ANALYSING 7th SEMESTER S TUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES ON PEDAGOGICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS DURING TEACHING PRACTICUM AT SMP N 10 BENGKULU CITY

Teaching practicum is the final lesson learning for teacher trainee education
major of a University. Teaching practicum is a place for the students teacher to
implement their theoretical knowledge at the University. In here the students
teacher are given around 2 month to do the teaching practice. The students teacher
face the real class, situation, and students in the practicum. They also do the duty
as a teacher. Since they don’t have any experience about teachership before, they
might have found difficulties. Moreover, the students teacher are going to be a
teacher in the future so they need to be qualified in the teacher competencies
aspects. Therefore, the researcher took for analysing the difficulties faced by
students teacher in pedagogical and professional aspects because it was related
more to the teaching directly. This study used descriptive qualitative as the research
design and used thematic analysis to order the data. The participants were students
teacher who were doing teaching practicum and English teachers at SMP N 10
Bengkulu City. Therefore, this research was categorizes as single case study with
the research period around December 2021-January 2022. The result this study was
triangulated in order to make the data valid. Briefly, there were the difficulties
findings of this research : 1. The difficulties on pedagogical aspects consist of :
Understanding students characteristic, Identifying students potential, Identifying
students’ learning difficulties, Understanding some theories relevant to teaching
and learning, Determining the students mastery based on the result and evaluation,
Providing a variety of learning activity ( learning extra ). 2. The difficulties on
professional aspects consist of : Mastering English branch of sciences. In the
conclusion, in this study it was found that ¼ indicated as difficulties findings from
the all indicators of competencies on pedagogical and professional aspects.
Keyword : Teaching Practicum , Pedagogical, and Professional