6. Summary & Suggestions

 Summary & Suggestions

Purpose of Practicum

      The SEA Teacher Project 2023 or Pre-Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia is a project that aims to provide opportunities for student teachers from universities in Southeast Asia to gain teaching experience (practicum) in schools in other countries in Southeast Asia. The objectives of the project are:

• To help student teachers develop their teaching and pedagogical skills.
• To encourage student teachers to prepare themselves for the future.
• To help student teachers to develop themselves as future teachers to become professional educators in the future. Enrich and broaden their horizons in the teaching profession.
• Train English language skills, so that student teachers can gain a broader view of education at the regional and world levels.
• Introducing student teachers to diverse teaching and learning situations and opportunities, and the value of flexibility.

Practicum Procedure

     The SEA teacher Project batch 9 was conducted for 1 month from September 16, 2023 to October 14, 2023 when I returned to Indonesia.  The practicum process was divided into 4 stages. The first stage is observation, at this stage I will observe the state of the school, facilities, school provisions, and observe how to teach in class and also consult with the cooperating teacher. 

     Second teaching practice, at this stage after 1 week of observation I will start teaching in class as a form of adaptation and implementing the knowledge I got during observation. 

    Third teaching practice and reflection, in this week I am still teaching and familiarizing myself with classroom management and also reflecting on what parts need to be improved and at the same time getting advice and input from the cooperating teacher. 

    The last stage is the final demonstration (evaluation), creating a blog and closing ceremony. At this stage when I have taught in class, I will conduct a teaching evaluation which is observed by the accompanying teacher and teachers from the UIC campus. After completion, I can create a blog and finally the closing ceremony held by the UIC campus.

Results of Practicum

The results of this practicum program that I get are:

    Gaining a lot of knowledge, especially in my field, namely physical education, and how to teach well, as well as the latest media that can be used. Through this program, it can open my insight into various international education systems. Gave me the opportunity to improve my English Knowing and being able to apply good Filipino culture. In a way, I became more mature because I was able to experience living alone in another country. I traveled alone from Indonesia to Davao and I had the best experience.  I became more confident in using English and my English skills improved a lot because every time I spoke, the students were fascinated by the way I pronounced some words so it made me more precise in pronunciation and I felt like a native English speaker. I became more experienced, I was able to teach students from other countries and know more about their education and culture which means I have something that teachers my age don't have. 

Practicum Challenges

     The challenge when joining this program is the language. Since in Davao English is the second language, the students here are very good at speaking English, although my English is not that good, sometimes there are some things that make the students not understand what I am saying. However, after teaching a few times, I was finally able to overcome this.

Overall Impression

    I gained a lot of knowledge about education in the Philippines, not only about education, I also gained experience about the culture in Davo City, Philippines. Participating in this activity really improved my English skills. I am very proud to be part of the SEA-Teacher project batch 9 2023 participants.

Suggestions For Future Improvement 

Suggestions for future improvement, I suggest for the next batch of SEA-Teachers are:

• Sending universities and receiving schools should collaborate more with each other.
• I suggest that sending universities make sure to send more. 
• My suggestion for the next batch is to increase the participant quota.
• My suggestion for SEA-Teachers is to add new majors that can join the practicum participants and also collaborate with each country's consultants such as Indonesia's KJRI (consultant general of the Republic of Indonesia).