Welcoming ceremony

Hi, my name is I Made Arry Anggabawa, majoring in informatics education at Ganesha University of Education, my journey started with the U To U program by Ganesha University of Education, with a scheduled departure of 6 August – 3 September 2019, destination country Thailand, Ubon Ratchathani, partner university namely Ubon Ratchathani University and placed in the partner school Lukhamhanwarinchamrab School.

On August 7, we were invited to a welcoming ceremony at Ubon Ratchathani University and warmly welcomed our arrival. There we participated in discussing The 9th Language and Culture Camp 2019. There we also delivered our goals, introduced ourselves and expressed our enthusiasm for implementing this program.

We are very grateful to UBU (Ubon Ratchathani University) for facilitating and providing information that we need to know, such as minimarkets, traditional markets there, Big C, Tesco Lotus, places of worship for Buddhists. And we were escorted to dormitories by bus.

On August 8, 2019, Kanjana Manomai took us to the Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school, which is a world-class standard school. Before the meeting, we took part in the ASEAN DAY in the school hall. After that the meeting began, we made an introduction, conveyed our goals, and what we did at school. Then we were separated according to the area of expertise guided by the chair of each field and discussion in the teacher’s lounge.

On August 9, 2019, we made observations to class, there were 5 computer lab rooms, in our observation we conducted observations and interviews. Observation carried out for 1 week.

On August 10 – August 11, 2019, we took part in The 9th Language and Culture Camp 2019 organized by Ubon Ratchathani University in Ban Pu Home Stay, Mukdahan province. There we toured the village and observed the tourist village there. In the evening there was a Bai Sri Su Kwan event and dancing together.

General Information

• The Profile of the School

Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school is located in 37 Moo 11 Sathon Mak street, Saen Suk district, Distrik Warin Chamrap Province Ubon Ratchathani. Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school was built on the 10th of June , 1974 based on Dr. Ko Sawatdipanich’s initiative who was as a general director of general education department. The school was established for teaching for the first time by using old building of Benjama Maharaj school which was located behind provincial hall of Ubon Ratchathani, named “Sekolah Warin Thammakitta” with a name Khun Dharm Kittika Sheriff first from Distrik Chamrap. Then, sir Charoen Phantong, the governor of Ubon Ratchathan province changed the name into “Lue Khamharn Warin Chamrap School” by the name of the godfather, the rumors and words believed to be souldiers during the reign of the lord of Phra Ta and the founder of Distrik Kham Nam Saap (currently Distrik Warin Chamrap).

In the 1976 academic year, the classrooms were organized into 25 classrooms, therefore the classrooms were inadequate. The 1st grade students On the August 3rd, 1977, were moved to study together at current school located in no.37, Moo 11, Baan Kham Saen Rat, Saen Suk district, Warinchamrap Ubon Ratchathani. In 2010 academic year, the students anticipated in World Class Standard School Program.

• Facilities of the school

Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school had adequate facilites, it had 73 classrooms, a laboratorium, a cumputer lab, a field, and sport facilities, traditional and modern music facilities. With those facilities, it made students were able to develop themselves not only in education field, but also in their own hobby and skill. Last but not least, Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school had a large car park as the result it didnt bother the surrounding facilities.

• Teaching System

Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school had 2 level of educations, among others junior high school and senior high school. Second level education was called Matrium (Matthayom). There were 6 Matrium in this school. Matrium 1-3 for junior high school students, and matrium 4-6 for senior high school students. The teaching process was started at at 08.30 a.m – 04.00 p.m from Monday-Friday. For Informatics Technology lesson here were devided into several other sub teachings such as WEB, Application, Mobile Application, basic programming, computation knowlegde, and multimedia.

Pedagogical Contents

• Teaching Method

There were some teaching methods used by teacher, it depends on the subject and the teacher.  There were direct teaching method, problem based learning, and project based learning.

• Source of Learning

Source of learning used by students awere not only from given materials but also from provided books in class. Besides that, the source of learning is from internet too, students were allowed to bring handphones. There would be an evaluation or practice after the material given or provided.

• Authentic Assesment

Assesment process given by the teacher was usually a test form or a practice form in the end of the lesson. Not only that, there were other assesments such as middle test and final test. In addition to the provision of test and assesment tasks also carried out by giving project that would be presented by students as well as the result of discussion and question and answer students.

Teaching Plan

• Curriculum

Curriculum used in Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school was semester program which had been matched with Thailand Education system (World Class Standard School), therefore when I arranged a lesson plan, I had to discuss it with my tutor teacher.

• Lesson Plan

In Thailand, the teachers always prepared a lesson plan as their reference before teaching. There wew some differences between lesson plan in Indonesia and lesson plan in Thailand. In Thailand, the lesson plan was simpler and more detail than lesson plan in Indonesia. However, the structures were generally the same, consists of preface, core activity, closing.

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Teaching Practice

• Teaching Prosedures in the Classroom

Teaching prosedure in Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school was typically the same with the teaching procedure in Indonesia. There were 3 procidures, preface, core activity, and closing. The procedures are explained as follows:

Preface

In preface, I opened with greeting, cheecking students’ attendant, asking for assignment, then explaining material that would be discussed in the ongoing lesson

Core Activity

In core activity, I firstly explained the theory of material that would be delivered. Next, I gave the students tutorial and guided the students to participate in the tutorial I given. In this stage, I allowed students to ask freely if they have a question.

Closing

Before ending the class, I re-checked if there was a student who had not understood the material. After that, I gave students a homework for the next meeting and told them what material that would be discussed in the next meeting.

• Time Management and Activities for Each Meeting

For Web Application lesson in Lukhamhanwarinchamrab school, students got 1 meeting in a week (2 hours of meeting), for 1 hour of meeting was 50 minutes. Based on what I have mentioned before, before starting for the for the first practice, I would explain the theory a liitle bit from the material.

• Problem Solving

There were some problems when I taught in classrooms, one of them was: not all of students could speak English. Moreover, because I taught Informatics Technology lesson, the difference of software used for teaching was also an obstacle, because I had to get used to use the installed software in the computer lab.

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Summary and Suggestion

• Purpose of the Teaching Practice

The purpose for teaching practice is for giving a teaching experience for future teachers, and by joining teaching practice overseas in hope to prepare a professional and competent teacher. Other purposes of teaching practice, among others:

1. Applying teaching skill
2. Making future teacher masters their teaching skill
3. Developing social and individual skill of the future teacher
4. Developing the competency of learning English
5. Understanding school condition overseas
6. Gaining experience of teaching students overseas
7. Undertanding academic process and non academic process in school overseas

• Outcomes of the Practice

1. Having an international experience in developing new competency
2. Having a competency to compete in globalization era and industry 4.0
3. Being an ambassador of UNDIKSHA in the form of education and culture overseas

• Challenges of the Practice

The main challenge in this teaching practice was language itself. Not all of the students, teachers, and other people understand English. This obstacle challenged me as a teacher to be able to guide students, make them undertsand the materials. Moreover, cultural differences pushed me to be a good role model for the students.

• Overall Impression

The teaching practice overseas was excelent and beneficial because I had a new experience to teach students overseas, a very good program because it gets insights and experiences that are rarely obtained. I also got new knowledge in term of cultures, foods, tourism objects, and others.

• Suggestion for Future Improvement

For the next university students who want to join this program, firstly you have to prepare your mental and physical health but don’t forget about administration. Because when you spend 1 month overseas, you body has to get used to the weather and foods.

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Gallery of activity :

The 9th Language and Culture camp 2019

Teaching practice

Culture exchange

Informatics teacher at school