Day 6 ( Observation Week)

The first day of my observation in Phetphadungweingchai school. I observed the Ep 3 class. Every class has the range of 25-37 students. I observed for their English class, the teacher of the English class in Phetphadungweinghai are all foreigners. For this semester, they have 2 Filipinos, 2 Americans. As well as the Chinese language program, they have 2 Chinese Intern students who are teaching for about 2 months. 

Teacher Maggie one of the foreign teacher teaching English class.

Teacher Maggie is one of the English teachers here in Phetphadungweingchai school for about 5 months. For today's lesson, the teacher is introducing to the Kindergarten 3 the letter sound "Q". By repetition, the students are able to learn the letter sound of "Q".

Each classroom has 2 teachers, one is the main teacher and the other is the assistant teacher where from case to case basis if the main teacher is not present, the class will still have another teacher, that is already familiar to them. 

Thai children are very adorable. 

I observed the children varying in the age that they have a short attention span. It is a challenge for the teacher to make the lesson dynamic and interesting, and integrated. So that, if it is not effective for the students to have a one long hour lecture, the teacher should integrate the lesson into something else that the students might be interested but still have the same goal of achieving to learn the lesson for that day. It might be through, songs, or actions, or even games.

Students in action

Students doing their activity

The teacher is giving instruction to the student's activity for today.

The students are listening carefully to the teacher as he lectures.

Day 5- About my school

Phetphadungweingchai School is the school where I am about to observe and teach for a month. It is located at Moo, Wiang, Chaiya, Surat Thani Province, Thailand.

BRIEF HISTORY BACKGROUND OF THE SCHOOL

Phetphadungweingchai is a private school started the year 1957 by the late Mr. LomKeawfung. In this present time, Mr. Preecha Thepnuan as the Director of Education and owner of the school. Mrs. Amara Thepnuan manages the school and Ms. Preeyanan Tepnuan as the school director.




ABOUT THE SCHOOL NAME

Phetphadungweingchai means the strong diamond lives to be a winner in Chaiya. Phet means "diamond". Phadung means "place where to live", Weing " is a "subdistrict" and Chai comes from the word "Chaiya"- a district where the school is located.



THE SCHOOL LOGO AND COLOR

Blue and White, the official colors of Phetphadungweingchai school. The color blue represents the "sky and sea a the fullest and royalty" and the color white represents " happiness, brightness, intelligence and being strong".


THE SCHOOL PHILOSOPHY 

The Phetphadungweingchai School philosophy is "Academic good activities highlight merit". It unifies to their goals, vision, and mission to be a school in Chaiya district that provides an excellent quality of education for the Kindergarten students through academic teaching, good activities that develop the child holistically and providing self-discipline that prepares the child to be a good Thai-citizen. It provides the academic teaching to the students to have a better knowledge in the various fields and it is also the basis of life for the students.

THE SCHOOL VISION AND MISSION

VISION-  " To provide quality students to help the society through improvement in academic aspect".


The school commits to encouraging students to meet the standards of morality, ethics, health, fitness, and mental well-being. And aims that the community has the contribution to the academic development by being a counter partner in the education of the students.

      

MISSION- 

The following statements are the school missions in order to achieve the school vision.

1. Develop and instill moral learners.   Ethics and adherence to the principles of religion.

2. Develop students to have academic excellence.   Have skills in language and information technology.

3. Encourage creative learners to follow their learning.

4. Organize activities to promote good health and well-being of students.

5. Development of personnel to be able to manage the education.

6. Create a good relationship between school and community.

7. Provide a learning environment and resources conducive to learning.

THE SCHOOL GOALS

1. All learners are continuously developing physical,   mental,   emotional and social development.

2. Students have the skills to work. Can work with others and be a role model of good leaders.

3. 75% of learners have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.75, with the knowledge and skills required for the course.

4. The students have moral.   Ethics and values of the school.

5. Teachers have the spirit of being teachers, knowledgeable, competent and responsible.

6. Teachers have the ability to effectively manage teaching and learning.

7. Leadership, ethics, leadership, ability to manage the education. Efficiency and Effectiveness are being promoted and applied by the teachers and staff of the school. 

8. The school has quality standards for education according to the ministerial regulations.

9. The school provides a service environment that is conducive to learners' learning.

Outstanding Activity means the process of organizing activities that contribute to the learning process. Students dare to think, in a way that in every classroom, each student has the opportunity to express themselves without hindrances and by being creative in thinking and helping out the best of them and the correct expression of age.

The school also emphasized on the morality that means to be good conductors both in speech and action, physically active and dynamic, verbally discreet and honest, and happy citizens of the society. 

SCHOOL POPULATION as of 2018

Phetphadungweingchai school as of this year has 473 kindergarten students and 46 teaching staff including the farang( foreign teachers).

While the Elementary school or the Pratum consists of 1,000 Pratum students and 107 teachers and staffs.


For more information about the Phetphadungwengchai school visit the website at /http://phetphadung.ac.th/

Day 4- Orientation Day

All the participants and mentors of  SEA Teacher Project SEAMEO 6th Batch

Sir Potjanat Koprasert, our SEAMEO Teacher Project Coordinator. 

Briefing the mentors about the SEAMEO SEA Teacher Project

Representatives from Benguet State University
Me( Jemah Faye Fabila)- Pre-school Education
Nicol Bestre- Science Major
Kenjo Bay-an- English Major

We were oriented about the next 3 weeks in our place and the school and the teaching requirements and meet our mentors who will help us in the following weeks in the practice teaching.

Somewhere this Day (Part 3)

I always see the "night market"

 of Thailand in the vlogs that I watch on the internet. But today, I am here and it was an amazing experience. Here are some of the pictures that we saw selling in the market. 

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Sweet Cakes

Watermelon Shake

We dare each other to try to eat some silkworms. And it's delicious! :)

Somewhere this Day ( Part 2)

Heading to some places to visit in Surat Thani. The weather for this day is very beautiful, it is cloudy and partly sunny. 

The City Pillar Shrine

Inside the Pillar Shrine

Tapi River 

The Tapi River is the longest river in Southern Thailand. It has the length of 230 kilometers and it flows from the south of Thailand up to the Northern part of the country. 

Somewhere this Day (Part 1)

August 5, 2018, we arrived to our final destination, Surat Thani, Thailand. 

Our coordinator, Sir Potjanat Koprasert together with his two students accompany us and bring us to the hotel where we are going to stay for a night. We feel very comfortable at the hotel where we stayed for a night. 

At Banjongburi Hotel, Surat Thani

1:00 in the afternoon, the students of Sir Potjanat take us to roam around the downtown. We went first to the CentralPlaza. We roam around the mall and have our lunch together with our coordinators' students. After this, they take us to some places that can be seen in Surat Thani. 

With Nicol Bestre at Central Plaza

Day 3-Sawadee Ka Thailand!

Here's the photo that I safely arrive in Thailand. 


I thank God for the safe travel that we had. For almost 3 and a half hours, finally, we are here in Thailand.

Since Bangkok is not our final destination. We need to stay at the airport and wait for our next flight heading to Surat Thani.

The excitement is getting more intense, yet we are hoping that each day of our stay in Thailand would be memorable and unforgettable.