Housed in Meeting Room of Vice Rector 1, YSU, 4 students of Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) Malaysia was warmly greeted in the Orientation and Welcoming Ceremony: Reciprocal Teaching Practice Program on Monday (7/9/2015). In this occasion, they were accompanied by a lecturer from UPSI and an occupational therapist. The students will have field practice for one month in 1 Bantul Public Special School.

The event was started with orientation and brief description regarding teaching and learning in 1 Bantul Public Special School as presented by the headmaster, Muh Basuni, M.Pd. He informed that the school is an integrated special school, where kindergartens to senior high school buildings are available in the school area.

All of those students have proper knowledge regarding teaching disabled students, but each has different concentration, namely speech impairment, deaf, and vision impairment.  However, they confirmed they could also teach physically disabled students, but not for mentally disabled.

In this orientation program, all students were informed about the nuance in Yogyakarta and public places they can visit. They are also invited to learn types of public transportations in YSU to reach places in Yogyakarta.

One of the students revealed they were experiencing culture shock when realizing that Yogyakarta has excessive number of citizens. She compared Yogyakarta with Kuala Lumpur, in terms of high number of people living in the city. Nonetheless, she is relieved to know that they will be assigned in Bantul. Indeed, Bantul is not as busy and crowded as Yogyakarta.

Besides, Puan Noreha Binti Mohd Yusuf as a lecturer and representative of UPSI asserted her intention that YSU can help supervise and guide the students. She also commanded her students to learn and adapt with Indonesian language, because sometimes there are some differences in meaning between Malay and Indonesian language.

In addition, Puan Noreha Binti Mohd Yusuf as a representative of UPSI lecturer expressed her intention to YSU to  guide the students.  She also asked the students to learn and adjust to Indonesian Language, because sometimes there are some slightly different words.

In the same agenda, Nur Azizah, S.Pd., M. Ed, a lecture of Special Education, Faculty of Education  YSU stated "YSU will try everything possible to help the students in the practice of teaching in school and in adjusting to the conditions and culture in Indonesia". As the supervising lecturer, she also urged the students to not only teach, but can also show a respective figure of teacher. (Wulan)