GUIDELINE TOPICS (SELF REPORT - Sea Teacher Batch 8)
GUIDELINE TOPICS
PART I
A. School
General Information and Academic Administration
Student Name :
ELSI TRISMA
Home University
: Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajhabat University
Receiving School :
Satit (Demonstration) School of Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University (NSTRU)
Blog Adress :
elsitrisma.blogspot.com/seateacherbatch8
1. School
profile
Name of the Receiving University: Nakhon
Si Thammarat Rajabhat Univerisity
Name of Institution: Satit
Demonstration School Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University
Category: Education
Status of the School: Public
School
Address of the University:
Name of Street:1 Moo 4
Tha Ngio
Name of the Capital District: Mueang
Nakhon Si Thammarat
Name of the Province: Nakhon
Si Thammarat
Name of the Country: Thailand
School Director: Dr. Kusuma
Chaiyasai
Contact Number of the Institution: 075 –
809874
Website: www. satit.nstru.ac.th
History of the Demonstration School
YEAR
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DESCRIPTION
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1972
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The first demonstration school was established in the academic year 1972 with
Ajarn Thawee Pipa Kaew, former director of Nakhon Si Thammarat Teachers
College, had planned to establish a demonstration school, with the objective
of allowing students to experiment in teaching, because at that time there
were many students who had to leave for a lot of training but were unable to
find enough training schools.
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1980
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The second demonstration school was established in the academic year 1980.
The Department of Teacher Training had given importance to the management of
kindergarten education, under the Faculty of Education By Prof. Raviwan
Rangsayapha, became the first department head with the support of many
faculty members. The college therefore established a demonstration school for
another term by assigning the Department of Education and the Faculty of
Education to supervise and operate in the academic year 1981.
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1985
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The third demonstration school stated again at the
end of the 1985 academic year, with the driving force of Mr. Decho Swananon,
Director-General of the Department of Teacher Training. At that time,
there was a policy for every college to establish a demonstration school in
various teacher colleges. The college then decided to revise the existing
pre-school childcare training center project to be a kindergarten
demonstration school again.
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1995
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Later, in 1995, teachers’ colleges across the
country changed their name to Rajabhat Institute in accordance with the
Rajabhat Institutes Act BE 2538 (1995) to become higher education
institutions in the Ministry of Education. The school has changed its name to
“Demonstration School, Rajabhat Institute Nakhon Si Thammarat”
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2004-2006
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During the year 2004, His Majesty the King graciously ordered the enactment
of the law called “Rajabhat University Act 2004” with each Rajabhat
University being a juristic person under the Office of the Higher Education
Commission. It was then changed to Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University
from Rajabhat Institute. Therefore, the changed resulted to the Demonstration
School to change its name to Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University
Demonstration School in the academic year 2006 with the determination of the
President, Assistant Professor Chatchai Sukkakarn, in line with the main
mission of the university, which is to create and develop students in the Faculty
of Education to have a strong teaching experience and the needs of parents in
the kindergarten level.
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2009
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In the fiscal year 2009, Asst. Prof. Chatchai Sukkakarn,
the President, supported the school in a special case. He had established a
budget to build a school’s building permanently. With the Bureau of the
Budget approving the budget for the construction of the Demonstration School
Building, amounting of 110 million baht, it is a 4-storey reinforced concrete
building and each floor consists of classrooms and special rooms.
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2012
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In the academic year 2012, the demonstration school for both the
preschool and primary school students had used the new school building. It is
named as “Wachira Thipangkornpipat Building” for Sirimongkol by requesting a
name from Crown Prince.
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At present
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Throughout more than fifty years, the Demonstration
School of Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University has been developed and
continuing to be developed and at present, the number of students enrolling
has increased steadily. In addition, the Demonstration School of Nakhon Si
Thammarat Rajabhat University also serves as a professional experience place
for students of Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University. It has always been
since its inception and is still a study research for personnel of the
university as well as being a center to help the outside community to
participate in the development of education and publicize the university to
be known for external society.
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Philosophy of the Institution:
The following are the philosophy of Satit Demonstation
School Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University:
Knowledge
Morality
Innovation
Development
Vision of the Institution
“Within the year 2022, the Nakhon Si Thammarat
Rajabhat University Demonstration School Lab School Prototype”
Mission of the Institution
The Demonstration School
has a mission to manage education to meet the needs of society and local as
follows.
