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Practicum Experience at Al Qarayen Kindergarten

Aisha Hashil AlKharoossi completed her practicum at Al Qarayen kindergarten, which had around 12 classes and over 300 students. She enjoyed developing the speaking and thinking skills of the young students. Her main challenge was managing the large number of students. She showed commitment by arriving on time daily and using the Ministry of Education curriculum. She collaborated with her mentor teacher and other teachers by discussing lessons and asking questions. Her mentor teacher helped her with lesson planning by considering student levels and choosing activities. She learned the importance of organization and having a backup plan. Her strengths included being open-minded, and she wants to improve her ability to plan engaging activities.

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Practicum Experience at Al Qarayen Kindergarten

Aisha Hashil AlKharoossi completed her practicum at Al Qarayen kindergarten, which had around 12 classes and over 300 students. She enjoyed developing the speaking and thinking skills of the young students. Her main challenge was managing the large number of students. She showed commitment by arriving on time daily and using the Ministry of Education curriculum. She collaborated with her mentor teacher and other teachers by discussing lessons and asking questions. Her mentor teacher helped her with lesson planning by considering student levels and choosing activities. She learned the importance of organization and having a backup plan. Her strengths included being open-minded, and she wants to improve her ability to plan engaging activities.

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Practicum interview

Aisha Hashil AlKharoossi


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Al Qarayen kindergarten
● Around 12 classes
● More than 300 students
● 15 teacher without Administration
What did you most enjoy about your practicum?

● First TP children
● Developments
● speaking skill
● thinking, understanding
What challenges did you face?

● Number of students
_______________________________________________________________________

What did you do to show your commitment to


your job as a teacher in the school?

● Come on time
● Working as a real teacher
● Teaching mostly everyday
● Use MOE curriculum
How did you collaborate with your MST and other
teachers in the school?
● Discussing
● Asking

Typical day in the school


● Sing in
● Morning assembly
● English class
● Playground
● Eating
● Arabic class
Talk about the process of planning for lessons. How did your
MST go about this?
Students levels - Lesson choosing - Develop the activity

How did you plan for your first lesson?


● Get ready 2 days before
● Discussing with MST

What did you learn about planning during the practicum?


● Saving time
What challenges did you face when preparing your lesson
plans?
● Activities

Explain how you planned for teaching speaking and


listening.

● Listening → song
● Speaking → circle
Describe how effectively you managed the transitions
between activities. What strategies worked you?
● Call-and-response

Which were the most effective strategies you observed your


MST using in the classroom?
● Use gross motor

Talk about one negative and one positive experience you had
in attempting to manage negative behaviour in the
classroom.
● Positive → punishment area
● Negative → shouting
What strategies did you employ to teach speaking /listening
activities to 2L learners?
● Music
● Dialogue
What do you have to take into consideration when teaching
2L learners speaking/listening activities?

● Students level

(Discuss the theories of Behaviorism, Innatism and


Interactionist. Present 2 lesson plans that evidence this).
Describe what assessment instruments you saw your MST
using when assessing the students. What assessment
instruments did you use to help assess student learning?
● Observing during learning center
● Asking
Why do you think it’s important to be well organized when
in the school?
● Teacher is model
● Teaching easier

Have your organisation and planning skills improved?

● Plan B
what would you say have been your particular strengths and
what you feel needs further development in subsequent
TPs?

● Strength → open minded


● Weakness → activities

How do you think that your own


perspectives on teaching and learning
have changed this semester?

● Learn more about the children


● Learn more about role of teaching
What do you think are important things to study at college
to ensure that you are well prepared for TP?

● Basic teacher role


● dealing with Children
How effectively do you think you communicated with your
MST throughout the placement?

● Help to planning
● Do tasks

Did you face any problems or challenges in dealing with


_____________ and how did you manage these?

● vice president
Choose one task that you found interesting and tell
about it. What did you learn from doing this task?

● Discussing with children

Refer to one artefact / other task / journal you


found interesting and tell about it.

● Task 3
Thank you

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