1-4. SCHOOL GENERAL INFORMATION AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION/PEDAGOGICAL CONTENTS/TEACHING PLAN/OBSERVATIONS ON TEACHER(S)
1.1 - School Profile
ALL ABOUT TRUONG TUONG LAI (FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL)
- Future Primary School is a private learning institution located at 228 Pham Huu Lau, Phurong 4, Cao Lanh City, Dong Thap, Vietnam. This school served as our practicum school, introduced by our host university, the Dong Thap University.
b. Contact Information
- Truong Tuong Lai, also known as Future Primary School, can be reached out by their following contact details.
- Website: future.edu.vn
- School's official hotline: 02776566566
c. The School's Vision
- School of the Future - Educational Perspective
"For every individual, education is the foundation for personal and talent development. For a society, education is the measure of development and the driving force for progress."
School of the Future, as its name suggests, embodies the aspirations of everyone here for the future. With the intention of fundamentally changing the way Future Primary School prepare children for life for the first time, a comprehensive school from kindergarten to high school is present in Dong Thap with the involvement and expectations of everyone, both nationally and internationally. All preparations regarding human resources, infrastructure, organizational processes, educational content, and teaching methods revolve around a single goal: to shape a generation of students who are well-cared for and develop comprehensively to be able to "BE THEMSELVES" by maximizing their potential and abilities according to their desires, as specifically outlined through five outcome criteria: knowledge, skills, emotions, health and talents.
d. School's Viewpoint on Education
- Education is the foundation for personal and talent development for every individual. For a society, education is both a measure of development and a driving force for progress.
1.2- Academic Support System
- Aiming to create a healthy educational environment, where each student is respected and guaranteed the best conditions to maximize their potential, the School of the Future operates according to the model of a comprehensive school. Particularly, English and German are introduced in teaching and learning within the school as a second language that can be applied in communication alongside the Vietnamese language. In this regard, the school ensures the principle of educating students with the capacity to adapt when accessing different educational systems while preserving the traditional cultural identity of the nation. these teaching programs provide a solid foundation, ensuring that students who wish to continue their studies at public schools in the area or international schools can do so. additionally, in the field of health education, the school closely collaborates with an international hospital with various specialties and treatment areas to achieve the best health education goals for students.
1.3 - Teaching System
- With the aim of creating a healthy educational environment where every student is respected and ensured the best conditions to maximize their potential, Truong Tuong Lai operates according to the model of an inter-level school, offering all levels of education from preschool to high school. It is designed and implemented to fully meet their educational goals.
- In terms of knowledge, students not only receive education based on the standard curriculum of the Ministry of Education and Training but also learn from the extended/supplementary curriculum of Future Primary School. In the field of language education, students learn two foreign languages, English and German, in the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking according to international standards. Their mother tongue is also used as an effective communication tool in learning and daily life. In the field of science and technology education, the school applies the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) teaching program (based on the teaching program of Cambridge Primary School in UK) which includes database, email, presentations, spreadsheets and word processing, utilizing ICT through computers, programming toys, digital cameras, and broadcasting. In the field of aesthetic education, the school focuses on an extended talent program including Drama and Film, Dance, expanded Music subjects such as Music Appreciation, Vocal Music and Instrumental Performance, Fine Arts and Sculpture, and Physical Education and Sports including swimming, chess, shuttlecock kicking, soccer and basketball. Encompassing all these areas, the school has researched and applied the STEAM education model, an integrated teaching model that incorporates the five subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, aiming to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills related to the aforementioned educational fields. These knowledge and skills need to be integrated, interconnected and complemented to help students not only understand the principles but also to apply them to create products in their daily lives.
1.4 - Materials and Other Learning Sources
Accordingly, the school invests in infrastructure and equipment to provide strong support for the teaching and learning activities of teachers and students. In terms of overall facility layout, the school has modernly designed buildings to meet the needs of learning, activities and training for approximately 2,000 students and the team of specialists, teachers, and managers. This includes the main classrooms, functional rooms such as Music, English, Fine Arts, Computer Science, Physical Education, Theater Film and Library. Additionally, there are public facilities such as a swimming pool, sports field, internal road system, coffee bookshop, and tree library.
