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Jumat, 30 Maret 2018

SEA-Teacher Program


Hallo readers! Do you ever heard about SEA-TEACHER Program? if not let me tell you. so, SEA-Teacher program was initiated by SEAMEO (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization). An organization founded in 1965 that involved the country in Southeast Asia to promote cooperation in education, science and culture in the ASEAN countries.
 
SEA-Teacher Program or also commonly called as Pre-Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia, is a program that aims to provide an opportunity for students from universities in Southeast Asia to have a practicum experience teaching in schools in the other ASEAN countries. There are three SEAMEO member countries are working together on this program. Those country are Indonesia, Philippine, and Thailand. One of the major goals that work together to improve the quality of education in Southeast Asia and revitalize education teachers and continue to build and strengthen the capacity of teachers in the country of origin.

In the education sector in particular, SEAMEO intensify improve the quality of education in Southeast Asia, particularly the quality of teachers is the key to success in education. Therefore SEAMEO has started SEA-Teacher Project, one of which begins with this teacher exchanges between universities in Southeast Asia for practicum (teaching experience).
Through the exchange of teachers, prospective teachers will understand teaching practices in the Southeast Asian region, the curriculum relevant to their subjects, and gain greater insight into educational and cultural horizons, especially in Southeast Asia. 

Through SEA-Teacher Batch-5, expected to be a place for student teachers to become more skilled in learning and teaching, particularly on pedagogical competence. Furthermore, participants are also directed to trained in English language proficiency. It all can not be separated from the purpose to increase a wider understanding of the regional perspective and the outside world.
The extent of the development of science of course requires students to always have new knowledge to grow. In other words, a student would have to develop pedagogical, through exchange or internship, both nationally and internationally.

For more information, you can find in : seateacher.seameo.org/

My Days in Khon Kaen^^


Hallo Khon Kaen!
Well, January 19th was my first day in Khon Kaen. I have just arrived from Indonesia after a long flight, and when I went outside from the airport, I saw a familiar logo, oh hey! that was SEA-TEACHER logo. Actually the one who brought those logo is my coordinator from my host university (Khon Kaen University). His name is Mr Witthawat Patham but usually we called him Mr Jay. Then, Mr jay greeting me and pleased me to enter the van and soon we went to Khon Kaen University.


 In The way, we talk much, he said if I will live in Nursing Dormitory for this one month. After we arrived at Khon Kaen University, Soon he showed to me Nursing Dormitory. I am so happy and lucky because the dorm where I lived in has so many facilities include wifi, refill water, air conditioner, televition, refrigirator, and toilet inside the room and also the location is so strategies, its near with the school that I am going to teach. I totally really love my dorm because its so confort to me. Actually, I just spent my first day to stay at dorm because I was so tired to go outside at that time and my others friend from Philippine and Indonesia have not arrived yet. So I was the one that arrive first there.


Welcome to our second home guys!
At the second day, I waited all of my friend to come. Can not wait to meet all of them. Around 1 pm one by one arrived at dorm, I was so excited to meet them. exactly there are 4 students from Phillipines. They are Chan, Crizel, Divine, and Jerwin.  The other 4 Students from Indonesia are Sofi, Fatia ,Valen and me.


Exspecially my lovely roommate Sofi from UNSYAH, Aceh. Oh yaa then, Mr Jay said if he will introduce us with some students from indonesia or usually we called as PPI (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia) in khon kaen. so it would make us be easier to ask about our necessaries like finding restaurant for halal food, looking for places to take pray and others. and He also explain to us to prepare anything for our welcoming party at the next day. We are so happy to hear about that.


Welcoming Party yeayy :D
The Next day, Mr Jay asked to us to be ready at 5pm, Because the van will pick us up at lobby at that time. All of us already done with our traditional costume from each country. The van bring us to the cafe, and there we have dinner with the dean of education from Khon Kaen University.


The Dean is so humble and kind with us, She talked many things, and asked about how was our day since in khon kaen. I feel Honor to meet her. She served us a lot of thai foods and introduced it one by one to all of us. Thai food is so delicious, I love it so much!


We were so full at that time, untill we couldn’t eat anymore hahaha.. then after we finish eating, I told to my coordinator if I have something to give to the dean of education. I give a miniature of  ampera bridge, that’s icon of palembang. And here is the picture when I give it to the dean.
After we finished with our dinner, soon we back to dorm.


