This part includes my teaching practice and how was my teaching going on, what strategies did I use when teach the students and how did I solve the problem occurred during my teaching.
Procedures of Teaching
Before the teaching practice, I made the lesson plan. The lesson plan is based on the topic given by the teacher adviser and I adjusted the activities with the characteristics of the students. I did a warm-up activity before start the lesson. For my first week of teaching, I prepared games as warm up activities, they are guess the word game and catch the ball game. The students were excited when I played the game and they became more engage with the lesson. After warm up activity, I started to elicit the students’ knowledge and then after that I gave them the explanation about the topic. The next step of my teaching was doing the task. I had prepared the worksheet and share it to the students to be done. While the students did the task, I walked around and asked their understanding about the task, whether they understand it or not. If they did not understand, I explain them briefly back then.
Time Management & Organizing Activities
As I have explained above, I started the lesson with warm up activity that is aimed to help the students to be engaged with the lesson. I arranged the time in my lesson for 50 minutes. For the presentation stage, I set it around 20 minutes that is filled with warm up activity and the explanation of the topic. Therefore, the next stage is practice stage and in this stage, I gave the students worksheet and they were asked to do the assignment I gave. After finished the practice stage, I asked the students to do another task that is for production stage. In this stage, they need to be able to do the task that was not like the practice one, but it was more difficult than before. Production stage is the last stage of my teaching. Even if sometimes the task had not finished yet, I asked the students to do it at home or do it on the next meeting.
Classroom Management
Most of the teaching practice I had was in the meeting room where the chairs and the tables can be moved around. So that it also affected my classroom management because I can control the students and watch them when they listen to my explanation and when they do the task. Fortunately, the students there were not really noisy and they took a good care of their attitudes. I was nervous at my first teaching practice because I was afraid that the students would not pay attention to me but luckily, they were very nice and give their respect to me. Managing the class was not really difficult because I think whether it is in Thailand or Indonesia, most of the students will be quiet if they are taught by new teacher. And for Mengrai students, I think they were excited to had the lesson^^.
However, sometimes some of the students did not understand what I said and it was a bit difficult for me to set them into the activity. One time, when I was teaching in Matthayom 4, I told them if I say Hai they need to answer with Hello and vice versa. I did this in order to make the students keep silent while I explain them about the topic of the lesson.
Problem Solving
There are some difficulties I faced during my teaching practice but I solved it as well. The first difficulty I faced was when I was asked by my teacher adviser to teach the students from three different grades with the same topic. I was afraid that the students would not meet their understanding through the topic so that I decided to modified the lesson plan. I made one presentation slides but for the lower grade, I deleted some points that I thought was too difficult for them. Then, I did not use all of the activities in Matthayom 4 in Matthayom 1 and 2. However, there once when I taught Matthayom 1 (the topic was describing people) and some students still did not know “to be” and “possessive pronoun”. I was confused but then I tried to explain them briefly about what should they put in the sentence. If that kind of things happened, I tried to explain and correct their wrong answer. Luckily, kru Took and kru Am as the teacher helped me when the students really did not understand about a thing. They will explain to the students in Thai so that the students will understand.
Another thing I concerned was about the reading skill. One day, I was asked by kru Took to help the special students to practice reading and it was one of difficult things because the students were not really good at reading. At first, I read the paragraph sentence by sentence and then they repeat it after me. After that, I tried to read it one paragraph but the students were not able to read the whole paragraph so I thought that I just need to do it like the first time. Moreover, I realized that special students indeed need a special treatment and I need to be more patient with them.
By the way, here are some of my pictures during my teaching in Matthayom 1, 2, and 4. Overall, my teaching practice went well and I enjoyed teach the students in Mengrai School^^.
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