It’s been several weeks now, about a month since the 2008/2009 Rain semester examination at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife has ended. Though many students are back at home on long vacation, yet mindless of the sense of gregariety and the feel of miss for loved ones that is immanent in all humans, some students were made to stay back, though not taken aback on the essence of this. This is in partial fulfillment of their professional training for a period of seven weeks.
Kayode Gabriel Adeola, 200-L Quantity survey said:” the first week was for orientation, enlightening our less initiated eyes on the endless opportunities that await us out there. It was also to guide us on the way to go by the training.
Of those made to stay were the students of the faculties of Education, Technology, and Environmental Design and Management (EDM), undergoing training in pedagogy, engineering, and environmental design cum management.
Ajibade Davies, a 200-Level student of the Faculty of Technology explained: “ though those of the Faculty of Education refer to their training as Teaching Practice (TP), those of us in the faculty of Technology and our colleagues in the Faculty of Environmental Design and Management (EDM) call it various names at different levels: Students Working Experience Programme (SWEP) in part 2: Students Industrial Working Experience Scheme (SIWES) in part 3, and Industrial Training (IT) in part 4 ”.
Some of them share their experiences with CAMPUSLIFE on what their training has being like:
Kayode Gabriel Adeola also said most articulately: “we’ve been exposed to series of activities. SWEP has been challenging and demanding - We were out on one of those days on a visit to the OPA Water Dam; on another day, the oxidation pond (where the collection of wastes and sewage water are collected for treatment, for the safety of the users thereof). It was a long trek through the thick led by an agile staff. The most interesting aspect of this is the market survey we had to Moore, Opa, Lagere and other markets to get the market value of various building materials such as cement, paint, block, reinforcement, etc, from merchant-men who trade in it. All to drill us! ”
Alawode Afolake, a part 3 student of English Education however shared that: “TP has been boring for me, both in the school and in my hostel. This is because my school dad and lone school confidant has graduated. It’s also no easy task producing Instructional Materials (IM), as it’s not readily available. More so, junior school students can be troublesome, making classroom management much difficult”.
To many a student of the faculty of education who were posted very far from the hostel facility, the teaching practice has not been convenient as they’ve had to spend so much on transport fare irrecoverably, unlike their counterparts in the faculties of EDM and Technology who will be paid later. They wish the TP ends now.
On how they’ve been able to keep friendship across the miles, connecting with missed roommates and loved ones, both Gabriel and Afolake, reached the terminus of means having mentioned that they call the mobile lines of those they’ve missed and chat on facebook. Thanks to Extracool.
By Afolabi Oni
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