Walk Around Khon Kaen University
Today we have scedhule with our friend from PPI, His name is kak Han and kak Agung. We plan to walk around KKU. Because they said if they will teach us how to use the transportation in KKU. Exactly there are three ways that can we used to go around KKU, First is shuttle bus, Second songthaew (public transportation) and third ofo(free bike). Firstly, we choosed to use shutle bus.


Kak Han and Kak Agung taught us about the route of the bus, where we can find the bus stop, the different collor between the bus, and the application that could be used to know when will the bus arrive at our bus stop. We tried to around the university area. Then after we finnished it, Kak Han gave us challanges to be the guide how to back to dorm using that bus lol. And finally we can back safely hahaha. Then we tried using ofo, free bicycle provided by campus
 But before we use it, we have to instal the ofo application first. Because the user will be conected by the application to run the bike. We can find and use the bicycle anytime and anywhere we want. As long as it’s still inside the university. Last is songthaew. It’s the same with public transportation that are in Indonesia, we have to pay for songthaew it self. It’s around 9 baht. I suggest you better you choose shuttle bus if you just go around campus because it’s free. But shuttle bus can’t go outside. So if you want to go outside you need to use songthaew and it can be found near campus library. Well, it’ve been 2 pm. We plan to go to dorm again because we have accomplished our mission today hahaha. We took a lot of Pictures today :D




Then at the way to dorm we got a message from Mr Jay, He said if we will go to our demostration school this afternoon to meet with the school principle. So, We have to be ready for it. At 3.30 pm Mr Jay already waited us in lobby. He said 8 of us will be sperated into two school. First school is Mordindaeng School, and Second is Suksasart School. Both are Demonstration School of Khon Kaen University. But have a different location. I was placed in Mordindaeng Demonstration School with my friend Valen, Jerwin, Crizel, and Divine. We have been waiting by the school principle, and the other teachers. One of the teacher is the leader of mathematics subject. Her name is Teacher Boom. In Thailand they called their teacher as ajarn. So I called her ajarn Boom. She is so kind and care with me. I am so lucky to have her. Actually, We just a while there. Just for introducing each other and explain what level and major that would be taught the next. After that we back, and prepare for tomorrow morning.


Welcome to Mordindeang School
Every morning we have to be in school before 7.30 am. Because, in Thailand before the students started to study, everyday they will have a flag ceremony.

What a nice culture! So they might not came late. When ceremony have done, one of the teacher invited us to come infront of the podium to introducing our self with all of the students and the teacher. I felt ‘lil bit nervous at that time, because all of the eyes watched me there haha. And when my turn I tried to used thai as greeting and every students respond my greeting.


 I was so happy. Then I told them my name, my home university, what major that I will teach and others. After introduced one by one, I gave a token to the school principle, the same with what I have given to the university. That was a miniature of ampera bridge.
The ceremony done, each of us went to our own office, I was in mathematics office together with my friend Valen. Teacher Boom introduced us with our supervisor. My supervisor is Teacher Chaninthorn Boontem or usually we called as Ajarn Top. He teach at grade 7.
And for the first day I have not observed yet. I just follow him to the class and Teacher Top just introduced me to all of the students in the class (again). And Teacher Top also show to me which one is my buddy for this one month teaching in mordindaeng. My buddy’s name is Corn, He is so humble and warm with me. Nice to meet you corn :D





Class Observation
Based on the schedule given to me, from January 29th, 2018 to February 9th, 2018 I will have observations and teaching assistants. Then, This day was my first day doing class observation. I have a lot of class that must be observed by me. from Class M1/1 (grade 7) up to Class 3/3 (grade 9). For my first day observation, it was full time for me. but at the next day, teacher top have given me the schedule allready. Here is my schedule ;


