Teaching Practice

 Teaching Practice 

    1. Procedures of Teaching

    The teaching process follows the teaching plan that I have planned. I usually start by greeting the students and playing a dance on the internet or a video that I have downloaded and shown on TV. When I teach, I use ppt and take materials from YouTube and also the students' textbooks so that students can follow the lesson well and ensure that students understand the content of the lesson and can solve the problems. Then, I will provide sample problems and evaluation through review, sometimes I ask random students to do the problems on the board, and after that explain to their friends how to do the problems, so that students can work in real terms.  

    2. Time Management and Organizing Activities

  I organized the time and arranged the activities according to the teaching plan and lesson content. One week's time allocation for each subject is 1 hour, and I have 2 classes, 4/1 and 4/2, so I have 8 hours to teach maths in the third week at Anuban Lampang School. During the observation period, I asked the students at break time if they liked maths and they replied that maths was a subject they disliked, difficult and boring. So, I tried to make learning maths fun and not boring for the students by forming groups, and playing maths games, although they became noisier than usual, but I could see that they were very excited.

    3. Problem Solving

    In the process of learning and teaching, problems will always exist because they are unavoidable, and I did not have any serious problems while teaching at Anuban Lampang School. The problems I faced during my internship were noisy students and language differences, I had to raise my voice to get their attention to focus on learning. However, if I spoke, they would also speak in Thai and I could not understand what they were saying, and vice versa. However, these students were very kind, respectful, and seeing them play and smile made me excited to teach them the next day.  For me those two things are the big problems I face and it becomes difficult to approach students who are lacking in English. Then, to overcome this, I usually ask students who are fluent in English to explain to their friends what I am saying using Thai.   

    4. Classroom Management

    For me it is not easy to manage the class, I teach in grade 4 where the students are in the adolescent development phase and it is natural that they are very noisy. Sometimes they don't listen to what I am explaining and usually my mentor teacher will reprimand them, but I try to understand my students. Usually I will ask students to randomly come forward to the front of the class to work on problems on the board, play maths games through the web on my laptop, and ask the student who comes forward to ask his friends what the correct answer is, whether the answer he chose is correct. That way, students can work in a real way and they have more feelings towards me. 

Students work on problems on the board

Play math through matfuns web