M inistry o f Higher and Secondary Specialized Education o f the Republic o f Uzbekistan

UNIT 4 RACTICAL OUTCOMES
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Practical and Laboratory
Work
You are going to listen to 3 speakers presenting 
I the idea about practical and lboratory work. 
e Practicum
f According to most dictionaries, practicum is a 
■practical section o f a course o f study in a particular 
■field, usually comes at graduate level and is designed
■ to give students supervised practical application of a 
■previously or concurrently studied theory. In some 
Bbases, it is confused with internship; however, this
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t is not always excepted as a part of the educational 
■program.
1 Students are engaged in fieldwork consistent with
■ the subject of the course, or a research project, with 
I a teacher practicing in the field. Besides, it includes 
Seminars that employ the students’ experience as 
■text, familiarizing them w ith the relevant substantive 
^mameworks, as well as the skills they need. Students 
■feflect on their work experiences in a supportive 
^plassroom environment with tutors and peers with 
■similar professional undertakings.
W hy do we need it?
The exorbitant cost of equipping schools and 
universities with laboratories and practical kits is 
surely a great contribution for further development 
but a real experience, coming out of practicum, is 
right thing if you don’t w ant to fail to come to grips 
with science. Some students tend to favor theory over 
practice and others wholly neglect the theory, but 
unidirectional approach can cause an inconsistent 
professional development and downgrade learners’ 
science basis, making them less competitive. Here 
is the reason why we need it? It is said that there is 
no education without any experience. In addition, 
practical and laboratory work in education provides 
smooth conversion of a literate student to a competent 
employee, teaching soft skills like independent 
problem-solving, working collegially with fellow staff 
and developing professional values and attitudes.
W hy is it considered as practical and laboratory 
work?
The word laboratory stems from Latin ‘labor’ - to 
work, to make effort, challenge or toil, which points 
to the conception related to employing intellectual and 
physical efforts on inquisition of an obscure method 
and medium for resolution o f scientific and existential 
questions.
The word practicum is applied to designate a