STUDENT - CENTERED EDUCATION APPROACH OF THE VIETNAMESE - AMERICAN DUAL DIPLOMA PROGRAM

What are the advantages of student-centered teaching methods? Let's find out the factors to ensure when applying the student-centered teaching method.

1. What is the student-centered teaching method?

The essence of the student-centered educational method is to create a different learning environment with different activities, creating conditions for each child to have the opportunity to develop himself, to meet the needs and needs of children. children's interest in the educational process. At the primary school level, children's main activity is "learning through play, playing through learning", so teachers need to build a variety of activities, helping children to both acquire knowledge around and create excitement. learning for children.
Child-centered educational methods help children develop comprehensively.

The purpose of primary education is to help children develop comprehensively in all aspects: physical, intellectual, boldly confident, arouse and develop children's hidden talents. However, each child is a different individual, with different family conditions, living environment, physical... Therefore, each child will have different abilities and interests in learning. Based on these factors, a student-centered teaching method was born, meeting the different needs of each student.

The Vietnamese American dual diploma program is applying the student-centered teaching method, which has many advantages, not only for students but also for teachers and parents.

2. Advantages of student-centered teaching methods

2.1. For students

At the Vietnamese-American dual diploma program, teaching is student-centered through many forms of learning such as teamwork, pairwork, students are allowed to discuss and give their own views and based on lesson knowledge to protect their own points, and at the same time convince others. From there, the children have the ability to develop themselves, more interested in learning.

Students develop life skills through student-centered teaching methods

In fact, the application of student-centered educational methods has opened up many new learning spaces for children. Examples of student-centeredness include: Letting children express their feelings through the lesson, suggesting topics for children to compose poems, songs, songs, dances, or simply teachers. If she creates many opportunities for children to participate in those activities, the teachers have helped children develop awareness, thinking, and creativity. In addition, it also helps children develop language, communication ability, artistic talent.

2.2. For teachers

Teachers are the ones who directly teach and design lessons suitable for each student. This helps teachers improve their skills, professional style, and promote creativity in the form of classroom organization for students.

In addition, thanks to these diverse activities, teachers can clearly understand the personality of each student in the class, thereby having more suitable teaching methods for children.

2.3. For parents

Parents will cooperate more closely in educating children. Thereby, parents will understand the importance of student-centered educational methods and change the way to teach their students better, in accordance with the personality of each child.

3. Factors to be ensured in the student-centered teaching method

The student-centered teaching method needs to ensure the following two factors:

• Families and schools need to work closely in educating children, helping children develop their strengths, respecting the interests and abilities of each child. Above all, families and schools need to have faith and create the best opportunities and conditions to help children develop comprehensively.
• Currently, there are many effective teaching methods for children, in which creative play activities are the most popular. Understanding that the teachers of the Vietnamese-American dual diploma program are always conscious of building activities based on what children know and can do, and have educational plans appropriate to the child's development level.

Today, the student-centered method is one of the educational methods of the new era that is applied by many schools. In order to help students develop to their fullest potential, the most important thing is that parents cooperate with the school to understand their children better, thereby applying appropriate teaching methods.

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