1.
Develop the
organization to have the potential to produce students at the level of basic
education to be academic excellence and have ethics.
2.
Develop
innovation in teaching and learning technology, using Thai and foreign
languages for
communication
3.
Develop the
potential of the school to be a source of experience and learning resources for
students of Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University.
4.
Develop the
potential for the promotion of arts and culture and local wisdom.
5.
Develop the
organization management system according to good governance
principles.
Goals of the Institution
1.
Demonstration
School is a center for academic services in education. To develop
innovation in teaching and administration;
2.
The
Demonstration School is a standard training experience for
professionals. And as a model for quality education management in
accordance with the standards;
3.
Students have
good personality and values and have the
ability to carry on Thai wisdom;
4.
Students have
knowledge according to the curriculum standards and focus of the school;
5.
The
Demonstration School has good management.
Identities
The
identities of the institution are the following:
Good learning
Discipline
Beautiful Respect
Beautiful Speech
2. Academic
support system
Before entering
the school Satit Demonstration School there is a parking lot, and there is also
security. Has 4 floors, on the ground floor there is a children’s playground, a
park, and also a flag ceremony field. On the 1st floor is used for
children’s dining during break time and there are also classes for kindergarten
children. On the 2nd floor there is a classroom for elementary
school children. On the 3rd floor there is also a classroom for
elementary school children and there is also a teacher’s room. On the 4th
floor is also a classroom for elementary school children.
Satit
Demonstration School Nakhon Si Thammarat academic support system includes
instructional materials, teaching methods, technology-based facilities,
educational services, school friendly environment and activities provided for
the students to enrich their knowledge and skills inside and outside the
school.
For instructional materials, the
demonstration school is rich with variety of instructional materials ready to
be used by the students. They are not only found in the teacher’s cabinet but
also found pasted in the walls of every classrooms. These instructional
materials are colourful that help in catching the students’ attention. They are
also easily to be seen and could be read from a far.
When it comes to teaching methods,
some teachers use the traditional – white board, book and marker method, some
use the projector screen and some teachers combine the modern and the
traditional method to make learning more fun and enjoyable.
In using technology – the
school uses LCD projector and projector screen when the students need to see
something or watch some videos. The teachers also use this as a way to motivate
the students for their next lesson. They use it to play video and the students
will dance with it.
There are various educational services that
the school offers. These are the following:
1.
Library – inside the school, there is a one room
provided for books only. It is where the students go and read some books during
their free time and when the teachers require them to do.
2.
Science and Math Rooms – these are located on
uppermost floor of the building on the western side of it. Usually, the
students have their club time every week and in that time, the teachers
together with their students go to the room and do something like watching
science fiction films, doing science experiments or sometimes doing projects
for Science.
3.
Art Room – on the third floor of the building, the
art room could be found. It has so many artworks made by the teacher and the
students from the past and up to the present. They go there whenever it is
their art time of whenever there is a club
activity.
4. School Band – During flag ceremony, the school band
which is composed of students. Whenever the students started to march, it is
also the signal that the flag ceremony is also about to start. They march on
the ground while the other students line up in front of the flag pool.
The school is an environment friendly
institution not only because it has so many plants and trees and it
is near the mountain but also for the reason that trash bins can be found in
every corners of each floor. This help the students to be more disciplined when
it comes to their trashes.
Lastly, there are various activities offered
by the school to cater different students’ needs and interests. Recently, they
launched the Sports Festival wherein students where given the chance to show
their skills in sports.
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| THE DINNING ROOM |
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| UNIVERSITY CANTEEN |
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| UNIVERSITY CANTEEN |
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| TEACHER'S ROOM |
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| TEACHER'S ROOM |
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| THE PLACE OF THE FLAG CEREMONY |
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| CLASSROOM |
3. TEACHING SYSTEM
Satit
Demonstration School Nakhon Si Thammarat Rajabhat University is a public school
that offers two programs for students. The first one is the Mini Program and
the second one is the English Program. It has Pre School, Kindergarten Mini
Program, Kindergarten EP Program, EP Primary Program and Mini Program. Inside
the classroom, most especially in the English Program, there are two advisers.
One foreign adviser and the other one is a Thai adviser. The two of them manage
the class together.
