Study without books
Earlier this week, students at Phan Chu Trinh Secondary School (Ba Dinh district, Hanoi) experienced using the postal service, sending letters with stamps - something that is almost strange to today's generation of students. With the development of digital technology, handwritten letters sent by post are almost rare. Not only can students directly carry out the process of sending a letter to participate in the UPU letter writing contest in accordance with the regulations of the Organizing Committee, but they also have the opportunity to observe the process of receiving and exploiting letters by postal staff. electricity, learn about postage stamp sets with diverse topics, related to student ages. Another interesting point is that children can use the personal stamp printing service according to their needs.
Sharing about the meaning of this activity, teacher Nguyen Thanh Ha - Principal of Phan Chu Trinh Secondary School said that students not only understand the meaning of the UPU letter writing contest but also understand, appreciate and Grateful to postal workers who do quiet, simple jobs every day.
Nguyen Ngoc Lam Nhi (student of class 5A5, Tu Hiep Primary School, Thanh Tri district, Hanoi) said she has many times participated in experiential activities and field trips organized by the school. “My friends and I are all looking forward to the museum tours, visiting Uncle Ho's Mausoleum... The vivid history lessons are not only on the pages of books, in the stories told by adults, but we can see them directly. , get close, take photos to keep for a long time, that will be more deeply engraved in your memory than dry theoretical pages" - Nhi expressed.
In fact, most students are excited about experiential and unrestricted learning activities in the classroom space. However, not all experiential activities need to be organized outside of school and have a fee, because that will increase pressure on parents and is not in line with the goals of the 2018 General Education Program. when considering this as a "mandatory educational activity", regular, thorough, interconnected, integrated... Through life skills education activities, exchange sessions, and learning about diverse topics …will not only help students remember in practice but more importantly develop observation, perception and thinking skills; behaviors, feelings, emotional expressions...
Enhanced real-life experience
One of the new features in the 2018 New General Education Program is the appearance of experiential activities as a subject throughout grades 1 to 12 with the name "Experiential activities" at the secondary level. Elementary, middle school and "Experience - Career guidance" at high school level. Because each locality and school has its own circumstances and characteristics, the implementation of this activity will be assigned to each school, but the requirements still need to be met.
Associate Professor, Dr. Dinh Thi Kim Thoa - General Editor of the Education Program Experience and Experience - Career Guidance, General Education Program 2018 said that the Experience and Experience - Career Guidance activity is not evaluated by scores. . Instead, teachers base on the program's requirements to perform assessments in different forms. Students can be tested by planning and understanding their locality... In general, it is necessary to diversify different forms of assessment appropriate to the level of development of students after each stage. paragraph.
As for experiential education activities in the form of taking students on field trips, Ms. Thoa believes that this contributes to helping students have more memories, creating space for them to express themselves, have new emotions. “For this activity to truly be aimed at educational purposes instead of just being a paid trip, in my opinion, a lot of investment in effort, content preparation, and programming is needed before, during, and after the event. after the operation as well as control the entire program. If we just take the children to one location and let them operate freely, it is still an experiential activity but is ineffective and does not achieve the set goals of this activity" - Ms. Thoa said.
Sharing this opinion, Dr. Dang Huynh Mai - former Deputy Minister of Education and Training supports the fact that schools provide life skills education not only through core subjects but also combine many other contents, For example, harmonious coordination between school and society through diverse and rich experiential activities. In particular, Ms. Mai proposed that schools need to deploy teaching subjects such as Ethics and Citizenship Education in the direction of enhancing creative experiential activities, through which moral education and cultural lifestyle are taught. , life skills for students are more realistic.
