An Experience in the Field

Field Experience [FE] [codename: TSL451] is a new course that was added after UiTM’s Faculty of Education’s revamp. The purpose: to give the trainee teachers an early experience in the schools as future teachers. Before this, the trainees could only go to the schools for a three-months-practicum in Part 7 [or the last year]. I guess it’s better to have FE. At least, we’ll have an idea of what to expect when we become teachers during the Practicum – less culture shock, fear and anxiety.

So, FE requires us to visit our given schools and spend two weeks there observing, assisting, discussing, and doing whatever stuff our mentors ask us to do… school-related stuff, mind you. The mentors are the teachers assign to the trainees. We are not just doing things related to English, but others like co-curricular activities, or accompanying the mentors to their meeting [if the mentors want it]. Oh yeah, we need to fill up the ROS report… I don’t even know what the heck it is. After all that, we have to fill up some forms about the mentors’ ways of the T&L sessions in the class. Good, isn’t it?

Anyway, unlike the IPG’s School-based Experience [SBE], we, the trainees, don’t have the opportunity to choose our own school. Instead, UiTM chooses them for us. Other than that, we are given secondary schools, not primaries like SBE. UiTM really takes this seriously since all those schools are the high-achieving/elite schools… Guess where’s mine?

SEKOLAH MENENGAH SAINS SULTAN MAHMUD a.k.a. SESMA~!

So, SESMA… get ready for me! Huwahaha~! I’m so looking forward to spend my two weeks there! Let’s hope you guys [by this, I’m referring to the students] will be nice!