My Second Week

-Class Observation-

In this second week, I had to observe my co-teacher class. There were 5 class, mathayom 4 section 1 up to section 3, mathayom 6/2, mathayom 6/3. For each class, there were two meetings in a week and It consisted 4 periods. One period took time about 50 minutes.

For mathayom 4, the students were taught by Kai (student teacher of my co-teacher) and mathayom 6 was taught by ajarn Phalakorn. Accually, I would teach in mathayom 4 only but for observation class I observed all my co-teacher class.  

-Mathayom 6- 

Mathayom 6 or grade 12 is the highest grade in suksasart and this was their last term. In this term, they only had laboratory class. They applied their knowledge in this lab class. The students were divided into 3 or 4 group. One group had to prepare one topic and it was different from the other groups. During the laboratory practice, the student also write their observation in work sheet that distributed by group who had that topic. 

After laboratory practice, they presented their observation and concluded the topic. 

-Mathayom 4-

Different with mathayom 6, the students in mathayom 4 they studied in the class like usual and sometime they had laboratory class. It depended on the topic. in order to make the students active, Kai as the teacher in mathayom 4 used several methods. Sometime, she gave explanation about the topic that they ware going to learn and then she gave a work sheet related to the topic. 

In other time she asked the students to find the core concepts and make explanation about the concepts by them self, after that they had to present and explain in front of the class what are the topic talk about.

Generally, the schools in Thailand implement “the basic education core curriculum 2008” that released by ministry of education (core curriculum). In the other hand, they also apply local curriculum and school curriculum. But both have to support the core curriculum.  Mostly in teaching process students act as the center of learning ( student center learning) and teacher only as facilitator. So, the students will find out the core concept by them self. First teacher will explaine the topic generally using videos, pictures or another media. After that, teacher will guide the student to find the concepts by asking guiding question, discussing in a small group. At the end teacher together with student conclude the right concepts.

After that, to measure and evaluate the students, every meeting teacher will collect all the assignment that has been made by the students included exercises, worksheets, quiz, and homework. At the end of each topic, student will have a test (post test) to measure their ability on that topic. finally after all topic finish, the students will have final exam at the end of the term. How to get the final score? Teacher will combine all the score included assignment’s scores, post test’s scores, final exam’s scores. But assignment’s score has a larger portion than the other score.