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  With many expectations from audiences who love the drama “Make friends with the sky”, Teo and his beloved friends will come back to bring us their innocent and lovely stories on the professional stage. The detailed information about the next performance of the drama “Make friends with the sky” with participation of UTS’ little actors: – Time: 20:00, Saturday, April 24th, 2021; – Location: Youth Cutural Housse, No.4 Pham Ngoc Thach, District 1, HCMC. For further information about this performance, Parents and students can contact via hotline: 0868051068 – 0915773887. Let’s support the next big stage of our UTS-ers!

  April 22nd is selected by the United Nations General Assembly as the International Mother Earth Day. With the atmosphere of this special occasion, UTS community wore green costumes to school together. The UTS campus is covered by green color with many messages about keeping awareness about maintaining and developing the natural environment around us. Within today, students of Primary School launched a meaningful activity in the project “For everyone’s health”. UTS-ers shared about the values of environment and encourage their friends and teachers to limit using single-used plastic to protect our ecosystem. The colorful stickers on the board were commits of UTS community for the sustainable development of the World, especially about the environment protection. Not just on this day, let’s raise awareness about maintaining the green – clean – beautiful environment every day. The richness of the Earth is the primary condition for human beings to build up more meaningful things in the future.

  After a year of launching, “Humans of UTS” – a special project for members of UTS community – has been bringing many lovely stories about the nurturing and developing journey of future talents. It may be Bao Duy – a boy with a big artistic dream, Quy Tran – a little girl with non-limited passion with English or miss Maria with memorable moments at UTS, etc. Behind each picture is an untold lovely story. These sharings may become precious memories and belief for us to complete ourselves and take a further step in the open future ahead. “Humans of UTS” will continuously undertake our mission to be a “story teller” to bring stories, memories or simply lovely moments of our talents at UTS. For UTS-ers, are you ready to share your own stories? The photo contest “UTS – 365 THE GROWTH” is waiting to see for your photos and listen to your stories in the school year 2020 – 2021! The detailed information about the photo contest: “UTS – 365 THE GROWTH”: http://bit.ly/UTS365THEGROWTH  

One more school year is about to pass with countless precious memories of the UTS community. Each day of studying and playing at UTS gives students positive energy and memorable moments with friends. Let’s look back on the journey of smiles at UTS over the past year and together get strength to successfully complete the Term II exam ahead! And UTS-ers also do not forget the photo contest “UTS – 365 THE GROWTH” is still waiting for lovely stories and pictures filled with joy from the UTS community! Details of the photo contest: http://bit.ly/UTS365THEGROWTH.

  Visual intelligence is one of the eight types of human intelligence, helping us imagine numerous objects, develop strong visual memory and artistic tendency. At UTS, the students in grade 8.2 can grow this special type of intelligence through the lesson “The World in our Eyes”. The special thing in this lesson is the combination of English and painting. Students will draw their world through their point of view, then present it in English so that everyone can better understand that picture. Each painting shows their unique thought as well as an opportunity to practice their English-speaking skills in front of many people. This exciting class requires UTS-ers a source of vocabulary to be able to explain their world. UTS-ers can also maximize the observation ability which will create plentiful visions about issues of life.

  After one month, the “UTS – 365 THE GROWTH” photo contest has officially ended with prizes for classes which have the highest voting results. Congratulations: First Prize – Class 8.2 Second Prize – Class 7.1 và Class 9.1 Third Prize – Class 1.3, Class 2.3 and Class 3.2 The Impressive Photo Prize – Class 1.5 Thank all 25 classes of UTS who participated in the “UTS – 365 THE GROWTH” photo contest. Through these lovely photos, we can see the development and growth of UTS-ers day by day with many learning and experiential activities. UTS remember our remarkable moments during the last school year so much. Let’s take care of ourselves and be ready for the missions ahead!

  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

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