In terms of classroom learning, they use different materials to cope every need of their students. They have textbooks, workbooks, and they also use sources online to support their teaching and learning processes.
1.5 - Measurement and Evaluation System
"Being oneself" is the goal of Truong Tuong Lai School, with the purpose of developing a generation of students who are complete in terms of personality and maximizing their desired potentials. This goal is concretized and realized in each individual students through criteria such as knowledge, skills, emotions, health and talents throughout the education process. It is the guiding perspective for the overall strategic vision, content, and implementation methods of the school in terms of educational programs, teaching and learning methods, assessment and evaluation, infrastructure, operational procedures, and an essential element-teachers.
To ensure that students are taught according to the standard curriculum of the Ministry of Education, independent semester examinations are conducted under the supervision of the managing authority. Monthly evaluation results are attached to traditional communication notebooks for parents to follow up.
1.6 - Curriculum
The curriculum content and teaching methods of the school are designed and implemented to fully meet educational goals. Specifically, the educational content includes programs according to the current regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, supplementary programs and talent programs.
1.7 - Teaching Plan
I choose English as a subject to teach at Future Primary School because I prefer this subject among anything else. In terms of this, here are the teaching plans/lesson plans that I used during my 4-days demonstration teaching there.
First Day Demo -Teaching: The Senses
2.1 - Teaching Methods
Future Primary School is enabling of customizing and individualizing teaching methods according to the school's objectives and principles of education. Accordingly, the content of the curriculum and teaching methods of the school are designed and implemented to fully meet the educational goals. Specifically, the educational content includes programs according to the current regulations of the ministry of Education and Training, supplementary programs, and talent programs. In particular, English and German are taught and learned in the school as a second language, which can be applied in communication like the Vietnamese language. In educating students with the necessary adaptability to approach different educational systems while preserving the traditional cultural identity of the nation. These teaching programs served as a solid foundation, ensuring that students who wish to continue their studies at public schools in the area of international schools are well-prepared.
2.2 - Learning Materials and Innovation
Future Primary School uses innovative tools and equipment such as flat screen T.V's, online learning books and materials, white boards, customized board magnets for categorizing or group activities, power point slides and online workbooks that is very effective in teaching and learning process. Moreover, they also have, well-ventilated classrooms in order for the teacher and students to be comfortable inside their learning sanctuaries due to hot weather Vietnam is experiencing nowadays.
2.3 - Sources of Learning and Technology
The school, from doing direct teaching as the knowledge is coming right away from the teacher itself, they also use textbooks and learning materials online, using internet as their primary source of concrete information and ideas to cope up in this modernized era of teaching. Also, the school has a library to preserve the traditional way of acquiring immense knowledge as students can also rely to books and other materials that is applicable for them to use.
2.4 - Authentic Assessment
The students are assessed on their level of understanding and interest in each subject through two-way communication, competitions, mainly focusing on assessing development to provide guidance and support, rather than placing excessive exam pressure on them. Also, they apply the knowledge and skills standards issued by the Ministry of Education and Training. For objectives not included in the national Curriculum framework, the school establishes evaluation criteria.
2. 5 - Others
a. Educational Objectives
- To form a generation of students who are well-rounded in personality and maximize their potential, with the slogan "Be Myself" through five criteria:
- Providing KNOWLEDGE
- Developing SKILLLS
- Enhancing PHYSICAL FITNESS
- Nurturing EMOTIONS
- Unleashing TALENTS
- Building diverse and flexible teaching programs that combine the general curriculum of the Ministry of Education with talent development programs, skill training, and health care based on advanced models from the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Germany to help students achieve the set development goals.
- Applying the current framework of the national general education curriculum of the Ministry of Education and Training.
- Expanded activities: school health programs, nutrition education, emotional nurturing, talent development.
- Extra-curricular activities: life skills training program.
- Foreign language instruction: English is a mandatory subject, following the Cambridge standard and focusing on three main subjects: Language, Math-English, Science-English.
c. Educational Methods
- Lesson planning and teaching methods: Applying integrated methods, teaching based on themes and situations, to help students develop self-learning abilities, group learning, and practical application of acquired knowledge.
