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  Research of Master Tran Vu LinhUS Vietnam Talent International School Teacher The subject History was often considered quite boring, “difficult” for many students because the amount of knowledge to remember is quite “massive” as well as the characteristics of the subject is difficult to associate with modern reality. Therefore, the teachers of History are constantly exploring and improving new and interesting teaching methods to help students acquire knowledge more effectively. And at UTS, the History teacher has implemented a very unique method: “Applying the art of shadow play in teaching History”. The application of shadow play to teaching, especially the teaching of History in high schools is very new. US Vietnam Talent International School is the first international school in Ho Chi Minh City to pioneer the introduction of shadow play into teaching history and initially achieve encouraging results. The project “Applying the art of shadow play in history teaching” was implemented for the first time in the 2020-2021 school year with the participation of 34 students in grades 10 and 11. After 2 months of implementation, the students completed four works with the content of two themes: “Resistance against foreign invaders from the 10th-15th century” and “World War”. These are the first works, which uts teachers and students devote a lot of enthusiasm and investment both in form and content. Although the knowledge and experience of shadow play is still limited, the products the students create are still extremely impressive and convey the story and historical context as the theme.   The goal of the learning project is to both stick to the standard of knowledge, while aiming to build an exciting training space for History and learn the specific skills of shadow play. Therefore, while writing the shadow play script, the students need to ensure the following

In recent years, the education sector in general and schools have made great efforts to reform the quality of teaching and learning in the natural sciences. With the teaching philosophy of putting Students at the Center”, the US Vietnam Talent International School has applied the method “Hands-on” at the high school level to help students be independent, creative, take initativesinitiatives and solve problems. Besides, this method also helps teachers improve the quality of teaching.  “Hands-on” methodology is the way the teacher organizes for students to self-study to find solutions to the knowledge in the curriculum through proposing, discussing, and performing experiments.  The steps to organizing classes according to this method include:  Stage 1: The starting situation and the question raises the issue.  Teachers will proactively set a starting or questionable situation as a starting point to the lesson. The foreboding circumstances are brief, close to students and practice making questions raises the issue at the same time.  Problem question which is the big question of the lesson itself (or module of knowledges that students will be taught) need to ensure suitable to students’ level, arouse curiosity and researching interest of the students to equip them with studious psych sphere before perceiving sciolism.  Teachers should use open questions instead of closed ones (Yes-No question) in terms of problem questions. It also must meet all the requirements that were mentioned before, so that the teaching scheme of the teachers will be more successful.     Stage 2: Expressing the beginning opinions of students   In this stage, teachers will encourage the students to express thoughts and raise their awareness before learning new things. To raise the starting conception from the students, teachers can request their students to remind the previous lessons that alike with knowledge of the current lesson. When requesting students to express the started awareness, students can

  May 15th is selected by United Nations as the International Day of Families when family members can connect to each other and raise awareness about families’ issues. At UTS, we also have a family of big sisters, brothers in High School and lovely younger ones in Primary School. UTS-ers always take care as well as help each other if necessary, without distinction of age. The “Love Giving” stories-telling project is an activity which helps strengthen the connection among students at UTS. Students of Primary School usually listen to stories told by their Parents before sleeping. To bring the familiar and cozy feelings to Primary School students, Grade 10 UTS-ers visited classes, spent time telling short stories and then gave mini gifts to their juniors before the sleeping period. This project helped UTS-ers prove event organizing, presenting and detailed planning skills. Besides, this is an occasion for UTS big family to take care of each other which proves the contribution spirit – one of six core values of UTS-ers.

Nowadays, for people to keep up with the world’s continuous developing pace and become a knowledgeable, helpful citizen, reading has become a bridge connecting our current knowledge to the outside world. Reading is a pathway for students to form their self-learning conscious and retrieve knowledge in the best way possible. From there, our young generations can develop lifelong learning skills and promote a great mentality. However, with our Technology and Society’s extensive development on the rise, consistent reading habits from people are starting to decrease. Social media is a contributing factor competing against the norms with their catchy interfaces, it is like a breath of fresh air to the young generations. The youngsters experience the ease, spontaneity and latest news on these apps, all of which makes the reading-from-a-book habit seem boring and soon to be forgotten. Understanding this current perspective, UTS’s Primary teachers’ team is holding a range of activities to elicit and bring out the joy of reading for the students. Each week, students get excited about the Reading session in the school’s library. This seems like “a new land” for students to seek adventures inside the books’ pages. With our project “Connecting knowledge”, students have gone through many interesting, beneficial activities to nurture their love for reading.       1. Designing Bookmark activity: With the theme of “Inspiring” through every book page, students designed their own creative bookmarks, along with positive, encouraging messages to themselves. In addition, UTSer’s is also shown their creativity and ingenuity through each funny and cute product.       2. Designing Book cover activity: In this activity, students are able to select one of the choices: recreating the cover of their favorite comic or designing a new cover for a storybook they have read before. All of the students were incredibly

