PSU Philippine Exchange Experience

November 22, 2018

Panggasisnan University (PSU) Exchange Program Through SEATeacher

PART 1

SCHOOL: GENERAL INFORMATION

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

A. School Profile

1. Location

The school is located at zone VI, Poblacion, Bayambang, Pangasinan, telephone number: 592-2704, 592-2207, website: http://www.psubc.edu.ph/cms/; The school is under the College of Teacher Education; serves as training ground for future HS Teachersin Pangasinan State University.

2. History and Background

The PSU Bayambang Campus had a very humble beginning. It started as the Bayambang Normal School in 1922. It offered then the secondary normal course which prepared much needed teachers for the country. The school closed in 1935 due to inadequate funds but re-opened in 1948 under a new name – the Pangasinan Normal School (PNS), which offered the two – year teacher education program. It was one among the first normal schools in the Philippines. It was in 1952 that the college offered the four – year degree in teacher education for elementary teachers by virtue of RA No. 975. In 1953, the school with elementary schools in the District of Bautista and the Bayambang National High School were merged to become the Philippine UNESCO Community Training Center. It operated as a school division then. Republic Act No. 5705 converted the school into a chartered institution – the then Central Luzon Teachers College on June 1969.

The Pangasinan State University Bayambang Campus is also among the constituent campuses of the University to actively house a Laboratory High School (a school under the College of Teacher Education; serves as training ground for future HS Teachers) which dates its history by its then – name, Central Luzon Teachers College. The Pangasinan State University Laboratory High School offers secondary education in Science Curriculum. The School also offered Basic Education Curriculum until March 2010. Batch 2010 – 2011 Seniors was the first batch of the school in years to graduate from an all – science curriculum enabled sectioning. It also was the first batch to graduate from an all – single section per year system which was decided upon dating back on 2007. The batch makes history in being the first batch to hold graduation rites in the first ever Integrated Closing Exercises which houses both the LHS and KD – ELS (Kindergarten Department – Elementary Laboratory School) in one Closing Ceremony. The Ceremony was successful, uniting the two laboratory schools of the Campus; KD – ELS and LHS.

3. Vision

To become an ASEAN Premier State University in 2020

4. Missions

The Pangasinan State University, through instruction, research, extension, ang production, commits to develop highly principled, morally upright, innovative ang globally compotent individuals capable of meeting the needs of industry, public service and civil society.

5. Guilding Philisophy

The Pangasinan State University’s leadership adheres to the Filipino educational philosophy that education is geared towards bette citizenship and livehood and the United Nations’s declarated that EDUCATION IS FOR ALL giving ACCESS to quality Education.

B. Academic Support System

Pangasinan State University Integrated School- HS Department has 7 class, 1 for grade VII, 2 for grade VIII, 2 for grade IX and 2 for grade X. They have library, faculty room and there are instructional media like a projector, laptops, and printers for helping teachers to give stimulation to the students.

C. Teaching System

This school use the materials accordance with core curiculum of K 12. Every subject has two books. First book for teacher as teacher’s guide and second book for students. But, the teacher can use other book or resources for teaching. And I think it’s looks like in my country. In Indonesia, we also use two books for each themes. The book for teacher and student. Sometimes teacher used picture, video, and create their own materials for teaching.

D. Materials and Other Learning Sources

E. Curriculum

A. Teaching Plan

Format of lesson plan in Phillippines it’s really different with Indonesia. In Phillippines, they are more specific and like conversation between teachers activity and students activity. And lesson plan arrangement if from Objectives, Subject Matter, Procedure, Evaluation, and Assignment.

On objectives there are purpose of the lesson of today, example students be able to differentiate feeling, naming and action words. Also the teacher must include cognitive, afective, and psychomotor. Subject matter there are topic, reference, and material. In procedure there are preleminary, preparation, lesson proper, generalization, and application.

PART II

PEDAGOGICAL CONTENTS

A. Teaching Methods

The methods used in secondary school is inquiry-based. The teacher always asks questions to the students related to the lesson. The teacher repeats the question until the students understand the question. Also, the teacher always say “very good” or “excellent” whenever their students answer the questions correctly. In that way, they can make their students feel good. From the questions or activities, the students can guess what will be the topic of their lesson.

B. Learning Materials and Innovation

The materials based on curriculum and book. Teacher can add other materials like pictures, chart, video, story telling, etc. For innovation, the teacher using qeustions and cooperative learning.

C. Sources of Learning and Technology

For sources of learning, the teachers at PSU – Integrated High School Department use K-12 curriculum, and the other sources are based on books and internet. With the use of learning media such as projector, laptops and DLP, students acquired better learning.

D. Authentic Assessment

The foundation of authentic assessment revolves around evaluating a students’ ability to apply what they have learned in the lesson. Authentic assessment measure students' understanding and measure teachers’ learning success. Authentic assessment in the classroom based on my observation are performance assessment, questions-answers, self-assessment, worksheet, observing assessment.

PART III

TEACHING PLAN

A. Curriculum

On the teaching plan here in the Philippines is quite different. They don’t have this core standard and are instantly broken down into specific learning objectives. And it's all based on their curriculum guide. Their teaching plan provides detailed learning resources, varied learning activities, and learning assessments. I have observed that the procedure or flow of the lesson are student-centered, while their assessments are performance based which assessed by rubrics or mechanical ratings.

B. Teaching Plans

PART IV

OBSERVATION ON TEACHER

A. Planning For Teaching

The teacher before teaching in the class, the teacher is arrange the lesson plan. What are the activities in the class as long as teacing learning process begin.

B. Preparing Lessons and Materials

Teachers always preparing lesson before their teaching, like preparing lesson plan, preparing materials, visual aids, sometime teacher also prepare a prize as motivation. So, when teacher teaching step by step will be complete and arrangable. Teacher use media learning like chart, pictures, manila paper, video and that’s all is helpfull in learning.

C. Teaching in Class

In preparation, teacher will ask pupils to sing or give them motivation, and after that the teacher will ask about the previous lesson to check their understanding. Quick review of past topics before starting the main activities is a must.

In presentation, teacher will give information regarding to the topic trough motivation activity.

In the development of the lesson, the teacher will give the others question and pictures again, and teacher will ask the pupils for examples about the lesson.

In generalization,the teacher will ask the students, “what is the importance of the lesson?” and the students will answer the questions based on their understanding.

In application, sometimes the teacher uses cooperative method. Teachers will divide the class and group them to work together or teachers will provide interesting activities to find out how far students understand the lesson. In evaluation step, teacher will give pupils worksheet for evaluation.

D. Measurement and Evaluation

Teacher will give pupils evaluation like worksheet, or activities in their book. Teacher seldom give a homework to pupils.

PART V

TEACHING PRACTICE

A. Procedures of Teaching

In the beginning, the teacher will review the lesson to makae sure pupils understanding their lesson on last meeting. After that, I will give some motivation to pupils, like give them game or exercises interesting to make pupils curiously. After that, teacher will do question-answering until pupils understand and they can guess topic of lesson. The pupils will not immediately be able to guess the topic of learning, so teacher should be repeat the questions, but the questions it should be from the others objects. Then the teacher will ask to pupils to give some others example, if the students can give others example it indicates that they have begun to understand. In the learning the teacher will give a pray them “very good” accourding to the situation. In the end of lesson, I give a worksheet as an evaluation.

B. Time Management and Organizing Activities

My supervisors give me some tips how to control a class as follow:

1. If there are pupils who are not paying attention teacher can give them warning like teacher can counting for 3 until 1, and when teacher say 1 pupils shoul be quiet.

2. When the teacher is writing on the board, teachers should not turn their backs on pupils, so that teachers can write while paying attention to pupils.

3. Write on the board should be fast.

While teaching, the teacher also give answer and question to the students, so that students will not pay attention to the other objects.

C. Problem Solving

First time the teacher teaching in the class, the teacher get a lot off comment, whether good or not too good point. The point that not so good is like the teacher should be more carefull to give example that teachers’ make by her self. The teacher should be make visual aids more visible, write systematic from left to right, give chance to the student to copy material in the board, use eraser properly. So on the next teaching I try to improve my mistake on the lesson. The other comment was so nice is like the teacher have clear voice, conffident, easy to make student pay attention or focus, student participate is good, mastery of the material and etc. The good point will be always tried to stable.

D. Classroom Management

The teacher don’t have a big problem to classroom management. The only problem is sometimes the pupils talk tagalog, and the teacher don’t understand half of the sentences if they asking event they also use body language. To solve the problem i ask the student who mastery in english or i ask practice teacher to tranlate it. Sometimes, I have hard time doing classroom management, example when in the evening the pupils feel so tired some of them so hard to make them listening our lesson. Good point that my supervisor instructor said that I always come the the pupils when they are doing some activity and my supervisor instructor told me, if you write on the board don’t forget to see your pupils, because sometime if you didn’t watch them something happen to your pupils.

PART VI

SUMMARY AND SUGGESTION

A. Purposes of Practicum

1. Purposes of practicum are we can learn how to be a good teacher.

2. I can improve my teaching skill

B. Procedures of Practicum

Before I start the practicum a have to know what a subject and topic of my lesson. After that I make a lesson plan. Then, my lesson plan will be checked by my supervising instructor. They will give some correction on my lesson pan, and they give me some advice to make my lesson become good. Next, I revise the lesson plan to be the correct one. After that, I make my instructional material for my lesson, because in high school rarely use projector. I must make the instructional material by my self and using my creativity. If I finished make my instructional material. Then I will teaching in the class, after I finished my the teaching, my supervisor instructor will give me some evaluation and give me some suggestion. The reason why my supervisor instructor give me a evaluation is for make me to be a good teacher.

C. Outcomes of Practicum

When I teaching in the class my lesson doing great. Thera are no big problem, and I teach based on the lesson plan that I made before.

D. Overall Impression

The conclusion of my teaching practice is I enjoyed the teaching practicum. My lesson was same as my plans. I hope they are the pupils will understand what I teach to them. And I hope I can take a good thing from this practicum.

E. Suggestions for Future Improvement

1. Hold the picture properly and print it in concrete material;

2. Use words of praise if the pupils answered your questions;

3. Give more board work activities to maximize allot time of teaching;

Below is the problem and the recommendation of the problem as long as the program begin.

Problems:

1. The lack of time to do all activities

2. Hard to find a good internet connection to complete the assignments

3. The school schedules changed suddenly without informed before.

4. Our place is far from everything. Such as the market, photocopy place, bank and etc.

5. The school facilities are not complete.

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