- Teaching methods: Customizing and individualizing teaching methods according to the school's objectives and principles of education.
3. 1 - Curriculum
3.2 Teaching Plan Related to Your Major
 LESSON PLAN |
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Student-Teacher’s Name: Annie Loraine F. Eva
Date: 22/05/2023 Class: 2Y
Subject: English Unit: 1.4
Lesson: 2-The Senses
I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the pupils will be able to:
a. Identify the five senses;
b. determine the purpose of each sense, and
c. respond to “what” questions.
II. Subject Matter:
A. Topic: The Senses: "Information questions with What"
B. Reference: Everybody Up 2nd Edition (Student Book and Workbook)
C. Author: Kathleen Kampa and Charles Vilina
D. Pages: SB pp. 10-11, WB pp. 10-11
Materials: Power point Presentation
III. Learning Activities:
Activity 1: Vibe with Me!
- Show them a video.
- Give instructions.
- Make them sing and vibe with the video.
Activity 2: Tell Me About Senses!
- Show them pictures of the senses.
- Give instructions.
- Make the pupils tell something about the following human senses.
- Give feedback.
Activity 3: Fill in the Blanks!
1. I use my _______ to smell the flowers in the garden.
2. With the use of my __________, I can taste delicious foods!
3. I use my ________ to see beautiful places around me.
4. I can enjoy listening to music with the use of my ________.
5. With the use of my __________, I can touch and carry things.
- Present to them the pictures of the five senses.
- Give instructions.
- Make the pupils complete the sentences with the use of the pictures as their guide.
- Give positive compliments.
Activity 4: Guess the Pictures!
- Divide the students into two. Each group is entitled to do the game.
- Show them different pictures.
- Give instructions.
- Make the pupils guess the kind of senses used in every picture.
- The group that will gain the highest points will be the winner.
- Give rewards.
I. Evaluation (10 minutes)
Ask the pupils to answer the following questions by giving the correct answers based on the given choices.
1. What is the use of eyes?
I use my eyes to _________________.
a. smell b. see c. touch
2. What is the use of the nose?
I use my nose to _________________.
a. hear b. smell c. see
3. What is the use of ears?
I use my ears to _________________.
a. touch b. hear c. taste
4. What is the use of the tongue?
I use my tongue to _______________.
a. taste b. smell c. see
5. What is the use of hands?
I use my hands to ________________.
a. taste b. touch c. hear
II. Assignment (optional)
The teacher may or may not give assignments.
Documentations during my practicum discussing "The Senses" (May 22,2023)
4. OBSERVATION ON TEACHER(S)
- In regards with teaching planning, the teacher is no longer using lesson plans or preparing standardized lesson plans ahead of their teaching schedules. The teacher only focuses on studying the textbooks and workbooks given to them by the school's management in order to have prior knowledge about the lessons they are going to teach during class days.
4.2 - Preparing Lessons and Materials
- The teacher uses virtual instructional materials such as power point presentation and T.V in implementing their teaching structures. The lesson is composed of four activities and one evaluation, done continuously during the conduct of the lesson.
4. 3 - Teaching in Class
4.4 - Measurement and Evaluation
- As stated in the previous category above, the learning of the students during the conduct of the lesson is measured through the use of evaluation sheets or worksheets. The students will be given an exact time to work with their tests depending on its mode of difficulties and the latter will check their answers, count the number of scores and give positive feedbacks afterwards.
4.5 - Others
- In terms of classroom management, the teacher implements classroom rules and behaviors in the beginning of the lesson, keep in touch with the student's interests all throughout
the discussion, and maintain their focus on the lesson especially in doing group activities. When the students cannot be managed already by their teacher, the teacher will talk to them using their own dialect, give rewards to those who behaves so everyone will follow.
- My critic teacher is also a Filipina, namely Ms. Ana Lagrosa from Quezon City. Ms. Ana has Vietnamese Teacher-Assistants who are also the advisers of every class she teaches everyday. The role of the teacher of the teacher-assistants is to translate Ms. Ana's phrases into Vietnamese language in some circumstances when necessary and to help her manage the students during classes.
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