Name : Darin Sabrina
Major : Mathematics Education
Home University : Ganesha University of Education
Receiving University : Prince of Songkla University (PSU) Surat Thani
Blog : https://sabrinaonline.travel.blog/2019/09/18/memorable-experience-in-surat-thani-thailand/
Name of School : PSU Wittayanusorn Surat Thani School
Om Swastyastu. Sawasdee kha everyone. I think that you all know where that words come from. Ya, “Sawasdee kha” is meaning “Hello” in Thailand. So, at this blessed year I got the chance to visit that country to do Teaching Practice. First, I thank so much to God for his blessed, to my parents for their approval, to Ganesha University of Education especially the staff of LP3M for the chance that given to me and Prince of Songkla University Surat Thani that was receiving us as delegation for exchange student to do Teaching Practice. That was be unexpected thing for me. So, I did Teaching Practice in PSU Wittayanusorn Surat Thani School in Surat Thani, Thailand with 9 friends. We stayed in Surat Thani Thailand for one month (13 Augustus – 11 September) and we did Teaching Practice about 3 weeks. First week to do observation in class, the second week to do collaboration teaching with our mentors and the last week to do independent teaching. my mentor asked me to do Teaching Practice in Mattayom 4 that’s same like class 1 for Senior High School. there is 5 class for Mattayom 4. So, this is the report as long i did Teaching Practice :
In short, we started this story on August 14, t 2019. The university’s car pick us from our dormitory to Administration building to did meeting with the staff of Prince of Songkla University for introduce ourselves each other and explanation about this campus.
On August 15,2019 ; we went to Auditorium building to follow Teacher’s day opening ceremony. And we got appreciation from The President of PSU Surat Thani. That was a pride to us.
On August 20-26, 2019 ; i did observation in the class.
On August 27-September 2, 2019 ; i did collaboration teaching with my mentor in classroom.
On September 3-9 ,2019 ; i did independent teaching in classroom.
On September 10 , 2019 we went to school for last day to say thank you and apologize in front of all the teachers, the staff and the students when the ceremony held in the morning. We also give a gift from Undiksha to our mentors and took a photo with our mentors and all the teachers in this school. after that, we have a last meeting with the staff of PSU, headmaster of this school and our mentors to evaluate and give a suggestion as long we do teaching practice in this school.
1. General Information.
1.1 School Profile:
PSU Wittayanusorn Surat Thani School was established on 27 th December 2012 under the auspices of Prince of Songkla University (PSU) Surat Thani. PSU Wittayanusorn Surat Thani School located in the area of PSU Surat Thani campus. PSU Wittayanusorn Surat Thani School was accredited with the score 97.02 by the Office of National Education Standard and Quality Assessment on may 26, 2015. This school has a motto that is wisdom brings lasting success and happiness and the philosophy “Our Soul is for the Benefit of Mankind” where it is created a vision to create a positive workplace culture and develop to be the higher education. PSU Wittayanusorn has the identity “Virtue and Wisdom” and Core Values called “Family”. There is a meaning behind Family such as; F is for Facility, A is for Active, M is for Marshalship, I is for Inspiration, L is for Leadership, and Y is for Youth. PSU Wittayanusorn Suratthani moves from the old building at beside of Science Faculty to the new building near the Administration building of Prince Of Songkla University Surat Thani.
1.2 Academic Facilities:
In this new building, the school does not need to share the same room with Prince of Songkla University. In PSU Wittayanusorn School’s new building also supported by some sports building where the students do the sports activities there such as : swimming pool, basketball court, badminton court and futsal court. PSU Wittayanusorn also has a library, school health unit, laboratories, administration room, teacher room and a meeting room. The good thing about this school is very unique, comfortable, clean and quiet. Students can do the learning process very well without interference. It is because the location of the school is far away from the highway. For public transportation, students usually use the bus or orange car where the students will be stand in front of the school waiting for the pickup. The parking area of PSU Wittayanusorn School is large so it can accommodate the vehicles from teachers and students.
1.3 Teaching System:
PSU Wittayanusorn Suratthani School has two levels of education there is Junior High School and senior high school. Both level education is called as Matthayom. In this school has 6 Matthayom. Matthayom 1-3 is for Junior High School students and Matthayom 4-6 is for Senior High School Students. The learning process of this school starts from 08.30 a.m to 04.00 p.m from Monday to Friday. The teachers in this school preparation media and tools of the subject matter for their student. For the subject of Mathematics, the teachers make a book for one term by themselves and they give to the students for their media learning.
2. Pedagogical Contents:
2.1 Teaching Method:
The teaching method that applies in PSU Wittayanusorn Suratthani School is the Active Learning Method. This method is to apply in all subjects. The Active Learning Method has a function to gain the potential from the students where the students will be able to achieve the learning outcomes related with students individual characters. This method will make the students focus more on things where the teacher taught in the classroom.
2.2 Source of Learning:
For the source of learning, the teachers of mathematics subject make a book by themselves for their student that they teach. They make one book for one term.
