Chapter 3 – Teaching plan

Chapter 3 – Teaching plan

1.The curriculum

The curriculum which is used in Demonstration School of Valaya Alongkorn Rajabhat University, follow the basic education core curriculum B.E. 2551 (A.D. 2008). You can read it below:

2.Teaching plan related to my major (Biology Teacher Education)

In order to make my lesson plan which i would teach in demonstration school, i had to contact with my mentor in VRU and my Co – operating teacher in DS.VRU after i had got my personal schedule for practice and observation from DS.VRU.

First, when i got my schedule, i met my co – operating teacher to got my topic which i would prepare to teach. My co – operating teacher gave me a topic which was about human digestive in grade 8. She told me that “you could teach by your way, but you had to follow Thai education curriculum”. It was really a challenge for me. Therefore i had to try my best to pass this challenge. I know that it would give me more experience in education when i conquered it.

After that, i met my mentor to discuss about contents which i should teach in my topics. He told me that he would observe me in final week. He also gave me some useful advices for my lesson plan and my practice such as: contents which i should teach, management time in lesson. His advices was extremely useful for my practice.

Moreover, i got help from a my thai friend to have a thai student textbook in grade 8 to refer. she explained me about knowledge in this book. In addition, I also read the basic curriculum in thai education to follow in my lesson plan.

When i made my lesson plan, i tried to design activities to help students for understand knowledge. I made my lesson plan which followed steps which i had learned in my university in vietnam.

Steps in my lesson plan:

+Engagement

+Exploration

+Explanation

+Elaborate

+Evaluation

In first step which is engagement, i made motivation for students to join my lesson through some questions about their life.

In exploration step, i introduced about knowledge which students had to learn in this lesson.

I explained knowledge and helped student to understand fund of knowledge in explanation step.

I made a situation for students to apply their knowledge in life in Elaborate step.

Finally, i gave them some questions to evaluate their understanding in evaluation step.

I used some materials in my lesson plan such as: diagram, video, worksheet. All of materials helped student to understand and apply their knowledge. It also helped me to evaluate and got feedback from my students.

The main contains in digestive system topic:

    The functions of human digestive system

    The name of organs in human digestive

    The function of each organ in human digestive system

You can check my lesson plan below: