The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education through the SEAMEO Council has adopted the SEAMEO Education Agenda or the seven priority areas for SEAMEO to work together to improve quality education in Southeast Asia. "Revitalizing Teacher Education" is one of the priority areas in achieving quality education for the region. In order to fulfill this mandate, the SEAMEO Secretariat has initiated a project titled, "Pre-Service Student Teacher Exchange in Southeast Asia (SEA-Teacher Project)".

The SEA-Teacher project aims to provide opportunity for pre-service student teachers from universities in Southeast Asia to have teaching experiences (practicum) in schools in other countries in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the aims of the SEA-Teacher are:

1. to enable the student teachers to develop their teaching skills and pedagogy.

2. to encourage the student teaches to practice their English skills.

3. to allow the student teachers to gain a broader regional and world view.

4. to expose future teachers to diverse teaching and learning situations and opportunities, and the value of flexibility.

The student teachers have to follow four stages during one month of exchange programme. In this case, the receiving university is given the opportunity to be able to arrange a schedule that include these four stages within 4 weeks of the programme.

1st Stage: Orientation and class observation

2nd Stage: Teaching Assistant

• working with classroom teacher

• lesson plan consolidation

3rd Stage: Teaching in Classroom

• Adequate teaching hours

• monitoring and evaluation by mentor

4th Stage: Reflection and Lesson Learned

• reflection of students performance in general and discussion of the lesson learned

• finalizing blog and report

• mentors help and checked the writing