The teaching system of the school is really amazing. Values like being
discipline, being punctual, and being kind could be seen in every students. A
scheduled teacher and student teachers line up in front of the school gate to
greet students and parents coming inside the school. The students also greet
back the students. They also do that in the afternoon, when the parents and the
students go out of school after class hours ends. They also hug the teacher
before going out of the classroom as sign of saying good bye and thank you for
the day.
Also, during the flag ceremony, students are not seen doing anything. Instead,
they line up straight until the end of the ceremony. And inside the classroom,
when the teacher (Thai or foreign) greets them before they start their class,
they answer back with utmost politeness.
During the lesson, the teacher gives a lot of hands-on activities because
according to what I have observed, they learn best when they are given hands-on
activities before and after the discussion, be it in individual, in pair or in
groups. The students are also active when it comes to recitation as seen in
every class I have observed, if the teacher give points to each of them every
time they recite.
Some teachers also use the traditional most especially when teaching the
Thai language. They effectively use the white board and a pen only for
teaching. There are some teachers most especially those who are teaching Arts,
Science, English and Mathematics who use modern instructional materials. They
use laptop, LED projector, and speakers during class discussion. Some teachers
use both of the modern and the traditional style to enhance and make teaching
and learning effective.
The teaching and learning process are
held 5 days a week from Monday to the schedule as follows:
08.00-08:40 Morning Assembly
08:40-09:40 Study in
classroom (period 1)
09:40-10:40 Study in
classroom (period 2)
10:40-11:00 Milk break
11:00-12:00 Study in
classroom (period 3)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Study in classroom (period
4)
14:00-14:50 Activity
14:50-15:10 Snack break
15:10-16:00 Activity
4. Material
and other learning sources
Various
materials and other learning resources can be found inside and outside the
school. These materials and learning resources help the students to have a
better understanding of the different lessons. There are various rooms and places inside the university that could help in
enriching not only the students’ minds but also enhancing their skills.
The
material for teaching is use 3 the books. There are text book, work book,
and homework book. Teacher and students have samebook. Other learning
sources is computer, wifi & projector that has one every classes.
Materials/Equipment
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Description
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Playground
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There is a playground on the first floor for pre-school
and kindergarten students in which they go there during their milk break
(morning) and snack break (afternoon). There is also a playground
beside the school wherein students go there after school hours while waiting
for their parents.
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Exercise
and Sports Equipment
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At Nakhon Si Thammarat, you can see places having so
many exercising equipment. And on the first floor, exercising equipment for
students are found. They use it during their PE class or during their break
time.
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Reading
Center/Library
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There is a huge room filled with books and other reading
materials in the school. The students often go there to read and study.
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Art
Room
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Art Room can be found on the third floor of the Satit
Demonstration School. Several artworks made by the different students from
the past up to the present were displayed there. During their art class and
club time, students go there and make different artworks.
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Science
and Math Rooms
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In the uppermost part of the building, the science room can be found.
It is where the students in the Science Club go. There are various lab
equipment and instructional materials displayed there to use by the students.
Sometimes, they watch sci-fi movies.
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LCD
Projectors and Speakers
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These LCD projectors are installed in every classrooms of the school both
English Program and the Mini Program. They are used during their class time
and when the students wanted to stay inside the room during snack and lunch
break.
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Charts
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Charts of shapes, alphabets and different reading materials are posted
in the walls of each classroom. This is to help the students learn better by
seeing it everyday. This is a big help because it makes them remember the
terms we
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Models
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Models like the human anatomy and
skeletal system used during club hours and science time were also available
in the school.
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5. Measurement
and evaluation system
Satit
Demonstration School uses formative, summative and reflective assessment. For
formative assessment, the teachers usually give it in the middle of the lesson
or after the lesson is done. The teacher gives handouts for the students to
answer or sometimes the teacher will ask the students to bring out their
crayons or coloring pencils or solve a puzzle, or do an experiment. In
summative assessment, the teacher gives the usual pen and paper exam. It takes
sixty (60) minutes for each exam. Also, the teachers also allow the students to
have reflection about themselves. They ask them about what they feel about the
lesson, or do the teacher needs to explain it better.
For Measurement system, the school
always gives the students a test for the evaluation in each topic, mid semester
and final semester. The score will be process for student’s final score in a
report in a semester.
6. Curriculum
The curriculum is to provide children
with basic knowledge and skills in general. The 6-year primary school
curriculum comprises five learning areas, namely: Basic Skills, comprising Thai language
and mathematics.
