To summarize, the purpose of the practicum was to make students understand the content of the subject. It is hard to measure whether they understood the content or not, but one way to visualize the understanding is giving the test covering the content. Thus, I gave students the performance task at the end of the practicum. It made it clear that the content surely met the need for the lesson.
Because I had four teaching practice days, I made the procedure of practicum as follow.
| Day 1 | Teaching Lesson 1-3 |
| Day 2 | Teaching Lesson 1-4 |
| Day 3 | Performance Task |
| Day 4 | Review of Performance Task |
As it was mentioned earlier, the outcome of the practicum can be evaluated by the scores of the performance task. Because the school itself draw a certain score line to determine grades, the task was a good choice to evaluate the outcome as well.
The hardest challenge was to attract attention from students during the class. Because in Japan, students are usually calm and quiet, I was hard to adjust myself in the environment of the class with energetic students. the difficulty however, was solved by examining and observing the cooperating teacher’s lesson as well as his feedback to my teaching practice.
The overall impression to the practicum is good. Not only it followed the teaching plan precisely, but I could take all the feedbacks and experience into next day of the class to improve better practicum. Thus, I can appreciate the overall impression well. For the future improvement, I suggest that there should be opinion exchanges among SEA-Teachers. Although it might be hard to do since each of the student are on the same schedule and only difference is that it is different class, it would lead to the motivation and improvement for each the teacher.