For one period teaching it took time along 50 minutes for each subject. I was free at Wednesday and Saturday. I just have consultation time about my lesson plan with teacher top at Wednesday and finishing it only.
Oh Well, when I was doing class observation I got alot of things to learned, and much experiences that really different from the teaching system in Indonesia. The differencies itself could be seen by curriculum in the school, academic support system, teaching system, material with other learning source, and even the measurment & evaluation system.
For the curriculum, generally in Thailand they implement the basic education of Curriculum 2001. But different with mathematics subject in mordindaeng school, special for its subject they use Japan curriculum. So, All the things, like the curriculum, book, and even the teaching system they learend from japan. Mostly in here for the teaching system they focused on students. Where its called as  students center learning. So, the teacher it self only as facilitator for the students. The Students will find the concept of material by discovery learning.
Based on the observations that I have done, the teaching method used by the teacher is Open-Ended Approach. The Open-Ended Approach provides students with “experience in finding something new in the process”(Shimada 1997). Firstly they would observing, finding Idea, exploring the problem then disscusing it together to find the right concept together with their teacher. in my previous observations, the teacher was very able to organize the class and make the class become active, the students are also very serious in following the lesson.
The Open-Ended Approach provides free, responsive, and supportive learning environment because there are many different correct solutions, so that each student has opportunities to get own unique answers. Therefore, students are curious about other solutions, and they can compare with and discuss about their solutions each other. As students are very active, it brings a lot of interesting conversation to the classroom
The material and other learning source itself is based on book that have been translated from japan to thailand book. In indonesia usually students will have three books. That was for note book, exercise book and also homework book. But in thailand the book that they used was the textbook only. So in text book itself have been completed by exercises, student activity sheets, and explaination about each capther. So the student only need to bring it and if there any assignment they will collect those book to their teacher. and also there is no homework given to the students.
And how’s the way of teacher to do the measurement and evaluation to the students? So everyday after teaching, teacher will collect all of  student’s book and check it one by one. What will they check? The exercise that have done by students. if they completed it corectly the will give a high score. And how about the evaluation system? So after each capther finished to be taught, the teacher will give a test for the students to evaluate their abillity  about those material. So many different thing that I learned. It could be a new insight for me to teach at the future.


Open Class [Class Orientation]
Teacher Top told me if there will be an open class on Saturday, January 27th. Every students from the other university may follow it. He asked me to come, because it would be an orientation teaching for me. There, we can learn on how to do a good teaching, by learning the way to manage the class, effective teaching method, and the way to make a fun learning for the students. I really interested to hear that information. I also asked Valen to join the class together.
Then on Saturday we came ontime, and we have to register our self first before enter the room. There are so many students that came from another universities outside khon kaen university. After we registed our self we entered the room and we took place infront of the speaker, so we could understand and hearing well. At first period, it for general science for primiry school. The class was really fun beacause the teacher could make the students be active throught activity that he made. The teacher also brought some teaching media from real life that related to the activity and the lesson. He said if the learning method that he used was open-ended learning approach. It was a new knowladge for me.


Then the next period after general science was mathematics class for lower secondary school. The one who taught the class was teacher jinny. I never imagine if mathematics class could be as interesting as this class. I really love study atmosphare along that teaching perod. There are so much things that I should improve for my self after I watched the way to teach just now. I got lot of insight by follow today’s orientation. Thanks teachers for invited us today. Andd yeayyy! We also got a certificate from this program :)((even we cann't read it)) :)



Valen and I were so happy at that time. This is our first certificate that we got! 

 
 Sunday in Central Plaza
All of us free on Sunday, we didn’t have something to do. My phillipines friend sugested us to go outside. But, we didn’t know yet where will we go. And finally Divine and Crizel said what if we go to central plaza? That was a good idea, because we never go there before. We asked to our thai friend, how was the way to go to central plaza, he said if we have to use a van to go there. So we tried to look for a van stop. We paid 15 baht from kku to central plaza. It needed 10 minutes from kku to cental plaza. And after we arrived there we sperated with our phillipines friend, they said there were something that they want to searched. So if we done, at 4 pm we will meet again near the enter gate. We agreed with it. 
We also went up stair to the 5th floor, we explored each floor together with Valen, Sofi, and Fatia. We saw many things, took a pictures, and bought Ice cream. But suddenly fatia said if she was hungry. Hmmm it’s a bit difficult for us to find halal food in here. So the first thing that we did was tried to find food court and we found a mall maps. Then we saw there was KFC on the thrid floor. Directly we went to look for where was the location of KFC. Anddd gotchaaa! We found kfc ^^ we bought some foods and eat there. But the taste between KFC in indonesia was so different. In Thailand the taste of sauce was so spicy and sour. Much different with indonesia. But we loved it! After we finnished, we saw jerwin and chan have just ordered some food also. Then we waited for them outside instead of finishing to drink our pepsi. After they done with their food, we walked together. We tried to looking for Divine and Crizel. Because the time was almost 5.30 pm but Divine and Crizel have not finnished with their shopping yet so they sait it’s okay for us to back first. 
So six of us back first, and soon we go to the van station. We were so happy and tired also. After arrived at dorm we took a rest soon. Because we have to prepare and woke up early tomorrow. We have a class to be observed. So See youu at school tomorrow guys!


