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What do observers do during TP?
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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.
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