2.
Life Experiences, focusing on the
process of solving social and daily-life problems. Social studies and science
are the main components of this subject area.
3.
Character Development, dealing with
learning activities designed to develop desirable attitudes, values, behavior,
and habits which form a child’s character.
4.
Work-Oriented Experience, dealing with
practical skills and experiences for career preparation.
5.
Special Experience, dealing with
learning areas of special interest to children. Most schools, however, offer
English as a special experience subject.
Based on the 1999 Education Act, the
primary education will be merged to be one level under the term ”basic education”
comprising 12 years of education. The new basic education curriculum, which is
currently under the development process along the line with the Education Act,
will comprise eight subject areas, namely:
– hygienic and physical education
– visual arts, music and classical
drama
– social studies, religion and culture
– Thai language
– Mathematics
– science and technology
– work and occupational development
-international languages.
7. Teaching
plan
In making
my teaching plan, I used the institutional layout of lesson plan of the school.
The plan includes activity or description of the lesson. And it contains
review of the
past lesson, target vocabulary, discussion, observation,
activity, cooler and homework.
The whole of the lesson plan has five (5) parts
namely:
1.
Lesson Learning Outcome – it contains the different
set of learning outcomes that the students should show at the end of the
lesson.
2.
Content – it contains the kind of book, the unit of
the topic and the page whether it is from a textbook or a workbook.
3. Activity/Lesson Description – it contains the
things that need to be done throughout the discussion. The lesson plan of Satit
Demonstration School is already programmed in which you can choose what
activities you will give to the students (example: reading, singing, phonics,
observation, experiment, and video, PowerPoint, presentation, recognition,
coloring, painting and many more)
4.
Lesson Testing – this is where you can choose what
you are planning to test on the skills of the student. Because it is also
programmed, you can choose from: speaking skills, drawing skills, listening
skills, reading skills, comprehension skills, vocabulary skills, pronunciation
skills, critical thinking skills, phonetic skills, spelling skills, presentation
skills and many more.
5.
Lesson Evaluation – it contains what abilities does
the teacher is planning to achieve from the students.
6.
Lesson Criteria – it contains the percentage of how
many students understood, comprehended, participated, pronounced the words
correctly and wrote the right words in the whole discussion. It depends on the
teacher if how many percentage he or she will put on the lesson plan.
I teach
science in three classes. Namely in EP 1, EP5, and EP6. I use the direct
learning method. First at the beginning of learning I made a rule for them, and
told them all to be ready to learn. Then I explained the learning material and
they were also actively involved in it using various interesting learning
media. At the end of the lesson I always give an evaluation in the form of a
worksheet to them as a form of knowing the extent of their understanding of the
subject matter.
8. Others
Aside from above, I also observed that
students do not just learn inside the four corners of the classroom. Some
teachers let the students outside to have a class or study. In that way,
students tend to discover things beyond the classroom.
Source:
PART II
B. Pedagogical Contents
1. Teaching
Methods
After
observing the school for one day in Satit School, teaching methods in that
school is very simple. First, the teacher enter the class room and say greeting
to the students, and all students reply with greetings too. Then, the Teacher
check the students attendance and asks about student’s task and collect it.
After that, the teacher starts to explain the material or topic for that day.
All students in the class have three books (Text book, work book and home
workbook). At the last, teacher give home work to the students and end the
class. The teacher has so
many strategies. She introduces and gives various strategies for each meetings.
2. Materials
and Innovation
All teachers and all
students in satit school have the same three books (text book, work book and
homework book) and all that books include learning materials very complete. For
innovation in learning, they use power point presentation, video (related of
the topic) and playing games / puzzle (related of the topic) so the students
will be not boring when the class begin.
3. Sources
of Learning and Technology
All teachers in satit
school always use a technology in teaching like Laptop, LCD Projector, CD,
Audio (speaker), and etc.
4. Assessment
For
the assessment, the teacher has her own assessment such as quiz, games activities,
worksheets and classwork. Midterm and final exam also few of the assessment.
PART
III
C. Teaching
Plan
1. Curriculum
The
curriculum is to provide children with basic knowledge and skills in general.
The 6-year primary school curriculum comprises five learning areas, namely:
1. Basic
Skills, comprising Thai language and mathematics.
2. Life
Experiences, focusing on the process of solving social and daily-life problems.