What an Active Students!
Teacher top have prepared some cubes and pyramid as teaching media for learning today. Before learn, He explained to the students about what materia and the goals of study today. 
Then, teacher top give some problem related to the student activity sheet which have to be solved by students using the media that have been brought. All the students seem enthusiast to solve it. 

They explored and discussed it together with their own team. Every group have many variaty answer and sloving. 
 Throught this activity, I also can observed student’s creativity and cooperation each other with their team. All of the group were so active to find the solution. 
I was really happy to see  their spirit and enthusiasm to learn a new things. 

I hope I will teach this class when I’m doing my practical teaching later.


Exploring KKU^^
On Friday I only have one class to observed. So after observing class teacher top allowed me and Valen to back home first, because there was nothing to do then. When we were waiting for shuttle bus I have idea. I told to valen, what if we explore KKU using Shuttle bus? Valen so agreed with me. the first place that we were planing to go was.......


After we finished, Valen said if she was hungry, so we decided to eat at complex’s food court. Then, we ate vegetarian food. Because there wasn’t any halal food there. When we ordered some drinks I saw Tem. Tem is our thai friend. We asked her where she wanna go? She said if she need to make her homework at library. We thought if we never gone to library before. Se we join tem to go to library after eating. We cann’t enter library if we have not had the library card. So tem helped us to be the library member. We just needed to show our passport, fillout some bio data form and gave our student id card. No longer dan 5 minutes, I got my library card. Yeayyy!
KKU Library totally is so complet. There are 6 floor, and each floor have reading places with full facilities for 24 hours. Omggg I’m in love with this library! We choosed to make our lesson plan there. Because the place was really comfortable for us to focus on finishing it. 
After 3 hours, we have accomplished our lesson plan then valen asked me to back to dormitory. I promised if I have a free time I will go to this library again.

 
Violin Class with Ajarn Ohm
At 12 pm we have break time, I and Valen decided to eat our lunch near the park because the weather today was really good. When we already in park we heard a sound from beautiful violin played by someone. and I catched the one who played it. He was Ajarn Ohm, Art teacher in this school. Ajarn ohm is so multitalented teacher. He can play so many song instruments, and also can sing beautifully. At that time he wa teaching and showed his students to play violin. He made my day be beautiful with hearing him playing violin. Do you wanna see also? Here I have the video :D



Student’s Test
As Like I have explained before, if the teacher already taught all material in one chapter, they will give a test or exam to evaluate the result of student’s learning. So today because teacher top were going to bangkok, so teacher hoi replaced him to give the test for the others students. Along an hours observing the students to answer the question. No one cheating. Even when sometimes I found several of them cann’t answer it, but they wouldn’t cheat. I appreciated them so much. They answer it honestly. 
An hour later, they submitted it all. Teacher hoi checked it one by one and almost all of them understand well about the lesson, most of them also have a good score. I really amaze with my students.


Teaching assistance, isn’t it sound cool?
It’ve been the third week of me being in here. There are a lot of things that I have done. And in this week, based on my schedule , I would do teaching assistance along this period. Keep fighting for my self! :) Okay, let’s focuss on teaching assistance. Teacher top have just called me, He told to me the material that will be taught along this week. So I have to be mastered and ready on it. He lend me some books related to the material that he would teach. Every night I discuss about the material that I would teach with Valen. We learn about it together. 
This morning we have a class at M1/2. This chapter is ((still)) about pyramid. 
After teacher top finnished explaining about the lesson, he asked to us for handle the class and let us help to explain for some students that still do not understand. 
We tried to do our best, and luckilyall of the class could understand well with our explaination. 
50 minutes was not a long period. 

No longer after I explained, the bell was ranging. All the students are going to the canteen. Fighting there will be 4 days left for doing teaching assistance. Its was so fun, I could interact directly to my students, and I like it!


