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3 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. Keeping track ✓ It is worth keeping a TP file, including lesson plans, reflections on your own teaching, copies of supervisor’s comments, examples of materials and visual aids used and students’ written work. ✓ It’s valuable to keep a personal diary of TP in which you reflect on your success and failures. 3