How many weeks of official student teaching did you do before getting your...

[Rainia W]

...teaching degree? How did it go? Do you think you should have had more/less?

[Girlie B]

In the Philippines, that depends on the curriculum or course you are in. In our case, our student teachers have to undergo 164 hours of actual teaching apprenticeship in their on-campus and another 164 hours in their off-campus, for a total of 328 hours, where they will be awarded a certificate of completion after completion, allowing them to work on a very flexible routine but must suit with the students' class schedules. The critic teacher manages this and she signs on a form that allows the supervisor to see if the number of hours have been met or not and the reason why it was not met.