Making Lesson Plan
There were so many things that I should prepare during this one week. Like... submit my lesson plan and presentated it, make learning media, arrange student activity sheet, and also prepare for my teaching assistance. I have to finish it one by one. For lesson plan it almost finish. This Wednesday I will show it to teacher top. And Thursday, we have doing presentation to explain about our lesson plan. From the lesson plan, there are several important points that we need to prepare, That was:
1. Title of the Lesson
2. The main point of this practice
3. Materials and learning objectives
4. Procedure of teaching
In the lesson plan no need to describe about learning methods and learning media. However, based on observations, I use open ended approach. We just need to make it as like the format given by the teacher. Here is the example of lesson plan that I have made based on the format that I got from my supervisor  : klik  and also student's activity sheet that I have made : download


Agriculture Festival
Kak han chated us in our group message, He offered us to go to agriculture festival, nearby our dorm. We said ‘yes ofcourse we want’ and on the night we go there by walk. This festival was held by faculty of agriculture  once a year. There were so much fruits, vegetables, plants, foods, flowers and others. we decided to buy fruit. 


Because the price was really cheap for a good quality of food in here. We buy oranges, stawberry, grape, pomegranate and also juice. then we ate together at dorm.



Teacher Ceremony
After breaktime, at 1 pm. I have been ready to teach at class. But I have waited for 10 minutes, no ones in the class. Then, My teacher came and said if there was no class anymore because all of the teacher and students were preparing for teacher ceremony in this afternoon. I never heard before if there was a teacher ceremony. My teacher explained if those ceremony will be there once a year, and it for appreciating  all the teacher and student (also) which have good achievement in academic. 

For the example if the student won some competitions and make the name of school be well known, they will be given an appreciation by the school. I thought if such of this ceremony were really important and worth it. we also have to held it as a way to appreciate our teachers and students. So, it could make them be better ones.
Some students also showed some performances like dancing, singing and theater.


Lesson Plan Presentation

After done with several time doing consultation with my supervisor, Teacher Top. I was ready to do persentation about my lesson plan this day. I have submitted my students activity sheet, lesson plan, assignment sheet and some exercise question that I have made. I just have 10 minute to explain my lesson plan. I explained every point in my lesson plan and instructional media that I would use. The commentator is not just my supervisor. But there were also teacher cini, teacher sup, teacher hoi, teacher corn and teacher tongleng. After I presentated it, I asked for comment and advice from them toward my lesson plan. I got a possitive comment from all of my teacher. They said if lesson plan that I have made was really good. Thankyou anyway teacher. I just have one advice from my supervisor that was, I shouldn’t give homework or assignment to the students anymore because it was enough they answer the question that avalible in there text book. In thailand they did’t give and have any homework. I have just known about it. so I said I will not give them assignment. I received his advice and will correct it again later.



I was really happy after doing persentation. What I need to do the next was preparing for my practical teaching only. Fightingg!


10o , What a Cold Day!
When I woke up this morning, I felt so lazy to take a bath. Because today was cooler than yesterday. Instead I have turn off the air conditioner. I didn’t know what was going wrong at that time, But it felt really cold! Whether my body is not really fit? But still, I tried to force my self to take a bath because today I have a class at 8.30 am. And After I prepared and ready to go, I and Valen waited the shuttle bus near the bus stop infront of nursing dormitory. What we have seen was.... almost all of the people using coat, jacket, and shawl. We didn’t know why Khon Kaen suddenly can be cold as like this. We checked the weather today using weather apps and it was around 100-150. I never felt as this cool before. This coolness made me crazy and cann’t focuss all the day hahahaa.. the temperature decrease significantly from 360 on last day to 100.
And you know what? When I arrived at school all of students and teacher also used coat and jacket. I was the only one that didn’t brought my jacket. I almost frozen inside hahaha lol. But after those experience I never left my jacket anymore. Before went to school I will check the weather first just to make sure if I wore the right costum ><


Hidden Castle Behind The School
I was in canteen, having my breakfast with valen. We sat inside the eating room because outside at park was to cold. From inside, we looked at the windows and saw a white building such of castle. We never go there before. The building is so beautiful, it still located inside mordindaeng school even the distance was a bit far behind. Because today we didn’t have class at the morning, I asked Valen to go there together. I was really curious to know what building was that? So after we have done to eat our breakfast we walked there. And tadaaaa... the white castle that we imagained before be likee....



In turn out, it was the research buiding of Khon Kaen University. The building is so beautiful. I love being in here, we took several pictures before we back to class.


