Practising School Yangon Institute of Education

The "Practising School, Yangon Institute of Education"(), later, "Practising High School, Yangon University of Education"() (abbreviated TTC Yangon) was the name of a high school in Yangon, Myanmar, which is currently called Basic Education Department Practising High School, Kamayut Township (). Although it is a high school in the technical sense, TTC's student body comprises students from Grade Kg (formerly Kindergarten) to Grade Eleven (formerly Tenth Standard) or Matriculation, the highest standard in the Myanmar education system. The origin of the name of the school comes from the fact that TTC is part of the Institute of Education (former Teachers' Training College), whose trainee teachers are attached to the school as part of their course.
History.
The school was established in 1931. Its main campus is situated on Pyay Road in Kamayut Township. It was established as an experimental school by the colonial education authority as a new means to deliver scientific education to the student body. Thus, the school did not fall under either the colonial government's school syllabus (consisting mostly of mission-schools run by the religious order), nor the newly founded Nationalist Vernacular school network. Consequently, after Myanmar (Burma)'s independence, the school remained somewhat independent of the Basic Education High School network, although they shared the same government implemented syllabus.
Until the outbreak of the World War II, the school had boarding facilities, mainly for students from out of town. The school was served by the Rangoon Electric Tramway's University Line along Prome Road (now Pyay Road).
Administration and campus.
The Yangon University of Education (Lower Myanmar) independently ran the TTC High School with the joint administration of Higher Education Department, unlike the rest of the schools in the country which are administered by the Basic Education Department. TTC Yangon was therefore the only significant school of considerable size outside the Basic Education School network. But, since 2018, the Department of Higher Education started to transfer all the Practising Schools of Education Colleges and Universities of Education under it. TTC Yangon has been completely transferred in 2021.
TTC has one campus: Pyay Road (in Kamayut Township) campus. Kamayut campus is wide, and is the main site of the school, housing much of the school's original pre-war buildings. TTC Kamayut Campus is different to other schools'campuses for their university-like locations.
Kamayut campus is bordered by three universities: the University of Medicine-1, Yangon, the University of Education, and the University of Distant Education, sharing the same main street, Thaton Street.
Student body.
TTC Yangon has a large student body in Yangon and in Myanmar, numbering near 9000. The students are spread across eleven standards or grades, from Grade-1 (formerly Kindergarten of KG) to Grade-11 (formerly Tenth Standard, colloquially "sei-dan")
For many years, TTC students have a tradition of putting the right finger at the lip and say "Kyan Mar Shwin Lan Par Sae" *_ကျန်းမာရွင်လန်းပါစေ ဆရာ/ဆရာမ_* – (good health to you) to the teachers. This is a tradition to show respect to the teachers.
Uniform.
Students wear uniform. There are two sets of uniform, one for wear from Kindergarten to 4th Standard (Grades 1 to 5), and another, more traditional one for wear from the 5th Standard to 10th Standard (Grades 6 to 11). All uniforms are of the same colour – a white shirt or blouse, with a green garment for the torso.
School badge.
The distinguishing feature of the TTC student's uniform is the lack of the sewn-in school badge – all other schools require that the school name and badge be sewn into either the shoulder sleeve or above the single left side pocket.
In TTC, a small brooch like badge, bearing an oil lamp (in both Buddhist and Burmese terminology, the oil lamp represents wisdom and education), with school's name. TTC Yangon is the only school which has such a badge system.
Accomplishments.
It ranks the highest overall in Burmese High School in the Myanmar University Entrance exam, conducted by the Myanma Examination Board. TTC's student body produces many high scoring students both in terms of collective subjects and individual subjects, making into the very competitive "nationwide outstanding top-ten students' list", colloquially known as the whole-Burma or top ten list quite often.
TTC has won medals in national and international competitions, such as South East Asian Games.
Students have won medals in "Myanmar Traditional and Cultural Performing Arts Competition" ("So-Ka-Yay-Tee") and won painting
competitions.
Renovations.
TTC relied on already existing buildings for much of its existence. Much of these buildings were on loan from the Yangon University of Education. However, by 2000, the grants expired and were not renewed. In order to cope with the loss of nearly three-quarters of its classroom capacity, a building and renovation programme was implemented, resulting in the renting of the former University of Yangon (Hlaing Campus), which was also known as Regional College Number 2 (or RC-2), and the building of a new school wing. Five wings from RC-2 were rented from the Ministry of Education in 2000, and the completion of a three-storey wing.
With the rising use of the internet and government promotion of information technology, two IT labs have been added to the campus facilities, though they are not frequently used, due to the overwhelming student population. A new assembly hall, arts hall and a chemistry lab have also been added.
Facilities.
"Pyay Campus"