Social studies and science are the main components of this subject area.
3. Character
Development, dealing with learning activities designed to develop desirable
attitudes, values, behavior, and habits which form a child’s character.
4. Work-Oriented
Experience, dealing with practical skills and experiences for career
preparation.
5. Special
Experience, dealing with learning areas of special interest to children. Most
schools, however, offer English as a special experience subject.
Based
on the 1999 Education Act, the primary education will be merged to be one level
under the term ”basic education” comprising 12 years of education. The new
basic education curriculum, which is currently under the development process
along the line with the Education Act, will comprise eight subject areas,
namely:
–
hygienic and physical education
–
visual arts, music and classical drama
–
social studies, religion and culture
–
Thai language
–
Mathematics
–
science and technology
–
work and occupational development
-international
languages.
2. Teaching
Plan
Since we going to be a teacher for this
program so of course we are required to make lesson plans. I submit my lesson
plan to my cooperating teacher and she always gives me appretiation and recommendations.
For the first week, I was late giving a lesson plan because it had not been
printed. So I gave a lesson plan the next morning before I started classes in
EP 6. So that morning I gave two lesson plans for EP 5 and lesson plans for EP
6. After my class ended, then my mentor gave a revision to the lesson plan that
I made. For the second week I still use the same lesson plan and there are no
more revisions from my mentor.
For the third and fourth weeks, before
the class starts I always give a lesson plan to the mentor, and no revision is
given by the mentor to my lesson plan. It seems like my mentor gave me the
freedom to plan learning as I wanted. I am very happy because there are no more
revisions.
PART IV
D. Teaching
Practice
1. Procedures of teaching
a.
Reading
& Reviewing the material before
teaching
b.
Doing
preparations which are Lesson plan, student’s worksheet, evaluation, and
instructional media.
c.
Teaching
steps:
ü Pre-teaching
ü Whilst- teaching
ü Post- teaching
ü Evaluating
2. Time
management & activity organization
a.
Adjusting
the teaching time with the time allocation in lesson plan.
b.
Organizing
group studies for students then give the tasks that have been planned in the
lesson plan.
3. Problem
solving
In some cases, the students could not
catch what the teacher has explained about. It was caused the different languages.
It can be resolve by choosing the common words when teaching process. Giving
some concretes and simplest example is another way to face it.
4. Class
management
I did class controlling by coming into each student’s group
discussion/work then gave more clear instruction about what should they have to
do for their worksheet.
PART V
E. Summary
and Suggestion
1.
Purposes
of Practicum
It’s
always great to learn so I’ve got so many things that I can apply in my
country, especially in learning strategies. How to become an intellectual
teacher. In this program taught me how to become a real teacher.
2.
Procedures
of Practicum
I like how the procedures of this
practicum. Firstly we will be introduced as the teacher at school, we did the
observation in the classes and it’s not always have to be the subject that we
will teach but we can observe the other classes so we can learn various
strategies and class management, we will be guided to make a better lesson
plan, how to emphasize and integrate the values, we had our teaching assistant
experiences and we started to teach when we have learned to the culture of
teaching and the difference between things in our country and this country.
We learned again even after we teach,
we learned from the pupils, from the cooperating teacher or even ourselves. We
can evaluate ourselves what things we still lack in doing something and we can
maintain what we already good in doing something.
3.
Outcomes
of Practicum
The
outcomes of participating in this program are that I become a better teacher.
Who is more professional in teaching. I can use it later when I enter the
workforce.
4.
The
Challenges of Practicum
Actually
this is the first time I taught using English. Communication is an important
thing that we must have. Because without good communication we will not be free
to act. But that makes me drain a little energy, because I have to using
English in communication and also when the learning process, and I have to
prepare how the correct tenses, grammar, and pronounciation. Actually this is a
little difficult and very challenging.
5.
Overall
Impression
Overall,
this program is very good. Because with this program, I can improve my English
skills. Also practice my ability to teach. With this program I also meet people
who inspire and also increase my friendship relationships more and more.
6.
Suggestions
My suggestion for the next batch is
that the costs will be funded as a whole, so that more can register. And the
quota is added to be able to produce smart and experienced teachers not only in
education, but also in culture, region, tolerance and respect for diversity,
etc. able to establish good cooperation between countries in Southeast Asia. My
hope is that the sea teacher program will continue going forward and should
always improve.
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