Jubilee Night Market
Tonight was Saturday night, we have a plan to go outside with all of our Phillipines-Indonesian friends. Kak han said if this night will there a night market near jubilee convention hall. The night market will be twice a month. There were so much things that was sale in night market with really cheap price like dress, shoes, watches, foods, bags and others. exactly we want to looking for some souvenir to buy to our indonesia friend then. But we weren’t find it yet. Kak han said if night market didn’t sale any souvenir. So we just bought some outers because Khon Kaen become cooler everyday. There ware two quality thing that sale in jubilee night market. That were a new ones and secondhand. Secondhand were much cheaper if you were lucky you will find a good shoes or dress with the price that so cheap around 30 baht – 65 baht. Wasn’t it really cheap? You can get many thing hahaha I just got 2 outer my friend fatia bought bag, and after that we ate ice cream together then just back to dorm because we use shuttle bus this night so we have to back before 9 pm or you will missing the bus wkwkw. 


Practical Teaching
Today was my first day doing practical teaching. I didn’t know why I didn’t feel any nervous. It wasn’t normal for me haha. Because usually when I have persentation I will feel nervous, but not for today. Maybe its because I have prepared well for it. and I allready practice for it before the real teaching, so I just feel like usual. Before my demo teaching started. I wait for my supervisor (teacher top) and my mentor (Ms Nisakorn Boonsena) to come. Because the one that will evaluate me was them.
My class start at 10.20, at period fourth. Cann’t wait to be my turn. And when the bell was ranging soon I went to the class and brought anything that I need for teaching like laptop, student activity sheet,  boardmarker, and other. I only have 50 minutes to become a teacher. Teacher Top and My Mentor, Miss Nisakorn are already there and holding the evaluation form. I opened the learning process by greeting the students, bringing everything flowing in fear and worrying slowly away. Now, I became a teacher.
 I was so happy to teach my class. Before teaching, I gave them two rules. First is no noise, and second is no hand phone. If I catched them playing phone and talking each other. I will let them explain replacing me infront of the class and slove several question in white board. They agree and deal with my rules.
Before I explained the lesson, I give several examples related to our material today. Then I asked them to guess what topic that we will learn today based on the example that I already showed. Then I asked them one by one about the definition of ratio itself based from what they have known. All of the students were active and could understand me well. It proved with their’s worksheet which can be answered perfectly when I checked it.
When I was teaching I found one of my students sleeping. So I asked to her about what I have taught just now and let her to explain with their friend. Then after that I choosed the student rendomly to solve the problem that I wrote in the white board. Firstly, They are still afraid to speak, because it is very difficult for them to present their work in English, but I do not want to make them reluctant, I ask them to convey their ideas in Thailand and one of their friend who could speak in english translated what they said to me. And finally they did it. all of them, can solve it clearly and corectly. They also explained their answer to their friend.
Time’s up! 50 minutes was to fast for me. but fortunetly I have finished to teach all the material, and I reached my objective and teaching goals.  Class end with conclusions conveyed by one of the students. Exceptional Class, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to become a teacher. Thank you for your time. “Good afternoon and see you again, thanks for everything” is the last sentence I told them. Hopefully we can meet again one day.


Evaluation Class
After break time, I asked to my supervisor how was my teaching, and is there any comment for it? He just smile and said if I have done my best and good job. I just have one comment of using the white board. He said if I should use white board consistanly (which part that I used to write the formula and which part that for exercise. Don’t mix it. it would make the students confused) he only gave advice for me about that. And he suggested me to use open ended approach when I teaching later. Because there are so many advantages when we teach using  the Open-ended approaching. Such as Students participate more actively in lessons and express their Ideas more frequently, Students have more opportunities to make comprehensive use of their mathematical knowledge and skills, Every student can respond to the problem in some significant ways of his / her own, The lesson can provide students with a reasoning experience, and much more. I was so  relived today because have accoplished it.  


Class Reflection
While in reflection class, Teacher Top asked me about what challenges I found while I was teaching? and I answered “language”, how to make the students  understand even though many of them do not speak English. Then, Teacher Top  agreed with my answer and apologized for it. I smiled and said “me and they also learn, they learn english and math and i learn to be able to solve all challenges that i find during the learning process because that is my duty as a teacher. Thank you Teacher Top for teach me so much about being a teacher, has given your time just to guide me, I can not give anything to you I can only pray that God bless you always Still a teacher who can inspire your students Just as you inspire me to become a teacher. this is my last conversation with Teacher Top.


