Hello everyone, I am Ta Nguyen, a lecturer in the Faculty of Information Technology, Lac Hong University, I have learned a lot of things during my 10 years of working as a lecturer, but the main field I teach is website development, some subjects such as Web Design, Web Programming, Web Administration, Open Source Software Development, Internet Marketing, E-Commerce, ...
On a beautiful day, I received a great opportunity from the EMVITET project (Empowering Vietnamese VET Teachers for Transformation Towards Education 4.0), which is a project to strengthen teachers' capacity to work towards education 4.0 and funded by Erasmus + a program of European Union. An opportunity for me to see first-hand about one of the world's leading education. On September 14, 2019, the Journey began, the journey to reach a higher level in my work.
Day #1
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I have seen new things ...
After 15 hours of flight and with 4 hours transit in Turkey, I arrived in Finland. The country with the world's leading education, we can say this is a journey to discover why they are so successful in education. With the first impression is the friendliness of the airport staff, their enthusiasm has brought us warmth even though it is 7 degrees Celsius outdoors. This is the first time we experience this cold weather like this, even though I knew in advance and prepared very well from home, it was inevitable that I was not adapting, but the air in here was extremely clean. On the way from the airport to the hostel, there are lots of trees and extremely good transportation infrastructure, these have brought in me a quite big initial impression in this country.
Finnish are so nice, they knew we had a long flight, so the next day everyone started working at 10am, they also went to the hotel to walk and lead us to campus. I was really impressed with the hospitality and the way they organized the project.
I have learned ...
From the beginning, we were told how they succeed in education, from a poor country that has become so developed thanks to education, which takes place in just a few decades in A country that doesn't have as many mineral resources as Finland.
This really made us ponder a lot and I wanted to document these factors in detail so that I and you, the readers, will do something to change for our country.
1. Student in the center- Trust in the student
- Trust in the learning process, learning takes time, but it happens
- Trust in a teachet: she/he is an autonomous professional
- Trust in teaching: It is effective, meaningful and it makes a difference
- Education is free at all level
- Everyone has an equal access to education - no dead ends
- Equal possiilities
- Every pupil and student has the right to educational support
- Special needs education is generally provided in conjuction with mainstream education
- Efforts are made for supporting language minorities and migrants
- Education is based on child's development
- The potential of every individual should be maximized
- Learners should experience success and joy of learning
- During the first school years it is important to play
- Learner centered pedagogy
- Pupils are encouraged to work together
- Learning by doing
- Assessment is part of daily schoolwork
- Pupils' capabilities for self-assessment are strongly supported
- No national tests (the matriculation examination the only one)
- Learners construct understanding
- New learning depends on current understanding
- Learning is facilitated by social interaction
- Meaningful learning occurs within authentic learning tasks
--> Focus on LEARNING process - Not just TEACHING
5. Active Students- Students ownership for their own learning is crucial
- They plan and assess their own learning
- They make choices
- They have responsibility
- They lead their learning
- Teachers as facilitators
- Feelings of competence relatedness and autonomy must be supported
- Learners need to experience that they are seen and heard as individuals - who they really are?
- Fundamental for motivation
- Team learning
- Peer assessment
- Students as tutors
- Peer learning is an essential resource of learning
- Social interaction promotes learning
- Focus on competencies - not traditional subjects/not contents
- Competence is a combination of
- Knowing - the theoretical knowledge - WHAT YOU KNOW?
- Doing - the practical knowledge - WHAT YOU CAN DO?
- Being - the self-regulative and socio-cultual knowledge - WHO YOU ARE? Or WHO YOU ARE BECOMING?
- Tool to reflect individual and collaborative learning
- Real world - learning tasks motivates the students, not just theory
- Classrooms are limited environments to learn competencies
- PBL - Phenomenom, Problem, Project based learning enables better competence development.
These are the things that have brought Finland's great success in education, thereby leading to the development of all aspects of their social and their life. Hopefully, within the short 3 weeks here, I will learn and discover a lot of things to be able to decipher why they succeed and why we have not reached such levels.
I think ...
What is special about the method they convey about these factors, we, the project participants, is divided into small groups of 4 based on the card we have chosen. We will stand from the factor number like in the card, and discuss together, asking any questions about that factor. After that, we will move on to the next factor and continue the discussion and ask questions, and so on until we have gone through all nine factors.
With such a discussion group organization that brings interest and clearly connections with learners, learners become truly involved in lesson development. And once the atmosphere of the classroom becomes more exciting with thinking together, expressing your personal views in the group will bring to mind the problem and the ability to think of each member.
A lesson in teaching method from the first session, along with an understanding of what makes Finnish education successful.
Besides, when I was able to visit the facilities of HAMK, I was really impressed with every design detail, everything was directed to students, creating an inspiring learning environment, a extremely comfortable study and work space.
It is true that studying and working in such an environment will bring a good result, because when you are inspired and feel the professional will motivate you seriously to study and work..
I will do ...
The first thing I thought I would to convey the message of their nine success factors, so that we, the people of education, could think together.
I intend to create a blog just to share the details of learner-centered teaching methods, methods to make the atmosphere of classroom more exciting, students will absorb the lesson. learn better. We will no longer have boring lectures, no stress, no pressure on class. To make teaching and learning really like trips, adventure of knowledge discovery, and together we can change this education to become more progressive, towards education 4.0.
But wait, what is education 4.0? This maybe me and you will find out together in the next time. See you in the following articles to continue exploring more great things ahead.
Ta Nguyen - LHU
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