At UTS we believe that every kid is a “unique seed” who deserves to grow up in his or her own way. We understand that our students need to be given the opportunity to learn in a way that is suitable for them while also respecting the differences in styles from our peers. Besides, not everyone is keen on traditional learning method. This motivate UTS to apply the “Experiential Learning”(ExL) to the curriculum, providing an alternative to traditional learning models, and here we will share many highlights of the “Experiential Learning” method with parents and students. 1. What is Experiential Learning? At its simplest, experiential learning (ExL) is the process of obtaining information and learning through experience, and can be further stripped down to simply be “learning through reflection on doing” (Patrick 2011: 1003). Unlike the ” hands-on learning “, ExL formally requires reflection, whereas hands-on learning is simply the act of doing something. ExL theory is different from other theories of learning, such as cognitive and behavioral learning, insofar as it is a much more holistic approach. It takes into account all of our experiences in our learning, including emotions, cognition, and environmental factors. It advocates for more depth in learning, rather than surface-level learning. Surface-level learning involves things like studying for an exam or memorizing information from a textbook – often this information is not retained well and is easily and commonly forgotten after the test. In contrast, deep learning typically involves learning a topic from multiple angles and approaches, from reading and experimenting to role-playing and discussion. 2. How the ExL model works? Operational model of the “Experiential learning” method 2.1: Experiencing: This can be a completely new experience or a re-imagining of an experience that has already happened. In each specific experience, you will each participate

A special academic year has ended with many memorable milestones. On the morning of May 27th, UTS-ers of US Vietnam Talent International School together ended the 2021-2022 academic year with an emotional closing ceremony. It can be said that this is a challenging year when the impact of covid 19 epidemic last for more than one semester, both teachers and students can only meet each other through a computer screen. However, the hard work, resilience and care of the UTS community, from students, teachers, staff and parents have turned every difficulty into the most amazing moments and brilliant achievements. A year is encapsulated in a few hours, but the knowledge, experience and sharing of the UTS community will surely accompany us on a meaningful journey of “growing talent with care”!  

In order for a plant to grow healthy, it certainly needs to be cared in the most appropriate and optimal environment. Children too, in order to be stable in the future, they need to be nurtured in the right environment. Understanding this, many families always want to invest in their children’s learning space at home to be more optimal, helping them have a comfortable and most suitable environment to grow up. So what is the best space for your child? Let’s discover here. Benefits of a suitable environment for children Many research on children around the world have proven that children living in a good environment will have more comprehensive physical and mental development. For example, a living environment close to nature creates conditions for children to increase physical activity, reduce eye diseases, obesity, respiratory or mental disorders. This is the reason motivating us to build Botanique Campus – a green school with open space and close to nature. Besides, the open living space with experiential activities is the premise to promote the intellectual development of children. Limiting exposure to electronic devices and instead having parents and children experience practical activities in art or scientific research will help children develop creativity and flexible thinking. So what is a suitable environment?  Here are six important environmental factors that affect a child’s growth: 1. Ensure security and safety Children’s nature is curious, they like to discover new things, so sometimes just because a few minutes of parents’ neglect, there will be situations that affect the safety of their children. Therefore, parents should choose apartments or houses with CCTV cameras, design infrastructure to ensure rescue, emergency exits, fire prevention, etc. to help quickly handle unexpected incidents that occur. . Notes on security and safety will never be superfluous so that parents can rest

National Program at UTS:  The National Program is a standard program under the new curriculum framework of the Ministry of Education and Training for all levels of education. At UTS, this program is more optimized and focused on practice to help students master general knowledge, effectively apply learned knowledge and skills to life. Besides, UTS likewise equip students with essential knowledge and skills so that can choose appropriate future careers and lifelong learning as well as understand how to build and grow in harmony with social relationships, freely express oneself and enrich spiritual life. Teaching Methods UTS students have access to the optimized National High School program through many methods: project-based class, inquiry based class, reversed class, etc. These are modern methods which are studied to bring higher efficiency than traditional learning methods. As a result, students acquire knowledge more actively, arouse their passion for learning and discovery. Moreover, students will more effectively grasp the focus of each subject. In addition, several UTS learning projects connect multiple subjects, giving students not only the opportunity to study each subject individually, but also to link interdisciplinary knowledge and apply it in practice. UTS operates concurrently the National High School Program with the International Program and the Growing Talent Program; it provides students with lessons associated with traditional Vietnamese values, assists them in appreciating and promoting traditional features in the community, and encourages students to become global citizens who are always prepared for future changes. Let’s take a look at the outstanding classes in the last 2021-2022 school year! 1.  “Ao dai of Vietnamese” Project – Vietnamese Class – Grade 5 This is a project about Vietnamese traditional ao dai in Vietnamese class 5 by Ms. Bich Quy. By practical application to theory, they temporarily left  the familiar school uniform and instead  put

We thought the summer break would be long, but looking back, it’s already the first day of school. The first morning of the new school year 2022-2023 took place with a lot of emotions and gorgeous smiles of UTS–ers at the 2 campuses, UTS Van Lang Complex and UTS Botanique Campus. To welcome the old students back to school and especially welcome the new students to the close-knit UTS community, our enthusiastic teachers and school staff had planned and prepared a lot for this special day.  It was joyful to see the students and their families happily keeping memories at the school’s photo areas. Especially, right from the gate, students were warmly welcomed by their teachers and guided to their classrooms.   In the first lesson, the students were led by their homeroom teacher to explore the school’s campus and facilities. This is also a special activity to help them get to know their classmates and teachers. The students had a good time sharing their interests with their friends or telling their teachers about a fun summer they had.   Lunch time was well organized with the cooperation of the students and the help of the classroom support staff. New students quickly became familiar with the process of taking food vouchers and eating utensils, receiving food, and returning trays after meals correctly.  Afternoon classes with interesting lessons to help students get used to the learning environment and engagement in the classroom. This is also an opportunity for teachers to listen to the academic goals of students this school year.  The new school year 2022-2023 has officially started! After the back-to-school day, there will be a series of meaningful activities during the first week of school to bring joy and cohesion to UTS-ers and especially new students. We hope that all students will have a fun