DIPLOMA OF TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

(TESL): SEMESTER 06 2018/2019

BIT21906: TEACHING PRACTICUM

SCHOOL PRACTICUM: SK PADANG AIR

ASSIGNMENT: DESCRIPTIVE REPORT

PREPARED FOR:
DR. NURSHAFAWATI BT AHMAD SANI

PREPARED BY:
SALINA BINTI SULAIMAN (048573)
Descriptive report on teaching experience during Covid-19

My experienced being a teacher trainee as one of the students of Diploma in Teaching

English as a Second Language (TESL) under University of Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) has

directly corrected my view regarding teaching and learning process that actually needs a lot of

patience and hard work. The teaching practicum for six weeks that supposedly to be 3 months at

Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Air has also helped me in terms of leadership and social skills as I

need to interact with others staff and school teachers in exchanging opinions on education system

and handling school programs also other curricular activities that can increase my teaching

professionalism.

I have been assigned to teach around 30 students in a classroom coming from different

background of family, educational level and behavior that needs me to really understand each

one of them in order to facilitate their learning process. This is because there are around 10 slow

learners and half of the class can’t speak in English at all, therefore I need to adopt my teaching

pedagogy so that no students will be left out during the lesson. It is just a matter of

encouragement and given chances to try new things and explore more as they are in high state of

curiosity so that wider knowledge can be gain by them at a young age.

Being an English teacher in a rural area school, the challenge are focus on making the

students feels confident and used to speak in English comfortably at least with their friends. This

challenge arises due to unsupportive surrounding and lack of awareness in terms of future

benefits in mastering English language such as work commitment. Hence, I often use visual aids

like flashcards and incorporate high-tech by bringing them to computer lab to attract students’

interest aligned with the 21st century learning. Through this, I can incorporate many language
skills such as listening and speaking and students have chance to learn many new vocabularies as

the learning are not solely using textbook. As Covid-19 hit our country, I think there would be no

issue to have a normal learning process as lesson also can be done through online learning such

as making a teaching video or doing assessment together with students through any video-calling

platform.