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Last weekend in the PH. Well, me and my roommates had an appointment with our Philippino friends today. She is Gail the social science student, our tour guide from the campus tour. She will accompany us to go to Quiapo. Gail was not alone. She brought her boyfriend Harold, her cousin Ate Val and Kuya Ralph. We ride Jeepney to get there. Our first stop is souvenirs shop. I was so excited to buy souvenirs for my family and friends. I bought a lot of keychains and pencil case. Its already Zuhur (praying time in the afternoon for Muslim) then we went to Golden Mosque for praying. We are so happy, almost a month we are in Philippine but this is our first time to visit Mosque in Manila. After praying, we had lunch in Jollibee to recharge our energy because we will continue the trip to National Museum and Divisiora. We really enjoyed today. We got to the dorm around 6 p.m and all of us are exhausted. I thank Gail and others, it is very kind of them. Time to say good bye.

August 8, 2018 Sun rised. I have a morning view from the airplane. I'm not alone in this trip. I go with Tri, she is my classmate we are English pre-service student teacher and we will unseparated because we will share room in dorm. We are the first delegates come to PH, arrived at 06.30 a.m and Prof. Lagniton and the driver already fetch us in the airport. She is a supervisor of science. They are very kind and humble. I like Prof. Lagniton, she so graceful. Our first stop is UST, we took pictures in front of the main building then we go to the dorm to put our baggage. Our dorm located at Piy Margal street. It takes 5 minutes to go to UST by walking. After that, we have breakfast in UST food court. We shared room with other delegate from Yogyakarta, Uun. She also an English pre-service student teacher. UST provide us with a comfortable dorm. There are 4 bed, 4 desks, a small kitchen and a bathroom. Look comfortable. August 9, 2018 All delegates a

Time flies so fast. Sometimes I rewind the unforgettable memories in my head about Philippines. New culture, new knowledge, new friends and how to adapt in new society. Words can't explain it all. Most valuable experience of those is when I teach in UST Junior High School. The biggest motivation to improve and develop my teaching method and strategies is my students. Also, I learned a lot from my lovely cooperating teacher. The way she teach inspired me to be a great teacher, easy going but charismatic. Philippines taugh me about being close friends with foreigner. It is not only about shared knowledge and culture but beyond those. We laugh, we cry, we went shopping together and we shared our food. We struggled together, help and  encourage each other. Starting from not knowing each other, we became close like family and I tried to always keep in touch. Mahal ko kayo! I'm so glad to be one of the SEA TEACHER delegates. The education differences between Philippines and Indo

Curriculum The curriculum applied in the Philippines today is K12. "K" stands for Kindergarten and 12 refers to succeeding 12 years of basic education (6 years of elementary education,   4 years of junior high school, and 2 years of senior high school).   Meanwhile for English grade 10 curriculum which has three components: (1) Grammar and Composition which focuses on the different principles of effective communication, (2) Research which appreciates research both as a process and as product, (3) Reading and Literature which appreciates essay, poetry, narrative, drama and mythology as distinct literary genres. The topics are organized in a spiral manner such that each component emanates from previous studies from grade 7 to 9. Source of Learning and Technology The materials use resources that available in the library and online. Measurement and Evaluation System In Philippines  they use some grading system as measurement by using:   30% to Writ

I was so nervous, excited and sad at the same time. Today is my grand teaching demonstration also my last day to teach in UST Junior High School but I’m too excited to go back to Indonesia. I miss Indonesian food so bad. Okay I took it as a motivation hahaha I  taught two class today , St. Dominic and St. Denise. I asked Ma’am Ramos a few days ago that St. Dominic just for my warming up class and the adjudicators can judge me when I teach St. Denise but then... Jeng jeng jeng... I saw Ma’am Sauz infront of St. Dominic class. She is our supervisor from Colleges of Education and the adjudicator for English subject. Aih I become more nervous. I taught Academic Writing Conventions today. I got the material from the book that Ma’am Ramos borrowed for me but I also read some books about research in library to gain knowledge about research. Almost all of the teachers in UST Junior High School use projector as their media, so I used it as well. Before we start the lesson, I gave them an

New experience just about to begin! The first and second week are observations time. The observations only lasted for two days and the rest of the day called as assistantship . While assistantship, the delegates will get ancillary task from their cooperating teacher. I was introduced to my cooperating teacher, Mrs. Maria Teresa Casado Ramos during school orientation . She is very beautiful, generous and has soft voice. She help me dealing, and knowing how to do the internship . She also guide me how to make my BBLP (Brain-Based Learning Plan).   She teaches English in grade 10.  I was responsible to handle her class, St.Dominic and St. Dennis. We usually meet around 09.30 AM in the library, during our daily meeting she explains and sometimes give me instructions about what we will do in the class. We are the superhero and the side-kick who is ready to save the     day, just like batman and robin . St. Dominic class begin at 10.15 with greeting as usual, Then Mam Ramos will l

Today is the second day I woke up in Philippines and we have orientation in UST Junior High School. We went there at 08.40. We are kindly welcomed by the headmaster and cooperating teachers. UST Junior High School is part of University of Santo Tomas located in Espana Blvd., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines 1008. The Junior High School consist of 4 grade in Philippine grade standard, the grades are VII,VIII,IX and X . UST Junior High School has 10 section (classess) for each grade. Every section named after Saint of the Catholic Church. We can identify the grade by the first letter after “St.”. Letter A for grade 7, B for grade 8, C for grade 9 and D for grade 10. For example St. Agnes (grade 7), St. Bernadine (grade 8), St. Crispin (grade 9) and St. Denise (grade 10). UST Junior High School has 3 floors. The first floor is lobby, cafetaria, conference rooms, robotic room and faculty room. On the second floor there are grade 9 and 10 classess, library, computer laboratory. On

The University of Santo Tomas (UST) is a Dominican institution of learning, founded on April 28, 1611 in Intramuros, Manila (the original site of UST before moving to Espana, Manila). UST moved to its current location during the start of the 20th century. UST is the oldest existing university in Asia under the patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas. UST is the only pontifical university in the Philippines and UST is also a royal university, given by the monarchy of the kingdom of Spain. UST was established by Fr. Miguel Benavides O.P. He just wanted to establish a library and from that, UST grew to a university. UST offer 4 levels of education; Junior High School, Education High School, Senior High School and College. All of students and staffs in UST called their self as Thomasian and we had a good chance to be called as Thomasian because we have an internship in UST Junior High School for 3 weeks. There are 8 faculties, 9 colleges, 2 institutes and 1 Conservatory of Music in UST. My bud