1. Purposes
of Practicum
§ To
make the student teacher be able to
developing knowledge about technology for teaching practice.
§ To
make the student teacher make a bigger connection with people from another
country.
§ To
make the student teacher be able to develop the teaching skills and pedagogy, the
communication skills, and the English skills.
§ To
make the student teacher be able to know the culture of other country.
§ To make the student teacher experience how to teach
overseas.
2. Procedures
of Practicum
Phase
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Detail of Activities
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Teacher’s
Activity
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Student’s Activity
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Introduction
(7
minutes)
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Teacher opens the
lesson by greeting to the students.
·
Teacher introduces
own selves.
·
Teacher checks
student’s attendance.
·
Teacher tells the
learning goals that students are expected to achieve.
·
Teacher informs to
students about learning method (Time Token) that teacher will teach.
·
Teacher motivates
students by tell them an example of elements in real life.
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·
Students respond
teacher’s greeting.
·
Students ask some
question to teacher.
·
Students pay
attention to teacher’s explanation.
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Core
Activities
(30
minutes)
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·
Teacher gives some
new vocabularies.
·
Teacher gives key
concept about the bond order
·
Teacher gives an
example and Short Test for student
·
Teacher Explain about
bond length and bond strength use video and power point
·
Teacher gives
student’s worksheet, and explain the rule to answer.
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·
Students repeat the
vocabularies after teacher.
·
Students pay
attention to teacher’s presentation.
·
Students pay
attention to teacher’s presentation.
.
·
Students following what
teacher say.
·
Students pay
attention to teacher’s presentation.
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Closing
(3
minutes)
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·
Teacher asks students
to make the conclusion about bond length, bond strength and bond order
·
Teacher confirms the
conclusion that students made.
·
Teacher appreciates to
all students due their participation, do big applause.
·
Teacher says ‘Good
Bye’
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·
Students mention the
conclusion.
·
Students pay
attention to teacher’s explanation.
·
Students do the big
applause.
·
Students greet to
teacher.
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3. Outcomes
of Practicum
From
the practicum, I have a lot of experience about teaching skills in different
cultures, pedagogy, improving the quality of English, and increasing knowledge
about the use of technology media in the classroom. A special satisfaction when
students who are taught have an understanding of what the teacher has taught.
The word that I will always miss from them is "Yes, I understand
teacher". That word adds to my confidence to become a future teacher
especially a teacher in the ASEAN region.
4. The
Challenges of Practicum
The
problem that I found when teaching was the language barrier. Their
understanding of English is so weak that I demand to speak in Thai as I can.
This obstacle is also an opportunity between me and students to recognize
deeper languages, I learn Thai and students learn English. When I ask, they
actually understand the answer but don't know how to manage the words in
English, moreover their lack of confidence. So my job as a teacher is to
improve their confidence. Their accents in English are so different that it
requires me to adapt more. So often I repeat the command sentence two to three
times. I overcome these constraints by frequently interacting with students
using body language at once.
5. Overall
Impression
I
feel happy when I am stationed in Thailand, especially in Nakhon Pathom. We can
find good people everywhere even though they don't understand English, they
always help us with the maximum like experience when looking for drinking
water, we ask the campus security guard who doesn't understand English and we
use google translate to communicate with him, he understands but not explain in
English. This experience taught me that helping does not use conditions. I got
a lot of acquaintances in Thailand from various backgrounds, lecturers, students,
students, teachers and internships from several Universities in Thailand. I
like the food with spicy type, according to taste. Love the school environment
that has high technology, and I really appreciate those who have great respect
and tolerance for each other.
6. Suggestions
for Future Improvement
Being
a teacher is not only a transfer of knowledge but also a transfer of life
attitudes and skills. Reviewing the material before the lesson begins is
certainly an important point because it is feared that students have questions
beyond teacher expectations, so that a lot of resources are needed. Actually
teach for re-learning. Adaptation is also very necessary to increase harmony in
interaction. In general students are very happy when the teacher teaches Chemistry
in English which also speaks a little Thai vocabulary.