2.3 Authentic Assessment:
In this part, the teacher evaluates the students by giving tests where it is held in every third meeting in a week. After that, the teacher will give a unit test for the students for each unit that the teacher taught. There are also midterm test conducted in the middle semester and final test conducted at the end of the semester. For the additional points, the students can get additional points or bonus points by answering some question that the teacher said. This additional points will be helping the students for their final grade or if they got fail in midterm or unit test, they can use the additional points to fix the score.
3. Teaching Plan:
3.1 Curriculum:
PSU Wittayanusorn School develops its own curriculum based on the requirements of the national Curriculum of Basic Education and conducts revisions triennially. There are four curriculum that was the school has made are the 2002 curriculum, 2005 curriculum, 2009 curriculum and 2013 curriculum. Each of them is constructed based on the school’s duty to nurture talented students and suggestions from students, parents, teachers, school counselors and others involved. The significant change from 2005 to 2009 curriculum is the expansion of the varieties of elective subjects and the introduction of the subject Scientific Inquiry and Nature of Science, which familiarizes new students with scientific experiments and ways of thinking.
3.2 Lesson Plan:
In Thailand, the teacher also prepared a lesson plan for teaching in the classroom as a reference. There are some differences in the lesson plan in Thailand and Indonesia. In Thailand, the lesson plan is simpler than Indonesia and 1 lesson plan is used for 1-week teaching in the classroom. The lesson plan here is not described as detail as a lesson plan in Indonesia but the lesson plan here is concise so the teacher will be not fixated of the steps in teaching. Also, there are some activities in the classroom such as opening lessons, giving a reinforcement, giving a question, closing lessons which are similar like the teacher used in Indonesia. However, in making my lesson plan for independent teaching, I am assisted by the tutor teacher and make my version of the lesson plan
3.3 Others:
Teaching Program https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TdSRJ_K9etYVB1WUd5alg1TUc5X2JpUVpaYURvRlI5aVRN
Lesson Plan https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2TdSRJ_K9etR2NVcnE5cjZ6dFduLTFtWVBPOGVvbVg0eS00
4.Teaching Practice:
4.1 Teaching procedures in the classroom:
The teaching procedures in PSU Wittayanusorn Suratthani School is similar to teaching procedures in Indonesia. There are three core parts in teaching procedures where both Thailand and Indonesia use it. Namely opening, core activity and closure. I use these three core parts to teach in the classroom. The following procedures as follows:
1. Opening:
For the opening part, I came to the class and automatically the students stand up and do the greeting “Good morning Teacher”. After the greeting, I did the present list to know who is absent in the classroom. After that, I did brainstorming to relate the material by asked some questions to the students.
2. Core activity:
In the core activity, I divided into two parts. The first meeting I explained to the students about the material to make them understand and I gave 15 minutes to them to answer the student’s book to know their understanding of the material. After that I choose one of them randomly to write their answer on the board and discuss together.
3. Closure:
In this part, I concluded the material before I ended the material and gave them homework to their exercise in home.
4.2 Problem Solving:
There are some problems that I met when I did teaching practice at PSU Wittayanusorn School. The first problem is the school let the students bring their phone. Bring a mobile phone has good and bad effects for the students. The good effect is the students are easier to find the material by searching on the internet. In another side, the students take advantage of this opportunity to play a game in the class, video call with their friends, or listen to music. To fix this problem, before I start the class I will instruct that the students need to put their phone inside of their bags.
5. Summary and Suggestions:
5.1 Purpose of the teaching practice:
The purpose of teaching practice is to give the future teacher the real situation and experience to how to handle a task of teaching in the classroom in another country. By joining this practice teaching in another country, the future teacher is expected to be a good and professional teacher. The other purpose of teaching practice as follows:
a. Applying the teaching ability to teach in full time and integrated skill in real situations.
b. Make the future teachers mastering their teaching skills
c. Develop their social and personal around the school.
d. Develop their learning competencies in English course.
e. Know the school environment conditions of the school abroad.
f. Get experience to teach students in school abroad
g. Understand the academic and non-academic process in school abroad.
5.2 Outcomes of the Practice:
a. Having international experience in developing teacher competencies
b. Having the competence to compete in the era of Globalization and Industrial 4.0
c. Becoming UNDIKSHA ambassador in education and culture field abroad.
5.3 Challenges of the Practice:
The challenges of this practice are the students are not all can speak English. so, when i teaching i need to show more expression to explain the topic to make sure that they understand what i said. but sometimes i used a little Thai Language that i know that related to my topic that i explain to attract their attention. i know the little phrases Thai that related to my topic from my mentor when i do observation and collaboration teaching with him.
5.4 Overall Impression:
Got a chance to do Teaching Practice in this school is unforgatable moment for me. By joining this program I can get new experience in teaching and add it to my mind as new knowledge. Also, I can know the education system in another country and makes me become an open-minded person and understand that every country has different education system.
5.5 Suggestion for Future Improvement:
I think this Exchange program to do Teaching Practice was a good way to get new experience. we got a lot benefit from join this program like learning about the education,culture and taste a food from another country. and don’t forget the sertificate that we get after join this program is really important to find the job in the future. so, if you do the best you will get the best too.
Finally, that is all about my report and what I got here when I did Teaching Practice in PSU Wittayanusorn Surat Thani School, Thailand. I hope this report can motivate you to join this program because you will never know if you never try.
Khob Khun Kha, Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om.
