03/10/2023 Make Learning Fun and Effective - A Journey of Inspiration Let’s read the story about teacher Luong Thi Huong, who is using the Learning through Play approach to make learning geography more fun and engaging for her students in Vietnam.
20/11/2022 Short story: Who Built The Railroad Today is an exciting day in class! In the construction corner, Hoa is building houses and making some roads with her friends. In the kitchen corner, Tùng, Khánh and their classmates are making bread to feed the construction group. At one point, Khánh even runs to Ms. Huệ’s spot to invite her to try...
20/11/2022 Teachers in Vietnam bring play to the classroom To support the Vietnamese government with implementing the new curriculum, VVOB Vietnam developed the iPLAY project to integrate Learning through Play in primary education. The context and timing of the Ministry of Education’s shift to a competency-based education model aligned well with the...
30/09/2022 "You have to see every child as an individual" Helping teachers embrace a new way of thinking The original article was posted on: https://bold.expert/you-have-to-see-every-child-as-an-individual ...
15/06/2022 Improving the quality of preschool education by enhancing teaching routine observation task Observing children in the classroom is a widespread practice, especially in Vietnam where it is incorporated as a daily task for teachers. Despite this being part of their routine, many teachers do not know how to do it properly and see opportunities to use this information to inform their teaching...
07/03/2022 "What will you do when you grow up?" – Gender-responsive good practices for every preschool child's career dreams Even at preschool age, children have begun to form dreams about their future careers as well as tend to change these dreams based on the ones that are seemingly “more suitable” in their environment (Struthers, 2015). Phrases such as, "girls can’t be engineers" or "girls do not play...
29/09/2021 Innovate a teacher’s mindset – the “key” to improving the quality of early childhood education in mountainous communities Over the past 5 years, VVOB, through its Mitigating Barriers to Learning in Early Childhood Education in disadvantaged and ethnically diverse districts project (BaMI), has aimed to improve the quality of early childhood education in disadvantaged districts where many ethnic minority groups live...
20/09/2021 Valuing and using local culture in teaching Vietnamese for preschool children Culture, which consists of gender roles, family structure, language, etiquette, parenting style all formulate values and beliefs and also our expectations of a child’s behaviour. In the educational environment, teachers need to be aware of how their cultural background may influence their...