Appendix 1: Questionnaire for PTC IIIS

A. Personal and Professional Information

In this section if you cannot remember the information exactly, please put down your best guess, and add (approximately) in brackets.

1. Student Number: ____________

2. Sex Female ( ) Male ( )

3. In which district were you placed for TP? _________________

4. Who decided on your placement? (tick one)

Myself
TP Coordinator
Other say who

5. Please give the dates you began and ended teaching

Began
Ended

6. How many days during the TP period were you absent from the TP schools________

7. How many teaching periods per week were you allocated? ___________

8. Which subjects did you teach? (List them in the box below)

A
B
C

B. NTTC supervision

9. How many times in all were you visited by an NTTC lecturer? ________________

10. How many different lecturers visited you? (Tick one)

I was visited by the same lecturer each time
I was visited by two different lecturers
I was visited by three or more different lecturers

11. What were the results of the visit(s)? (you may tick more than one for each visit)

Visits	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
I was given a grade
I was given written feedback/advice
I was given verbal feedback/advice
I was observed-no feedback was given

12. How often has TP been discussed in your classes since you returned to college?

Education	Once	Several times	Never
English
Mathematics
Science

C. School Experiences

13. Looking back, who gave you most help during TP? Please rank the following 1 - 5 in order of helpfulness; (only circle one figure per item)

PERSON	RANK
College tutor	1	2	3	4	5
Principal	1	2	3	4	5
Co-operating teacher	1	2	3	4	5
Other trained teacher	1	2	3	4	5
Fellow student	1	2	3	4	5

14. Please comment on these aspects of teaching. Did you find them difficult, moderately difficult, or easy? Tick as appropriate:

Aspect	Difficult	Moderately difficult	Easy
Lesson planning
Scheming
Record of work done
Deciding on appropriate teaching methods
Classroom control
Finding appropriate teaching materials
Class size

15. For which of these did you get sufficient help from the school?

	No help	Some help	Enough help
Lesson planning
Scheming
Record of work done
Deciding on appropriate teaching methods
Classroom control
Finding appropriate teaching materials
Class size
Ability to express myself
Knowledge of content to be taught

D. Your Personal Views

16. Length of TP (tick as appropriate)

It is the right length
It should be longer
It should be shorter
In two blocks rather than one

17. Please give reasons for your response

__________________________________________________
__________________________________________________

18. Write down three things you feel you learnt from your TP experience.

1. ________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________
3. ________________________________________________

19. Write down three things which angered/frustrated you most during teaching practice

1. _________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________

20. Please suggest up to three things that could be done to improve TP

1. _________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________