What is TP feedback?

TP feedback follows TP, shortly after the end of TP in Bangkok but the next day in Chiang Mai. Immediately after you have taught, you are asked to write a short self-evaluation of your own lesson and very often you will be given time to discuss each other’s lessons first as a group without the trainer. Once the trainer joins you, s/he will naturally take a directive role in the discussion. Contributions will be invited from all observing trainees and on days when you have taught, you will be expected to reflect on your own performance. Developing an ability to evaluate your own teaching is a very important component of the course. Trainees do often find feedback stressful, especially when they feel they have given an unsuccessful lesson. But the role of feedback is to lead you to see what you need to change in order to teach more effectively. By the end of the course, many trainees often agree that it was these feedback sessions that turned out to be one of the most rewarding aspects ...  more

TP feedback follows TP, either immediately or on the following day. In feedback the TP group and the tutor discuss the lessons which took place during TP. While the tutor is inevitably seen as having 'a leading role' in feedback sessions, contributions are invited, encouraged and welcomed from all trainees; these could be in the form of comments or questions (when a trainee is not teaching, s/he is observing fellow trainees teach). When discussing a particular lesson, the teacher of that lesson is expected to comment on the lesson: developing an ability to evaluate one's own teaching is a very important component of the course. Feedback sessions, particularly in the earlier stages of the course, will also involve preparation for future TP sessions. At the end of each feedback session, written feedback from the tutor is given to each candidate who taught. While trainees often find feedback sessions demanding - it can be quite challenging to comment, in a group, on one's own and on ...  more