Third week ( Teaching Assistance and Teaching Practice)

It was a long week for me. Why? Because I had to do 2 big things in this week. The first was teaching assistance and the second was teaching practice. There were I a lot thing that I should prepare during this week such submmited my lessen plan, arranged student worksheet, and also prepared for my teaching practice.

- Teaching Assistance-

How did I do my teaching practice? at that time, Kai asked me “ do you wanna try to teach in section 2? They will learn about ionic bonding?”. I was shocked because I haven’t prepared yet. Then I said to Kai, “ Okay Kai, I’ll try”. I only had 2 hours to prepare the materials and everything I need for teaching.  The time flew so fast, my turn was coming.

At first time, I was nervous and afraid the students wouldn’t understand my explanation. After few minutes, I didn’t  feel those feeling and I enjoyed the class. I used video to illustrate the ionic bonding. After that I asked several guiding question to help the students found the new concepts. At the end, I asked some students to give their conclusion about the topic.

After the class finished, I asked Kai, “ did students understand my explanation?” and then she said, “ yes, they understood, but  when you asked some question they used thai language to answer because some students speak a little English. Okay, I was happy to hear that.

-Lesson Plan-

Generally, there are 10 parts in Thailand lessen plan. They are lesson plan tittle (general information about the lesson plan like teacher’s name, the class that use the lesson plan and how many periods), core concepts ( concepts which related to the topic), purpose ( the aims that to be achieved), contents or summary of the topic, learning steps, learning source ( such as books, videos, pictures), student task ( worksheet, home work ) and the last one is evaluation ( realated to purpose) 

- Teaching Practice-

Well, before teaching practice, I had to submite my lesson plan to ajarn Phalakorn and gave explanation about my lesson plan. In this teaching practice, I taught ‘reactions of elements in group’ using laboratory practice. Actually I prepared 3 activities for laboratory practice. Because of some materials were not available in the laboratory, So that I had to delete one activity from my lesson plan. After consultation was done, ajarn Phalakorn asked me to find and prepare the material that I need for this laboratory practice.

It was Thursday. In the morning I prepared the solutions that I need in lab practice. I was helped by Kai (I’m really happy to have you Kai as my friend). Before the class was begun, my mentor from faculty education came. Then we introduced each other because it was the first time we met. She is  Asst. Prof. Ramklao Artdej, but we can call her ajarn Phei. She asked how did I feel at that time. I was nervous and excited in the same time. lol

My class started at 10.25. Before I opened the class I gave my evaluation form to ajarn Phei. Firstly,  I introduced my self because I didn’t do it yet in the previous meetings. Before I gave them information about laboratory practice, I  asked the students to mentions the signs of chemical reaction, it would help the students during the lab practice.  After that  I distributed the students worksheet and explained what we gonna do in this meeting. Then students in group went to practice table and did laboratoty practice there.

Ajarn Phalakorn and ajarn Phai observed me also

When I was teaching, I found some student were busy with their gadget. They weren’t interested with the lesson. So, I asked them to help their friend to do the next laboratory practice.

After all groups finished, I asked a group to write their observation during the class. Then, I gave some questions related to the topic to lead them found the new concepts and knowledge. During discussion, I also shown pictures to help them answered my question. After all materials were discussied, I asked some students to give conclusion to assure they understood. 

Time’s up ! fortunately, I have finished to gave explanation and reached all my teaching aims for this topic. At the end, I collected all student worksheets and I would check them at dorm.

Then, ajarn Phei evaluated my teaching practice. She gave me some advises to improve my teaching skills. She said that I have to speak louder and during the experiment I should ask main questions to guide them found out the answer and created the explanation. (I Note it ajarn)    

Sightsee around Khon Kaen

After a long day, in this weekend we had excursion time. Mr jay informed us that on Saturday we had a trip around Khon Kaen and some students from education faculty would accompany us during the trip. There were 10 students from education faculty.  Around 8.45 they arrived in our dorm. After we met each other, they introduced them self one by one so did we. After that, we were devided into two group because there were 2 van. Each van had 5 students from education faculty. They were really fun. During the trip, we talked about culture, language, and so on. They taught us some thai words and we taught them our language too.

After one hour, we arrieved in silk museum. there we learned the way to make silk and some clothes from silk. We can buy some souvenir from made from silk. I just bought pashmina for my family in Indonesia ( yeey…)

In the night we had a farewell party with all education faculty family. We wore traditional custum and I wore batik. Around 6.30 we took shuttle bus and went to faculty of education.  when we arrieved there, all people have waited fo us. 

After that we went to the restaurant and had lunch there. Then we continue our trip to criket farm ( wow). When  we arrieved in cricket farm, the owner was waiting us. He already prepared fried cricket. My friend tried it, and I talked in my heart, “It was disgusting”. They pushed me to try it, and in fact the taste was really delicious ( I like it). The owner brought as around the farm. 

-Farewell Party-

In the night we had a farewell party with all education faculty family. We wore traditional custum and I wore batik. Around 6.30 we took shuttle bus and went to faculty of education.  when we arrieved there, all people have waited fo us. They already prepared barbeque stuffs and meat also. It’s time for dinner. We cooked and ate together. Because some of us are muslim, so we just ate chicken and beef but my other friend ate pork also. What about the taste? Of course it’s delicious.

During the dinner, they also showed us some performents like thai dance, som tam dance ( this dance was really funny). We, Indonesian and phillipines, also showed our own culture. My philipine friends showed their traditional dance. I and my friends from Indonesia, we mix several Indonesia song and we sang together.

In the end of the party, all students made a big circle and invited us to stand in the middle of the circle. And taraa, they sang a farewell song. It’s really nice to meet them.