FOURTH WEEK

Summary and Suggestions

Purposes of practicum

     The main objective of the teaching practicum is to provide student teachers with authentic  hands-on experience in teaching. This is required to develop their teaching skills and to start collecting experiences to enrich their professional wisdom.   It is not enough to read about teaching or to observe others teach, something students have done for years. Student teachers have to practice themselves because practical knowledge and wisdom are held by the individual and cannot easily be transmitted from person to person. Student teachers need know-how, and by connecting the skills of teaching to knowledge, through reflection, they will gradually start developing practical wisdom

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Procedures of practicum

      First procedure, teacher must to know what is the topics to teach, and choose teaching strategies.

     Teacher make lesson plan and prepare lessons and materials, and then teacher teaching manage class, after teaching, evaluation with supervising instructor.

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Outcomes of practicum

     The teacher becomes more trained in teaching, or create the right lesson plan, know the appropriate teaching methods used, can manage the class, manage time.

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 The challenges of practicum

      The challenge of teaching this time is how to explain the lessons in English, then how to control the class when the students are noisy, how to manage time.

     Overall impression

     Understand exactly what kind of teacher, understand how important teaching method, the importance of managing class and time. Lack when  teaching.

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Suggestions for future improvement

     Hope the teacher improve again  English skills,  continues practice  to be a good teacher, can manage the class, manage the time.

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February,14 2018

Today is the closing day for the SEA-Teacher program, this morning I visit the high school department for the last time. Today is valentine's day, high school has an interesting event to celebrate today. each class makes a stand for selling food, clothes, booth to take pictures, there is even a game stand. I thought they are very creative in celebrating this event.

During the day we went to Lingayen to attend the closing ceremony, all sea-teacher and sea-tvet participants attended this event, in this event all participants were certified by PSU. At the end of the show Thai performed traditional dance. After the event was over, we returned to Bayambang, on our way to find food for dinner.