Practicum Briefing
Last Friday I had my practicum briefing together with the other education students. All of us who attended the briefing will be doing our practical next January. We discussed about the schools that we wanted to do our practical in..both primary and secondary schools. We'll only be doing an observation for 1 week in the primary school and practical for 3 months (10 weeks) in the secondary school. We were asked to choose which school we wanted to go to. So here's the list of schools available for practical.- SMK Wira Penrissen
- SMK St Mary
- SMK Jalan Arang
- SMK Bandar Kuching No. 2
- SMK Matang
- SMK Green Road
- SMK Pending
- SMK Tabuan Jaya
- SMK Batu Lintang
- SMK DPHA Ghapor Stampin
- SMK Sungai Tapang
- SMK Demak Laut
- SMK St Thomas
- SMK St Joseph
- SMK Kolej Abdillah
- SMK Sungai Maong
- SMK Lake
- SMK Bau
I was looking through the list, looking for SMK St Teresa. St Teresa was my first choice but to my despair, St Teresa was not in the list!! damn! The other three premier schools were in but why not St Teresa? sigh! So I had no choice but to choose other school instead. I was kinda disappointed. I didn't know which school to choose. I need to choose a school that is near and more convenient for me to go to and back from school. I need to make up my mind fast but I'm still not sure of which school to choose. So I called my dad to ask for some advice. He said its up to me. Why not St Mary? Since its an all-girls school and it'll be easier for me to handle them. Or why not St Joe? Since my brother is still studying there and we can go to and back from school together. My brother will be in Form 4 next year so there might be a possibility that I'll be teaching him IF and only IF the school put me in morning session..otherwise, I might end up teaching my cousin who'll be in Form 2 next year. So I finally chose St Joe instead. I had a choice of going to SMK Pending too since my aunt is teaching there but I don't feel like going there at all..haha! When my coordinator asked who wants to teach in St Thom, quite a number of students raised their hands. Only 5 can go to the 1 school and there were 6 hands being raised up so the coordinator asked them to discuss among themselves who will be going to St Thom. Next, the coordinator asked who wants to teach in St Mary and quite a few raised their hands. Not many tho..less than 5 if i'm not mistaken and when she asked who wants to teach in St Joe, I'm the only one who raised my hand. Why am I the only one? Nobody seemed to want to teach in St Joe..thats kinda weird. Is St Joe not a good school at all? Lots of people fighting for St Thom and no one was interested in St Joe..hrmm. Anyway, I don't bother..who cares right? haha! So that's for secondary school. Now, we had to choose the primary school that we want to do our observation in. This time, there's no list of schools so we were allowed to choose any school we want. I chose SRB St Teresa. My former school..which I think it'll be easier for me as a lot of my former teachers are still there..hehe! But all these are not confirmed yet. The coordinator will need to send our names to the education department first and everything will be confirmed in our next practicum meeting. After discussing these two items, we were allowed to leave since there's nothing else to discuss about. Until now I'm still not sure if I've made the right choice to teach in St Joe..hrmm! Hopefully I won't regret making that choice. Anyway, I'll just leave everything to God. He knows what's best for me. I think I'll stop here for now. Will update my blog again soon. Tata!
posted by Joanne Tan @ 10:09 AM
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