Exursion Time!
Friday february 9th, Mr Jay inform to us if will there an exursion on Saturday. And all of us will be picked up by the students from education faculty at 8.45 am. We were so excited to read that information. On Saturday, we have been ready at lobby on 8.30 am. 10 minutes after that the van have just arrived. We got new buddies here! There were 10 students from education faculty that will accompany us along our exurcion today, they introduced them self one by one, and so did with us. It was really difficult at that time to remember all of their name. Because their’s name was hard to spell and pronounce. But fortunetly they have nick name that really simple. So it made us easier.
There were two van, we were sperated into two groups. Indonesian group and Phillipines groups. After that, they pleased us one bye one to enter the van. We have 5 thai buddies in our van. Their’s name is Charl, Mo, Bank, May, and Kay. They were really kind and fun. They taught us about thai language and thai culture and we taught them Indonesian language also hahaha. Well,It have been one hour but the van have not arrived yet. We asked to them where will we go? And how long it would take time? They said they also don’t know where we will go, lol. But 5 minutes then we arrived. We were going to the place of making silk. 
So there, we learned the way to make silk, and some traditional clothes from silk it self. We saw the step and process to make it. it need really long process. In that place we also bought some souvenir from silk. My friends bought a lot of things  I just  bought pashmina/shawl. The price was not so expensive each 100 baht only.
11.30 it was the time for us to go to the next destination. Our van stop in front of restaurant. We have our lunch there. We ate sea food. After we full, we bought some thai dessert in the restaurant to brought to dorm. Done for our lunch, we continue our trip to the cricket farm. When we arrive the owner of the cricket farm welcoming us warmly. 
He already prepared fried cricket. He asked us to tried it. my friends tried it and said if the taste was delicious. They suggest me to try it. but I felt disgusting to see the cricket. Omggg I can’t. But they still trying to force me because all of them have eatten it. So... hardly I tried it. andd.... the taste be likee..... DELICIOUS. Wow how could it be? Crispy, Crunchy, Salty, Delicious. I actually like the taste, but it was disgusting to saw the shape of cricket it self. So I just ate a ‘lil bit.


Khon Kaen Light Park

One of a popular point of destination that you have to visit at night is khon kaen light park. It is located beside central plaza. We planed to go there together with may and nor, Our new friends that we have just known from religion club at last day. They said if they will wait us at 7 pm. We asked our phillipines friends to join us go there, but they cann’t because there was something to do. So we just go there by four of us. We use songtheaw from nursing dorm to complex area, then we continue our trip with van. 10 minutes later we arrived. We crossed the street and saw may and nor  from farness. We were so happy because that time was our second times to meet each other before we back to indonesia. May and Nor were really nice to us. They took a lot of picture for us, and we also selfie together. 



The park was really beautiful with full of lamp to cover the trees. Much people come to the park, just for took a picture or took a relax for a while.


Architecture Festival
Same with agriculture festival, each year faculty of architecture also will held architecture festival. This night our thai friend, Peng and Check invited us to visit architecture festival together. The theme of festival this year is about the space. Everything that be the ornament there was space. I loved the decoration so much! It was so beautiful. They sold anything about handmade. There were some miniature, figure, necklace, key chain, and others. we interested with cartoon sketch. So we want to be made by them cartoon sketch of our face. We only need to pay 5 baht for each sketch. It was so cute, this is the picture of our’s sketch.


in agriculture festival they also sold some food. Divine and Sofi bought oreo ice cream. The taste was really sweet. I and Crizel bought some key chain and herbarium necklace from dried flowers. Its was cutee! I will give it to my little sister. Then, there were also mini consert to entertain the people that came. Because the time already 8.49 so we decided to back soon. Because we were afraid if there were no any busses anymore.


Tontan Market
We were trying to find a night market, first night we went to night market street, a small food service walking way, the second we passed by tontann, attracted by the lighting, so we went in, the right choice for that trip. There you can find everything about khonkaen. Tontan market is the largest night market in khon kaen. Good market in khon kaen and open everyday. This market is located at central of the city. We go there at night using taxi. There are several outdoors restaurants and always show different musical performances. I thought if street food there is amazing. You can try an array of dishes freshly made to order for a portion of you would spend in a restaurant. There are also all kinds of stands that sell cloth and accessories. Plus there are live performances while you dine. Beautiful place! A must visit in khon kaen. A huge variety of food in the food court, and a huge variety of shops to look around, selling everything from clothes to make-up and toys to stationary. The market also has bars and restaurants, and a stage with live music, and a beer hall, where you can watch live football, or watch a band play live music. Many people come here to take selfies, as it's beautiful, especially at night, with everything lit up. A great atmosphere, in a cool, trendy market. It was nice to walk around a market without being too hassled by the vendors. We were the only foreigners i saw; the things for sale were for a good price although a lot of what was there was the same as you'll find in similar markets around thailand. Always love visiting ton tann. The food always seems nice and fresh and the vibe is great. Really a must visit if you are in khon kaen.


