Life skills education is important at schools. A new curriculum includes creative experience and life skills education as an obligatory subject.
Life skill education is important at schools. A new curriculum includes creative experience and life skills education as an obligatory subject.
Life skills education is important at schools. A new curriculum includes creative experience and life skills education as an obligatory subject.
Over the past years, to provide and practice life skills, nursery schools in Khanh Hoa have organized a variety of classroom learning and extracurricular activities such as garden-based learning, playing folk games, rural market shopping activities, going on a picnic, etc which provide active, engaging, real-world experiences that have personal meaning for kids.
The teaching material on life skills practice continues to be used at primary schools with a wide variety of activities on national holidays and other special events. Moreover, clubs of marital arts, swimming, badminton, football, aerobics, etc have been founded. Kids have become very enthusiastic to join the activities.
An exciting extracurricular activity at Thai Nguyen Junior High School.
At high schools, life skill education is integrated in other main subjects, class and school meetings; extracurricular activities; art and sporting activities. Many schools have organized soft skill activities through team work, games; tours to historical vestiges, traditional craft villages; English days, etc. In addition, adolescent reproductive health education, knowledge contests on traditional craft villages, road traffic safety law; crime prevention and control; care for social welfare beneficiaries.
The high schools of Ngo Gia Tu, Nguyen Trai, Phan Boi Chau, etc have also cooperated with some universities to give students a chance to get 24-hour experience as a teacher. According to Phan Thi Thao Uyen, Principal of Thai Nguyen Junior High School, Nha Trang City, life skill education activities have contributed to raising awareness of basic essential skills that lead to a change in knowledge, attitude, skills and behavior, helping them know how to control their temper, resolve conflicts; become more active and confident in communication and social activities, etc.
In recent years, schools have focused on promoting the roles of head teachers and those in charge of young pioneer and Youth Union tasks to raise the effectiveness of life skills education. However, some challenges include students’ limited access to life skills; insufficient extracurricular activities and creative experience activities due to lack of fund and infrastructures and so on, according to Tran Quang Man, Vice-Director of Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training.
In order to improve the effectiveness of life skill education, prepare for the renovation of the curriculum and textbooks with creative experience as a compulsory subject, Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has directed schools to promote the roles of psychological counseling teams; strengthen coordination with local authorities, agencies, parents' associations. In addition, schools need to continue innovating life skills education; facilitating teachers to attend life skills education training; organize team activities, promote clubs’ activities, and enhance school tours to traditional craft villages, historical sites and traditional houses.
Khanh Hoa Department of Education & Training has also recommended the Ministry of Education and Training to have specific programs and plans to improve life skills education, organize life skills education courses and seminars for teaching and managing staff.
