Guideline Questions for Writing Blog
Student name: Diana Sry Wulan Lantombu
Home University: Halu Oleo University
Receiving School: Anuban Lopburi School
Blog Address: pauduho15.blogspot.com
1. School: General Information and Academic Administration
School Name: Anuban Lopburi School
School Address: Narai Maharaj Road, The Late Chubsorn Subdistrict, Muang District Lopburi, Thailand 15000.
School’s Vision: The School aims to produce the students to acquire the academic achievements and morality to meet the world-class standard school on the basis of sufficiency economy.
Anuban Lopburi school was established on 1st November 1943 by Field Marshal P. Pibul Songkhram, the prime minister of Thailand at that time. He gave 35.000 THB for the school and together with the budget from the ministry of education which amounts to 10.000 THB for the school building. Unfortunately, the construction of the building was delayed due to the world war II. Later, the ministry of education received the land from the ministry of defence including the office building (Building 1) on the October 21st 1943. The building 1 was renovated and operated on the 1st November 1943. The first level that was taught in kindergarten 1 (K1) with 30 students only. Mrs Prachamporn Nonthapaoraya was the school director at that time.
In 1953, the school receive 1.000.000 THB from the prime minister to build two building, canteen, and teachers house. Next on 1955, the school separate from “Women’s school of Lopburi” and changed the name to be “Anuban Lopburi School”.
In 1980, Lopburi Kindergarten was transferred from the Department of General Education to the Office of the National Primary Education Commission (NESDB).
On October 1, 1984, Vichit Namphet was appointed to be the school director. Lopburi replaces Mrs Suchashep Siripho.
On February 16, 1991. Mrs Napaporn Chaisuprasert was appointed as the Director of the Nursery School Lopburi,
On November 1, 2001. Mr Raisadee Kham was appointed to the position of Director of Lopburi Kindergarten.
On January 14, 2010, Mr Apisak Prakobkul was appointed to the position of Director of Lopburi Kindergarten School.
On October 14, 2015, Mr Arit Tiaprasert was appointed to the position of Director of Lopburi Kindergarten School.
And now in 2018, Mr Suwit Jiemjit is a Director in Anuban Lopburi School.
Active day in Anuban Lopburi School is five days that are Monday through Friday. Every day the students here come together to the yard for the ceremony and praying. The ceremony started at 8:00 am.
The Anuban Lopburi School consists of Prathom 1 to Prathom 6. The Anuban Lopburi School divides into two programs that are a regular and international program. The school has many school buildings those are three regular program buildings, one international program building, two kindergarten buildings, one conference building, one hall building, and canteen. Regular buildings consist of the laboratory on the first floor and in the second and the third are classrooms. All classrooms have air conditioner, electrical, LCD, computer, speaker and loudspeaker equipment. Besides, the international building has a kindergarten area on the first floor and the second to the fifth floors are the teacher room and classrooms. International program classrooms have similar facilities like regular classrooms and teaching assistants in each class. The teaching assistants use to prepare and keep quiet the students in Thailand language because many foreign teachers who cannot speak the Thai language well. Especially in English Programs kindergarten, the students have to break in 3 times. First, at 09.40-09.50 for drink milk, the second time for lunch at 11.00-11.30, and the third is at 13.40-14.00 after a nap.
Anuban Lopburi School has the curriculum from the government but they make a modification on their own. The process of making a lesson plan by student teacher made through a manual system. Before entering the learning process, the teachers are required to make a lesson plan. The mentor to comment directly on the observation of teachers teaching practice SEA-Teacher Project during the learning process takes place. Below is a lesson plan that has been created by a student teacher SEA-Teacher Project during the teaching practice SEA-Teacher Project at the Anuban Lopburi School.
Anuban Lopburi School takes teaching materials based on curriculum 2003. In learning, teachers usually use whiteboards, marker, projector, computer, learning media needed, book sources, video or picture, etc.
According to the Curriculum 2003, this school uses standards- and competency-based grading system. The appropriate assessment methods that should be used with children age 3-5 years include observation, behaviour records, discussions, interviews, and analyzing of data collected from children in a methodical order to see progress, detect problems, barriers, and also coordinate, assist, promote, support, the planning and operation of realistic early childhood education goals to their full potential.
