Receiving a lot of Gifts from People Counting the days, we only have today and tomorrow before finally starting to travel back to Philippines. We started our day late since today’s schedule was intended for finalizing our reports and documents signing. Bu Irmayani notified us ahead of time that she will pick us up from …
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Day 23: International Seminar
Application of our Indonesia’s Experience Unfortunately and fortunately, the last day of our practicum has arrived. It commenced in UNISDA and also culminating at where it all began. Today, we are to become resource speakers of an international seminar attended by students of UNISDA who are naturally from Indonesia and a few from Thailand. Today’s …
Day 19: Excursion to WBL
Spending Quality Time with with Bu Emy, Bu Titin, Student buddy and co-exchange student Jeremy The purposes of why we were sent here in Indonesia aren’t just all about knowing their education. The society and the country’s identity are also some of things that we have to get to know. Visiting one of the tourist …
Day 20: Open lecture and seminar at UNISDA
Drugs and Substance Abuse as Social Issues Counting 5 days before we fly back to Bali in preparation for our Manila (Philippines) flight, this day was well-spent as we were given the opportunity to listen to a seminar of Indonesia’s national police. Just how important this seminar is for the university students? We’ll take a …
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Day 21: Say your Farewell
See you Next Time! “I hate Goodbyes, maybe See you next time! is better.” I knew I have to wake up early today and I did. However, the preparation and dressing up seemed to be a difficult step to take. I wouldn’t want to start the day as I know things today are going to …
Day 18: Exploring Varied Teaching Methods
Asking for and Giving Directions and Simple Tenses and Perfect Tenses I went to the class early and set up my projector as visual aide for my new lesson with the banking class. It’s all about asking for and giving directions. After my review of the previous topic, Recount Text, I asked them how …
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Day 17: International Forum
Global Campaign against Inorganic Waste This day was a big day for my co-exchange student, Mr. Jeremy Zulueta for he will be representing the Philippines and the University of Mindanao in the first ever international forum held in UNISDA participated by 4 countries including ours. Along with Philippines are of course Indonesia, Thailand and Timor-Leste. …
Day 16: Going out of Comfort Zones
Taking New Tasks as Judges for English Speech Contest SMK NU 1 Karanggeneng was conducting a teachers’ meeting today and so I won’t be meeting with my students. Being free for the whole day, we were asked to be the judges of an English Speech Contest of SMP NU SIMO Karanggeneng. We were invited …
Day 15: Embracing Independence
Experiencing and Receiving Rejeki in Indonesia One of thing that made the teaching experience less painful for me was the full-pledged support from my cooperating teachers. Even just their presence, knowing that they are there for me in every step of the way gives me comfort in the class that I know I can make …
Day 14: Checking Progress
Assessments to Measure Learning Progress Assessment is an indispensable part of the teaching-learning process. This is where the teacher can measure how much the students have learned and whether or not his teaching style is effective. Today, I conducted a pen and paper assessment to my classes. They had to give me 15 sentences …
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