Summary and Suggestion

6.1 Purposes Of Practicum 

The purpose of this practicum is to prepare good teachers in the future to teach better and better prepare themselves to become teachers in the future. Through this program can improve English language skills, communication to new people, and have a good relationship with others. In addition, through this program also exchanges of students know a different culture with their country, adapt to the new environment and respect the culture of other countries.

6.2 Procedures Of Practicum

  As long as I practice teaching in Science and Technology - Laboratory School, my cooperating teacher is Ma'am Analyn C. Sa-an the teacher taught me a lot about practicum procedures in this school, besides there are also coordinators in college of education Ma'am Shailini Gestosani who notifies the procedure in one month's internship program, including :

Orientation in the college of Education

Class of observation with the Cooperating Teacher

Teaching Practice

Teaching Assist

Teaching Evaluation

Reflection

6.3 Outcomes Of Practicum

The practice of teaching made me get a lot of new knowledge and new experiences about teaching students.

Practice teaching can improve English language skills

The practical teacher can experience the new culture from the difference country.

The practical teacher gains more knowledge regarding to the teaching skills and pedagogy.

6.4 The Challenges Of Practicum 

The challenge for me when practicing teaching at the Science and Technology - Laboratory School is time management. My class teaches and classes before biological material are located far apart so students are a little late to come, and sometimes other teachers are still in the class that I will teach. So I have to wait for my students for about 5 to 10 minutes. Besides that, the lesson plan in this school is very detailed so that sometimes the time is not enough to carry out all the procedures in the lesson plan. And my cooperating teacher said that my voice was very small so sometimes students did not hear it, because in this school there were 50 students in different classes with my country which usually in one class 36 students were the most.

Another challenge is language barriers, because sometimes students find difficulties in understanding my English because there are differences in pronunciation between Indonesia and the Philippines in English. So, I have to try very hard to make students really understand what I'm talking about in class. To overcome the language barrier I also tried to adapt to the pronunciation of Filipino English. Sometimes the my cooperating teacher explains again in Filipino language so that students understand what is being taught.

6.5 Overall Impression

Overall my impression of this program is very good. Because we have new friends and new families who come from different countries, have new experiences, different cultures with their own countries, improve their ability to speak English, improve technical knowledge in teaching students. In addition, study the lesson plan that is different from the country itself. It's a good project and I hope it's a lot of interest and be able to join this program.

6.6 Suggestion For Future Improvement

Suggestions for future improvements in Sea-Teacher are that the University will be visited by exchange student Sea-Teacher to inform about the curriculum and topics taught. So that exchange students better prepare themselves before joining the program and when implementing this program are better prepared.