Summary and Suggestions

1.1      Purposes of practicum

a.   Teaching practicum is to provide the student teachers with authentic hands-on experience in teaching.

b.      Developing the student teachers teaching skill

c.       To start collecting experiences to enrich student teachers’ professional wisdom.

1.2      Procedures of practicum

Before joining this program, I was selected from my collage. So, I prepared all the things and the administration for going to Philippines. When I arrived at Ninoy Aquino airport I met the other participants. They were Ariza ( arizasafira.blogspot.com ), Restu ( winaest.blogspot.com ), Farwa (anggrainifarwaapok.blogspot.com ), Rara ( nurfajrazzahra79seateacher.wordpress.com ), Mandala ( seameomandala.blogspot.com ), Rangga ( ranggakrisna.wordpress.com ), Nita ( seameonita.blogspot.com ) and Iqra.

The first week was the student teachers did classroom observation, mentoring and coaching. At that time, they were introduced to the lesson taught, prepared the lesson plan and I knew the characteristic of the students of USHS. The second week was the student teachers got mentoring and coaching: teaching assistantship and immersion, in this time they could fix the lesson plan to get a good performance. The third week was the student teachers got classroom teaching, they applied the planning of the teaching. They show their performance in front of the class and got feedback of the critic teacher. The last week was initial visit that the student teachers showed their final demo of teaching and for all of the duration the student teachers got minimal twenty hours.

1.3      Outcomes of practicum

a.       Increase understanding and appreciation of the education process and learning in school.

b.      Gain reasoning power in studying, formulating, and solving educational problems in school.

c.       Gain experiences and skills to carry out school management learning and activities.

d.      Giving an opportunity to be able to act as a motivator, facilitator, and help thinking as a problem solver. 

1.4      The challenges of practicum

The challenges will be found everywhere we face the world. In this teaching program got many challenges, first I found that students of USHS are very smart and critical students moreover they are still junior high school and related to my major that is English, I struggled to make my students understood the topic that presented. On the other hand English is they second language, I had to present the topic well.

I just realize that I had different pronunciation when I thought them and I had PowerPoint presentation and asked them to read the text or example first to minimize misunderstanding between the student teacher and the students.

1.5      Overall impression

        Be one of this program was fun, giving a lot of experience and learning that has never been obtained before. I am very grateful to all of you, CLSU, USHS and all my new family in Philippines. When I was leaving, many people reminded me of what kind of the Philippines was based on their knowledge. But I tried to always think positively about it. When I arrived in Philippines a warm welcome from Mr. Regidor Gaboy and my friends and I were met with new families in Philippines. All these thoughts were erased with the feeling of campus and school that warmly welcomed us and we do not think about everything that we have not known about something but we have to realize and learn about the culture there before we face it.

1.6      Suggestions for future improvement

All event of this program run well. The service of the receiving university was very good.  But we have to know about ourselves how we ready to face this program. Learn more about the culture, characteristic, and the environment. when you arrived there, you will be ready to do it and familiarize yourselves. For The students who wants to join this program, please prepare well and don’t forget to bring something special and special performance if there is sudden activity.