Procedures
I developed PO for the practicum in a manner that incorporated the suggestions by Day (1990), Cosh (1999), Vacilotto and Cummings (2007) and Gün (2011). The planned outcome would be teachers who engaged in reflective thinking about their teaching. The focus of PO is exploration, description and reflection. When introducing PO, I discuss the differences between exploring and describing and supervising and evaluating. I relate exploring and describing what the observer sees in a peer’s classroom to gaining a greater understanding of the teaching and learning processes.