• Think carefully about the questions asked by the experienced teacher. What are her purposes in raising these particular questions?
  
  
• Do you feel this pre-lesson conference will make a positive contribution to how this lesson will be taught? Were the questions sufficiently searching so that they allowed the novice teacher to re-consider his lesson?
  
  
• Given that this conference was conducted shortly before the lesson, is this an appropriate moment to raise these important issues? If not, how long before the lesson should they be raised?
  
  
• In addition to raising issues and potential problems, are there practical things that the experienced teacher could do to help the novice teacher respond to her questions, or is it up to the novice teacher to sort out the problems?

( You will be able to feed back the results of your discussion later in the Unit. )