SUMMARY AND SUGESTION

1.     Purposes of Practicum

In my opinion, the purpose of this practicum is to provide opportunities for pre-service students teacher to find out how the learning system in other countries. Through this program, the pre-student teacher can understand their teaching abilities. Besides that, pre-service students teacher can find out how the methods and strategies of other countries, curriculum and lesson plans they make, and also we can improve our communication skills using English. This program can also be a venue for cultural exchange. Living in other countries with different cultural and religious backgrounds is a challenge for us, this teaches us about autonomy. Through this program we learn a lot about how to make a good lesson plan, how to teach using methods and strategies that don't make students bored, we become more creative, innovative, and confident. This is an important thing for our future which will later become a teacher.

2.     Procedures of Practicum

I started my observation on the first week of the 3rd day. I followed my cooperating teacher in the 7th grade Newton and Dalton. I observed how my cooperating teacher taught. After that in the second week, I made observations and teaching assists. I not only observe but also help students who have difficulty understanding the material. My total observation hours and teaching assistants are 10 hours. because I do it 5 times, 2 hours every day. in the third week, I began my teaching practice. I teach from Monday to Thursday for 2 hours per day. So the total hours I get are 8 hours for teaching practice. At the fourth week, I did the final of my demo. this is the last time I teach and also this is the last time I come to NEUST Laboratory High School. The total hours I got from teaching assists to the final demo were 20 hours.

3.     Outcomes of Practicum

I got a lot of outcomes from this practicum. I learned to be a good and professional teacher. I learned to be responsible for everything entrusted to me. Starting from making lesson plans, determining learning methods and strategies to being responsible for making my class comfortable so students can receive lessons well. From this program I can improve my teaching skills, I know how to manage classes well, and I am able to handle the students with different characteristics. Besides that, my confidence and communication skills using English also increased.

4.     Practical Challenges

During my teaching practice, there were some challenges that I had. First is a language problem. When I teach, not all students understand English, especially I teach physics that uses a lot of special words. This is a challenge for me because I have to find a way to make students understand what I mean. Sometimes I use pictures, give examples, or use body language to make them understand. Second, I am a little difficult in terms of managing time in teaching. I only have 60 minutes in one meeting and I have to complete all the stages in my lesson plan starting from the preliminary activities to giving the assignment.

5.     Overall Impression

First, I say thank you very much for the implementation of this program because through this program there are so many benefits that I get. I met great people from other countries, we exchanged cultures and I get experiences that are very useful for my future. Again, through this program I can improve my confidence, responsibility, teaching skill, ability to communicate in English, I am able to live in another country that has a different religious and cultural background. I am very grateful and thankful to all parties behind this program. I have a very big appreciation for Seameo and this Sea teacher batch 7 programs.

6.     Suggestions for Future Improvements

The suggestions I can give to improve this program in the future is about the guideline for writing blogs. I am a little bit disappointed with the changes in the guideline. The guideline that was given in the last time different from what we listened during the orientation even though we had already made a few posts in our blog. I hope that in the future I can pay attention to that because the blog is included in the assessment of this program. Good luck always for the same and next batch of 8.