My First Experience in Teaching Practice in the Philippines

Estancia Central Elementary School

        Since the typhoon Yolanda disaster 5 years ago that hit Estancia to destroy all buildings near the sea. ECES also suffered severe damage. After 5 years have passed the entire ECES building has been gradually renovated. The teaching system at ECES uses electronic and traditional media, there still uses a whiteboard with chalk and uses postcard/manila paper to support the learning process, and there are also some classes that have used projectors / LCDs.

      The material taught will be delivered in accordance with the learning curriculum in the Philippines, as in general teachers must prepare lesson plans and materials that are injured before conducting teaching and learning activities. Because there are still a lot of using traditional media so that demands that teachers be more active and creative. When the teaching and learning activities take place, the teacher will make all students more active looking for and doing anything according to the instructions given. In order to give rise to critical thinking in each student.

6th-grade observation with Ms. Syrene M. Alejandro

          Conduct an evaluation every week to find out the level of understanding of each student. Provide them with an assessment that enables the teacher to know what weaknesses are still there. What lessons have not been mastered enough by every student? After knowing what has not been understood by each student, the teacher must repeat the material until all students have understood it. There is material that can be completed in a day, some can be completed 4-6 days, it is in accordance with the level of difficulty of the material itself. The teacher must be able to measure it by making the teaching plan in the lesson plan correctly.

Learn to make Lesson Plans

       Before doing teaching practices I asked questions and learned how to teach well, I did that during observation. Always ask teacher critics at ECES Ms. Syrene M. Alejandro. Ms. Syrene always helps me if I'm in trouble teaching. He helped me how to make lesson plans correctly according to the curriculum that is here and how to teach well so that every student understood every material provided.

Teaching Practice in Artemis and Aphrodite Classes

 

On January 21 this was my first experience in teaching, teaching in another country with a different education system and curriculum. Everything I have learned on campus about making lesson plans, teaching methods, classroom management, and others I will practice here is definitely a difference in terms of material and practice.

At the end of each lesson, I will repeat what I have said before, giving them an assessment. Give 3-5 questions and give gifts of sweets, chocolates, pens or pencils to every student who can answer them correctly. I did that in order to motivate them to continue to learn and quickly understand every material given.

After practicing teaching for 20 hours I had to take part in a final demo that would be evaluated by Dr. Sunny Gabinete as coordinator and Ms. Syrene M. Alejandro as a teacher critic. To find out the shortcomings that I have to correct again and what learning methods I have to do in order to be able to teach better in the future.

Love Letters, Candy, Flowers from Artemis and Aphrodite classes

By joining this program many people get new friends, new families, new experiences, and new knowledge. This program from SEAMEO can help many teacher students to hone their skills by getting different experiences in teaching so they can create the best teachers in the future. Hopefully, this program will remain and always make improvements to be able to help create a great generation in the world, especially in Southeast Asia.