Summary and Suggestion

a. Purpose of Practicum

1. To enable the practicumer student teachers to develop teaching skills and pedagogy.
2. To encourage the practicumer student teachers to practice English
3. To allow the practicumer student teachers to gain a broader regional and world wide vie
4. To compare the similarities and differences of educational system in other country.

b. Procedures of Practicum

The procedure during practicum includes class observation, team teaching, teaching practice, and evaluation and reflection. The class observation held on the first week, after observation the practicumer has to write a reproduced lesson plan for every meeting. The team teaching held on the second week, in this period the practicumer together with the cooperating teacher should have a cooperate teaching. In this case, the practicumer should handle the laboratory activity, including handled  the pre-lab and main activity, and the the cooperating teacher handled the post-lab. For the teaching practice, held on third week. The practicumer should make three lesson plan with different topics and should teaching in three days. The supervisor observed two times with different topics. The fourth week the supervisor gave the evaluation for the practicumer performanced.

c. Outcomes of Practicum

1. Teaching Experience
2. Class Management
3. Improve English Skills
4. A Reproduced Lesson Plan
5. Lesson Plan
6. Portofolio
7. Self Report

d. The Challenges of Practicum

The challenges of practicum exist in the class management, with 50 students in each class, the practicumer has to make a louder voice, a bigger handwriting in the board, call the different students for recitation, divide the students into smaller groups and ask the students to work quietly.

e. Overall Impression

As a practicumer student teacher really make me thought that to be a teacher is the precious moments. By learning I am teaching and by teaching I am learning. Give an education to others make me feel that I have to keep to be a learner for the rest of my life. I wish I will be the one who to become the future educators of future generations. For other impression, in making a lesson plan, we have to present the values and application of the lesson for each meeting. It can make a good lesson for students that everything that their learn are  related to  their real  life.  Also, the students showed the respect to  a practicumer student teacher, respect with greeting, listen when the practicumer teaching as like the real teacher, friendly, and many other things.

Finally, this is the best way that God gave to me and I am not regretting anything here. I am really grateful to be here as an exchange students. I have learned a lot of things that made me more mature, especially open my mind wider. Since I stay in Philippines for one month, I have already know more about myself, how my strengths and my weakness, and how does it feel when we out of the comfort zone. I have fight and learned hard to get a best scores and experiences, I am so grateful that God gave me the best result and I always believe that the fight, effort, and patience will gain the best result. The beautiful things await.

f. Suggestion for Future Improvement

Suggestion for the future, the practicumer students teacher can implemented all the positively teaching experiences from other country including how to be a good teacher, how to manage the class, how to make a best quality lesson plan, and many other things. Can compare of both countries and can improve the English skills and pedagogy.