ESSAY: Report for Practicum (3rd Essay)

Report for Practicum

About Siek Chhun Leang

      On 10^th Saturday, August 2013, Mr. Siek Chhun Leang conducted a teaching practicum in the class at 1:10-1:35 PM because he had to complete the school’s requirement especially for teaching practicum class. He is one of the students majoring in English Literature for Education in Teaching in Room 406 of Phnom Penh International University. It was his second round of teaching performance. He was in charge of teaching listening skill at that time after his first round in the first semester in this academic year. He had an important topic—“Her Success” to teach his students.  Normally, Chhun Leang is a friendly and easy-going classmate. However, he then was a teacher. It was very wonderful since he was able to provide his students with a great introduction to make the class full of enjoy as he conducted his teaching with good understanding for the students.           

       For the first concerning, he wrote date on the left-top corner of the whiteboard. Then he turned face back to ask the students happily about their health and lunch because after lunch the class started again. To add up his lesson, he had a game to ensure his students’ understanding before listening by calling some students to write some vocabulary he gave them on the whiteboard. Then some students read those words with attached meanings. He corrected if any word was incorrect. He praised whoever could provide a suitable definition to any specific word. After that, he got them to listen to the recorder for the first time. Then when the speaker stopped act out the speech, he asked them whether they could catch up the words or not. They responded with uncertain words because most of them did not concentrate on the listening. He told them not to worry about it. Then he went on his teaching process.      

    For the second concerning, he delivered each student printed papers to be their handouts for listening. Suddenly, they made noises in the class. He also took the time to explain them quickly and made them silent to follow up what he was explaining at that moment. They kept quiet and listened to him then. He furthered his objective in lesson to get them understood by letting them fill the gaps. He asked them to answer by guessing what words fitting with the gaps in the paper provided. He wanted some volunteers to answer. They were reluctant then. So, he called the names to answer by completing the missing words. He walked around and controlled the whole class.                

     For the third concerning, he got the students to listen to the speaker. Whilst they were concentrating on listening and filling the following gaps, being smiling, he was walking around with a paper and a marker in his both hands. After listening, he immediately wanted to choose a student to read the text because he supposed that all of them could fill the gaps with the correct answers. But then no one stood up. So, he called Mr. Hen Sodet to read. Sodet was happy to read. Whilst reading he ordered his student—Sodet to read fast, whereas he was also writing the answers on the whiteboard. Sodet sped up his reading, most of other students laughed at him. The class was in a mild situation then. Unfortunately, the bell rang to tell that it was time to end the lesson. He then quickly finished his teaching by telling his students to complete the missing gaps in number 6—Complete the questions about Oprah at home.                                                                                                             

     Indeed, Mr. Siek Chhun Leang had a particular problem since he could not manage his teaching time well as he did not finish it in time. However, he is a funny teacher even though his pronunciation is not clear. The students could catch up the meaning of his teaching. He is self-confident with what he has, according what he acted out. He will be a nice teacher if he tries to change his weak points because the students liked studying with him at that time. He could make a bad situation relievable especially when the students were distracted somehow. He must update his teaching process and techniques if he really wants to be good teacher in the future. Thus, his teaching is not good enough yet. 

Written by Mr. Muong Rithea, PPIU Student