborative digital methods such as wikis or