Farewell Party :D
After we arrived at dorm, finnished our exursion. Our buddies said ‘see you this night guy!’. This night? What are we going to do this night, anyway? They said if will there farewell party before we back. And this night also there were culturul night, where we will show our culture from each country. So we must wear our traditional custom. And they will wait us at education faculty on 6 pm. We prepared for it during this one hour.
Then we went to education faculty using shuttle bus. When we arrived there all of people have waited for us. Sorry we came late. There, they have prepared barbeque stuff. So we have to make a group with our partner but it may not with the ones that we have known before. It should be with students from different country. My partner is sobri. He is thai students. He can speak malay fluently, so its  made me easier to comunicate each other. My other friend ate pork. But because sobri is also muslim, so he has brought for us meat from chicken and beef. We cocked and ate barbeque togather. 
The taste is so delicious. He gave me somtam and sea food souce. 
I like thai food so much. Because the taste is spicy and sour, match with my tounge hahaha.
Then there were performance from thai students. They showed to us thai dance. There were welcoming dance and som tam dance. All of them were so beautiful with lotus flower that they used to dance. After they dance they give those lotus flower to us. I really loved it. they also introduced to us about thailand traditional games. And we join to play the game together with them. it was fun to play thailand games. We won several times when we played it. not just them which showed to us thai culture. We, indonesian and phillipines also show our culture. Our phillipines friend presant their phillipino dance. 
I and my friend agree to sing indonesia song. So we mix and mashup 10 song from sabang to merauke and sing it together.
In the end of the party, all of students made a big circle and they invite us to stend up inside the circle. They sang a farewell song for us. I felt in touched at that time. Here was the video




It was Hard to Say Good Bye
As always. The worst part that I really hate the most was ‘saying good bye’. Acctually I will back to indonesia on february 17th. So before we back, I and Valen said good bye each other with all of the teachers and also students there. 

Personally, I do thankful to my supervisor (teacher top) for help me and care with me during this one month I did a practical teaching in here. He said good luck to me and my future, learn more. It was so difficult for me to leave them. I hope I can be in here one month more. 

We took a picture before we back, we also around the school to remember every single moment that we have done in here. We went to library to meet teacher ohm and teacher nirwan. But we couldn’t find them. we only met with the librarian. She was sad when she knew we will back tomorrow. She took a picture with us also.
At February 17th I had been ready to back, Mr Jay will pick me and valen up to go to airport at 10 am, because our flight will be today at 12.30 pm. But before that my phillipine friend came to my room and say good bye for me. I really wanna cry at that time. I was sad to leave them. It seems like yesterday we said hi to each other and now we’re saying goodbyes. Divine and Fatia will back tomorrow. Divine said if ‘you guys left me all alone here and I’m so sad watching each of you leaving this dormitory’. I really sorry to let you alone there divine. We also feel so hard to walk and leave each others :( felling lucky to be part of you. Thans for being such of family and home for me along this one month! I happy to meet you all. Thank you for being part of my wonderfull experience of mine. And thanks also for letting me enter to your lives. I will never forget all of our memorable experiences here in Khon Kaen University. Hopefully, may god bless us to meet again in another time or places (maybe in your country or my country) I do love you all!


Conclution
One month in here have taught me so many things about life, friendship, and experience especially in teaching. “The goal of the program is to enable teachers to become skilled in learning and teaching, especially about pedagogical competencies, and participants can also develop their English skills and also aim to convey a broader understanding of regional and world views”. And all these goals are achieved. I learned how to be a teacher, even more than that, I learned to overcome every challenge I found in the learing and teaching process. I have just relized if being a teacher is not just to teach but it is more about how to educate the students. It might be easy if we just come to teach, but on how to educate and form our student to become a people with a good character is not easy, how to create a human that could humanized the other people is the challenge.
Experience is the best teacher, but being a teacher could  be the best experience for me.

 

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