Early childhood is designed to develop the children from birth to 5 years of age. It is focussed on the basic skills of child rearing and aims to promote learning processes that respond to the natural environment and each individual child’s developmental needs to fulfil their potential. This takes place under the socio-cultural context of the children’s lives, with love, generosity, and understanding of others serving to build a quality foundation for their life and development into a complete human being. This is the ideal way for them to become both personally successful and a valuable asset to the community.
POWER POINT KEY POINTS
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GAME OPTIONS
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CRAFT IDEAS
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SUPPLIES NEEDED
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#1-30
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Slide for #1-30 and quiz with random numbers
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Slap the number. Seek and find. Bingo.
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N/A. Games are enough.
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Make bingo cards and find counters, etc.
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Time
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Hour hand v. minute hand. When we eat lunch, go to sleep, wake up, etc.
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Say the time and have class use their clocks to quiz them
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Making your own clocks.
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Plates, paper, and something to put them together. Maybe pipe cleaners?
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Bar graphs and counting/
comparison
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Make different bar graphs relating to different K3 interests. Bigger v. smaller
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Turn K3 students into a bar graph
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Make our own bar graphs re K3 stats we take in class
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Paper, pencil, coloured pencils
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Light v. heavy
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Who is heavier in K3? Might give them a complex though lol
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Bring in a scale? Compare and contrast different students and things in class
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Meals/Food
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Meal vocab, healthy and unhealthy foods, activity v. energy
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Show me an activity with less energy v. more energy
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Make them draw two plates with healthy and unhealthy food options
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N/a. Paper and coloured pencils
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Weather
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Air, wind, and weather vocab. How to tell if it’s going to rain. Cloudy days v. not cloudy. Water cycle. Light
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Every student get their own set of weather pictures and have to race to put them up. Table team game.
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Rain sticks
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Water bottle/toilet rolls. Rice. Decorations.
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Objects We Use
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Metal, Glass, Rubber, Wood, Plastic and what they're used for
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What’s in the box. Run for the material.
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Making art with all different kinds of art.
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Collect various items of all the materials for art making
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Sink & Float
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Heavy v. light,
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Float v. Sink basketball
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Sensory pools with sink and float items
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Various items to sink and float and 20 baht bins for water
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Jobs
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Different jobs and their locations. What those jobs do.
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Puzzle people, Place of work v. job matching
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The education school or the early childhood education development school should operation to organize the education curriculum and coordinate with the family, community, local area, and agency staff and educational institutions in both public and private sectors. Assign the curriculum destination to develop them in all aspects of physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development appropriate to their age, abilities, for each different individual to develop the children to be happy in learning, have necessary skills for living life, cultivate morality, ethics, and desirable values.
The early childhood curriculum education development school should respond to social and economic changes, adapting according to the natural needs and early childhood learning the education curriculum development school should organize the curriculum as follows.
2. Pedagogical Contents
In The Anuban Lopburi School for teaching methods, the teacher used more method; Storytelling Method, Conversing method, Q&A Method, and Demonstration Method. The teacher gives some explanation and gave the students some exercises to be done. The teacher has already prepared the lesson before like the materials and explain the lesson easily and clearly on the other day. The teacher used the variation method to attract student attention and manage the class in a fun way. Sources of learning are from the has and the curriculum is based on the school and governor.
3. Teaching Plan
Anuban Lopburi School uses the curriculum 2003 in kindergarten English program. However, the curriculum is modified by the school. The lesson plan and the power point presentation that has been created by the practice teacher during the teaching practice SEA-Teacher Project at the Anuban Lopburi School.
4. Observation on Teacher(s)
a. Planning for Teaching
The making of the lesson plan is manually made by the teacher. The teacher is required to make the lesson plan for one session.
b. Preparing Lesson and Materials
The teacher prepares the material on her own; for the topic, the teacher made a power point, PPS, and craft. Sometimes the teacher also makes her own instructional material for teaching the topic if it is necessary.
c. Teaching in Class
In completing a topic, teacher complete with 1 session.
d. Measurement and Evaluation
The teacher always uses the method of the questions and answers in the teaching of students. At the end of the lesson, the teacher is re-evaluating whether students are able to respond to a given lesson.
