First TP over - how do you feel?

Hello!

Today many of you taught your first assessed teaching practice lesson and I guess you have spent a fair bit of time discussing the experience with your colleagues by now. However you felt your lesson went, I would like to say that we your tutors were very pleased with what we saw.

And what exactly did we see? Well, we saw hard-working, concentrated people trying to implement whatever they had planned to do while taking account of the students in the room. we saw fledgling teachers making some initial errors of judgement or errors of execution, true, but mostly what we saw was an impressive level of quality and focus. we saw lessons which the teachers who gave them can be proud of at this point.

The important thing is to look objectively at how you operated during your lesson as well as the the outcomes. This means considering how much "teaching time" you had under your belt before standing up their today. Many of you had never tried to teach language before today - the fact that you were able to lead a reasonably successful lesson at your first attempt is a tribute to you.

But let's not get complacent this early. You know how much effort you put into preparing for today and we have seven more lessons ahead of us. So keep focused and good luck!