Many suggestions on teaching methods from the learner's perspective

Professor Dang Canh Khanh (Director of the Institute for Traditional and Development Studies) is sharing on the topic "Students' value orientation in the current period"

Need to recognize and have correct assessments of learners

In his lecture on the topic "Students' Value Orientation in the Current Period", Professor Dang Canh Khanh (Director of the Institute for Traditional and Development Studies) emphasized the transformation of today's youth. According to him, talking about today's youth means mentioning keywords such as creative, new, different people, eager to strive, break old rules...

According to Professor Dang Canh Khanh, educating young people means not stuffing too much knowledge into their heads, but always leaving gaps in their knowledge so that they can easily connect the knowledge they already know and absorb new, necessary knowledge.

From a psychological perspective, Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc (Head of the Department of Counseling Psychology, Faculty of Psychology) again gave important suggestions on the issue of approaching students' ethical behavior in stages. According to the Professor, when considering students' behavior, there should be specific assessments of the level of development of students' behavior and ethics.

Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc gave many suggestions on the current students' learning mindset such as: Students are adults, we should encourage them to self-develop their learning and research. Moreover, students have good cognitive abilities, so we can expand their knowledge, let's open up the basic theoretical knowledge linked to practical applications.

Combine different experiences of students to give students definitions, this will help students remember the problem for a long time. Always encourage students to speak up, what students say is more important than whether they are right or wrong. When participating with lecturers, psychology will certainly be confused, find out and motivate students to overcome it. This promotion can be based on appropriate methods, ensuring the organization is suitable for the psychology of that group of subjects, Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc shared.

According to Dr. Ton Quang Cuong (Head of the Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Education), which method is appropriate is only correct when placed in the system: who are the learners, what do they need? How do we understand the learners? How do they learn?...

According to Dr. Ton Quang Cuong, teaching is essentially about us accompanying the learner so that the learner can do something. That is applying the content and practice, which is different from letting the learner repeat what we teach.

In the topic "Some current university teaching methods and the effectiveness of applying those methods", Dr. Ton Quang Cuong also introduced some current teaching methods such as problem-based teaching, discovery learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning...

Dr. Ton Quang Cuong (Head of the Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Education), shares about some current teaching methods

Many solutions from the learner's perspective

Ms. Thuy Hang (Faculty of Philosophy) raised the issue ofdifficulties in conveying concepts in theoretical subjects such as philosophy?

Dr. Ton Quang Cuong (Head of the Faculty of Pedagogy, University of Education) shared: today's learners are very smart. With the quintessential knowledge of basic science, we should apply it to reality, take examples linked to reality to inspire learners.

Sharing the hardships of students who have just entered university, but have to approach theoretical and dry subjects. According to Dr. Ton Quang Cuong, it would be more appropriate to transfer some of these subjects to the third year semesters. This opinion also received many negative responses from delegates in the discussion.

Share aboutThe difficulty in credit classes when students come from many different courses, leading to different psychology, so which method is suitable, Ms. Lien (Faculty of Philosophy) wondered?

According to Professor Tran Thi Minh Duc: It is impossible to distribute knowledge equally among the students in the class. To solve this problem, lecturers should discuss with students about the target audience of the subject - which year students are suitable for this subject, what knowledge foundations are required... Other students who do not meet these requirements need to try very hard to be able to follow this subject.

Of course, lecturers should also keep a list of junior students who are not suitable for the target group to have notes to help and encourage them to ask more questions. This assessment is only relative, because students' abilities are different, Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc shared.

Mr. Tan (Faculty of Linguistics) shared: Many students havepsychology does not understand what to study this subject for - especially basic science subjects. So how to impact and change the thinking and actions of students?

Analyzing the psychology of students, Dr. Nguyen Quang Lieu (Department of Politics and Student Affairs) shared: The psychology of students goes through 6 stages: from fear to hesitation -> acceptance -> voluntary -> interest -> passion; while for staff, the psychological process is from forced -> voluntary -> passion for teaching. The final destination is the passion of the teacher, promoting the passion of the student.

Lecturers must pay attention to the introductory chapter of the lesson, because this chapter provides the subject, tasks, meaning and teaching methods of the subject. This chapter helps students have a comprehensive view of the subject, which many teachers still lack.

Furthermore, during the teaching process, the core contents should be emphasized, because they are very important and meaningful to students. Attend a variety of classes to distill your own experiences, Dr. Nguyen Quang Lieu shared.

Mr. Thanh Tung (Faculty of Political Science) shared his experience in teaching: Students often pay attention to 3 cases: lecturers telling funny stories; content related to the exam and content related to the student's future life. SoHow much is enough in the third content, related to the actual work of students in the future??

According to Professor Dang Canh Khanh, lecturers need to harmonize qualitative and quantitative knowledge, and then apply it appropriately to their lectures. Avoid getting too carried away with external knowledge content and forgetting to provide the necessary background knowledge.

Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc has more flexible suggestions on this issue. According to the Professor, students have different backgrounds, with first-year students, lecturers can introduce many career suggestions, while final-year students focus more on equipping knowledge and skills.

With the problems of life, before the lecturer provides knowledge, he/she needs to see the responses of the students. Students must have enough knowledge and understanding to be able to provide the knowledge needed for life. According to Professor Tran Thi Minh Duc, a teacher who cannot find interest in the subject will find it difficult to convey good lessons.

Prof. Dr. Tran Thi Minh Duc (Head of the Department of Counseling Psychology, Faculty of Psychology) shared at the seminar

Ms. Huong (Faculty of Oriental Studies) classified the students in the class into 3 groups: active, shy and indifferent to the learning content. The lecturer tried many measures to stimulate learning of the shy and indifferent groups, but the change was not obvious in the learning environment. However, the results of monitoring after graduation, all 3 groups of students had good jobs, good skills,So is the method that the lecturer gives good? Is there any way to quantify the effectiveness of the teaching method??

Explaining this issue, Dr. Ton Quang Cuong put forward the argument that "it is not certain that students who participate in learning well have good motivation and vice versa". The manifestation of student participation is very diverse, in a group, it is difficult to maintain interest in all, lecturers should aim to do their best to be able to promote the best learning environment for students.

Sharing the same opinion, Professor Tran Thi Minh Duc also gave an illustrative example of "how many people does it take to move a potato if it doesn't want to move", lecturers should not feel too guilty about that problem.

"Of course, the learner is never at fault, the fault lies only with the teacher. Lecturers do not have to convey their own knowledge but need to convey what students need, so the method is very important," said Mr. Phan Kien (Faculty of Journalism and Communication).

Contrary to Mr. Kien's point of view, Mr. Nguyen Quang Lieu has a point of view on harmonizing the knowledge of lecturers with the needs of students. According to Mr. Lieu, before talking about the attitude of students, we need to pay attention to the attitude of lecturers. Mr. Nguyen Quang Lieu said, "Teachers want students to be serious, first of all, teachers need to be an example of seriousness. As for students, they always like to study, because studying is to solve future problems, is the source of food and money in life later on."