Encourage open classrooms

With changes in classroom space, not only in traditional classrooms with blackboards and chalk, open classrooms can take place in soccer fields, canteens, schoolyards, libraries, subject classrooms... depending on the creative ideas of teachers, helping to create innovation and creativity.

Students of Trung Vuong Secondary School (Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi) study at the National Museum of History. Photo: NTCC.

Taking elective classes out of interest helps students participate in learning more actively and enthusiastically, making class time more exciting and effective.

From the 2022-2023 school year, Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted (HCMC) has implemented a very flexible dynamic classroom model where in the morning, students in each class study Math, Literature, and English in their own class according to a common timetable. In the afternoon, each student will move to classes of elective subjects according to their own wishes. Here, they will study the same subject with students from other classes and after that class, they will move to other classes according to their own timetable.

Ms. Pham Thi Be Hien - Principal of Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted said that the most difficult thing when implementing this dynamic class is to arrange the timetable for each student, how to make sure that their study schedule does not overlap with other subjects, how to make the teachers' teaching schedule harmonious, enough obligatory periods... But the biggest benefit is that students can register for their chosen subjects according to their abilities and interests. Studying in a shared class and a separate class also helps students improve their communication skills and proactively arrange their own timetable.

Recognizing this as a good model, the representative of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City also pointed out that to deploy it widely in all schools in Ho Chi Minh City is a big difficulty with a series of reasons as Le Hong Phong Specialized School has encountered. In particular, when each class has a large number of students, organizing dynamic classes like the above is even more challenging. The current solution implemented by high schools in Ho Chi Minh City and all general schools nationwide is to stipulate a combination of 3-4 hard subjects and then let students choose. This will lead to subjects that students do not like but still have to study. With the goal of creating conditions for students to develop their personal capacity to the maximum that the General Education Program (GDPT) 2018 is aiming for, the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City is asking schools to find solutions to gradually implement this model.

Meanwhile, many schools today have flexibly organized experiential learning hours for students in museums, historical sites, etc. so that students can learn in connection with reality, changing the lively classroom space to make them more excited. Not only that, right in the school where students are studying, open classes can also take place in the hall, the gym when studying Math, studying on the outdoor lawn during Literature class, learning English in the school garden with the topic of life around us, etc. In particular, these classes can invite parents and other teachers to attend to help parents better understand the teaching methods of teachers, see firsthand the interactions of their children with classmates, thereby supporting better learning at home.

According to Ms. Lam Hong Lam Thuy - Head of Primary Education Department, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training, the city's education sector encourages schools to organize open classes in many different forms. This is the fastest, most suitable and closest way for parents to approach and understand more about the 2018 General Education Program. When parents accompany the school, it will help achieve the goal of developing students' qualities and abilities. Parents coming to school will understand more and increase their trust in teachers, thereby improving school activities - which is also the goal of promoting happy schools.

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With many years of experience in the education sector, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Xuan Nhi - former Deputy Minister of Education and Training pointed out that in order to successfully innovate, management agencies also need to pay attention to supplementing the team to ensure effective implementation of the 2018 General Education Program, training and fostering knowledge, new teaching methods... for teachers who are working and have been working, boldly learning and researching, applying advanced classroom models such as open classrooms to the reality of their locality, school, and class. Overcoming the lack of facilities in disadvantaged areas to ensure educational equity for all students.

Source: https://daidoanket.vn/khuyen-khich-lop-hoc-mo-10295353.html