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The SEA Teacher Project or the “Pre-Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia” is a project that aims to provide opportunity for pre-service student teachers from universities in Southeast Asia to have teaching experiences (practicum) in schools in other countries in Southeast Asia.

Based on the SEAMEO seven priority areas for the eleven SEAMEO Member countries to work together to improve the quality of education in Southeast Asia, “Revitalizing Teacher Education” is one of the priority areas in building and strengthening capacity of teachers in the region.

The project is for the pre-service student teachers whose major are in math, science, English and pre-school. The practicum period is for one month. The students’ roles and responsibilities are assigned weekly during the one month period (observe, assist in teaching, teach and reflect). The host universities will provide mentors to supervise and monitor the students throughout the practicum period. The project uses the mechanism of cost sharing basis.

The Objective of the Project

To enable pre-service student teachers to develop their teaching skills and pedagogy.
To encourage the pre-service student teachers to practice their English skills.
To allow the pre-service student teachers to gain a broader regional and world view.

[Source: http://seateacher.seameo.org/seateacher/ ]

The 3rd batch of SEA-Teacher Project will be held on January 15 until February 13. There are 3 country taking part in this batch, they are Indonesia, Thailand, and Philippine. Furthermore, there are 207 students and 27 Universities participate in this batch, they are :