5. Teaching Practice
Teaching practice was done the same as the lesson plan. The teaching was divided into three parts. Consist of pre-teaching, while teaching, and closing. In the pre-teaching, I opened the class with a brain break and make a circle. I just taught one class K3/8. K3/8 consists of 29 students.
The class always started with an opening by a Thai teacher in the morning. After that, I open class after they have a break time. Then, the class can be started.
In this case, the topic about Animal and the point is Farm Animal. I started the class with a brain break and sing a song “make a circle” and I told them to introduce theirself one by one. After that, the students sat in their chair.
After explained the topic, I showed them power point about a farm animal. After that, I told them to mention the name of the animal name and how to spell the name of the animal. I chosen the student one by one to see if students can spell it or not. After that, I showed animal farm sound video and I told them to imitated the sound of a farm animal. And the end of teaching, students make a craft for the worksheet. After all of them finished it, I repeated the lesson to see if they know what is learned today and take a picture with students worksheet.
Students in K3/8 were really good at English, I'm so excited. They understood me and understood my explanation. They were really active in the class. All of them were paying attention to me, although sometimes they were so noisy. Overall, it was fun and quite easy to handle the K3//8. After conducted the teaching practice in the school, things that need to be improved are the ability to overcome unexpected things and voice controlling during the teaching-learning process. My mentor suggested me to always enjoy the class because of early childhood always like that.
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a. The Purposes
The purpose of the program is to prepare good future teachers by teaching in another country and taught how to be a real teacher. From this program, we can improve our English skill both in the teaching in the classroom or in communication with the other people. The practice can build the relationship and have a new family in the other country and also improve our knowledge about the culture of another country.
b. Procedures of Practicum
Orientation in the College, Observation in the class, Teaching Assistant, Practice Teaching, Evaluation, and Reflection.
There are three outcomes of the practicum. They are:
a) The practice teacher can improve the English proficiency;
b) The practice teacher has many experiences by teaching the students from another country and the culture of the country; and
c) The practice gains more knowledge regarding the teaching skill and pedagogy.
d. The challenges of practicum
It was a big challenge for me to teach and live in Thailand. I always the Indonesian language and in Thailand, I use the English Language always. This is my first time teaching in kindergarten in front of students and it's not in my country. I know if it sometimes difficult to control in the classroom, but it's very unusual to a KINDERGARTEN class and I really enjoyed every moment of it and I saw them when I teach.
e. Overall Impression
I am very grateful to be able to join this program. Thanks to the lecturer who has given me the opportunity to join the SEA-Teacher program, thank you to my parents who always give me support. From this program, I do not only get the teaching experience in front of students, but I also get new friends and family. For one month I can improve my English skills because it is a must for me if I want to communicate with others. I have a lot of unforgettable experience and hopefully, I can be a good teacher in the future.
As long as I was in Thailand, every day feels like a gift. There are always new things I encountered. I am so amazed at the circumstances that are there. So far I have only seen the Thai culture of drama and film, but this time every day I have to hear and live with the people of Thailand. I really enjoy every moment, neither happy nor sad. I'm very comfortable being in school with kids, spend as much time with them each made me familiar and comfortable. Even though sometimes we are constrained by the language, but it's not a problem for me. I really feel welcomed by the school that I teach, a teacher at Anuban Lopburi School full attention to us.
f. Suggestions for future improvement
1) For SEAMEO
The exchange pre-service teacher program is a good program to improve students’ English proficiency and to improve their way of teaching. The suggestion for the organization, it will be better if the other ASEAN countries can join the program.
2) For Tepsatri Rajabhat University
The treatment from Tepsatri Rajabhat University was good. It was really satisfying. From the president, lectures, and the student's college were really helpful. The program was also well organized. I hope for the next batch, they will get more interesting activities.
3) For School
From me, this is the good school started with the principal, teachers, staff of the school, the students and with friendly people. The suggestion for the school is to maintain the achievement of the students, the facilities and services from the school.
4) For Cooperating Teacher
My cooperating teacher is really caring and full of smile. She gave me motivation and always say "Diana don’t worry”. I am very proud and happy to see that she could be an outstanding teacher and very favoured sons. I cannot stop thanking create all the good they gave when I was in school. The suggestion for my cooperating teacher is always patient and keep smiling in front of the students and stay healthy.
