Sáng kiến (initiative experience) Experiences in improving listening skill for the students in class 6A at Nguyen Chich secondary school

Experiences in improving listening skill for the students in class 6A at Nguyen Chich secondary HighschoolSáng kiến (initiative experience)

THANH HOA EDUCATION & TRAINING DEPARTMENT

DONG SON EDUCATION AND TRAINING OFFICE

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EXPERIENCE INTIATIVE

THE CLASSDOJO APPLICATION IN ENGLISH CLASSES

TO ESTIMATE THE FIFTH FORM STUDENTS OF DONG TIEN

PRIMARY SCHOOL ACCORDING TO THE 22 ND CIRCULAR OF THE MINISTRY OF

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

The implementer: Le Thi Huong Position : Teacher

School : Dong Tien Primary School Subject : English

THANH HOA 2020

I INTRODUCTION

1 The reasons of choosing topic

The Ministry of Education and Training has issued 22nd Circular on the

22nd of September 2016 in order to evaluate primary students With the policy

of innovation, instead of scores assessment teachers have evaluated about the qualities and capabilities of students which help schools, parents and students to have practical solutions to achieve the best result in study

English is taught 4 times a week at my school called Dong Tien primary school Under the current provisions of the English curriculum for primary students, students need to achieve some requests of attitudes, knowledge and skills To be able to give comments or detailed assessment of each students and regularly contact with their parents in order to help students promote the advantages, and limit the disadvantages; A teacher should use some tools to support the student management and assessment

Thanks for information of articles and some websites I have known an effective tools to manage and comment students The tool which I have just concerned and used is ClassDojo Therefore I would like to share some of my initial understanding during using ClassDojo with colleagues through my

experience intiative “The Classdojo application in English classes to estimate

the fifth form students of Dong Tien Primary School according to the 22 nd circular of the Ministry of Education and Training”

2 The purpose of study

As a teacher of English at primary school, I myself not only constantly research and innovate teaching methods but also find out the effective ways to manage and comment students exactly Hopefully, this topic will contribute to reduce the difficulties and obstacles in giving comments or detailed assessments

of each student, as well as help schools, parents and students to have practical solutions to achieve the best result in educating and studying

3 The object of study

The fifth form students of Dong Tien Primary School

4 The methods of study

To research a topic, people often choose many different methods With this topic, I use the following methods:

- Theoretical research method: I read the conducting material issues related to my research needs

- Learning experience from my colleagues

- Experimental matching method

- Observation method

II THE CONTENT

1 Theoretical basic

In each English class, a teacher should encourage the self-awareness and activeness of students, he or she also create the contexts for children to communicate Through learning activities they can express their qualities, certain capacity

In each learning activity, through observation of student activities, communication among students, a teacher assesses students with specific comments based on the requirements and standards of qualities, capacity which are needed to achieve

* The qualities are needed to form and develop:

- Home country love; family love, respect for teachers, humane tolerance, being heplful

- Honesty, self-esteem, equity

- Hardworking, independence, confidence, control; good self-management;

- Successful implementation of the provisions of the school, local residence and the traffic rules

*The capacity is needed to form and develop:

- Positive, proactive in learning, participating in extracurricular activities

of the schools, the commune where the family resides;

- ability to arrange a time to learn, help parents with housework, take part

in the activities of population groups;

- Communicative skills and cooperative learning, group activities in class, school, local;

- Creation in learning; good use of applications and technology to support learning

2 The current situation

English is free choice subjects for primary school students, so they do not pay more attention to the lesson,they are forced to learn and even their parents

do not force them to learn this subject

There is no awareness of students about the importance of learning English because they are too young to understand Apart from that they have no habbits of reading books or reference in order to improve or enrich their knowledge Because they are too young, even they meet a lot of difficulties in learning their mother tounge, so it’s more difficult for them to learn a foreign language or English

Most teachers ask students to listen to the tapes in a foreign language learning lessons, there is no attractive activity to get the attention of the students

to the lessons Some teachers don’t use educational equipments in teaching This makes some students feel tired of reading English In English lessons, students

are inactive, tired of reading or speaking English and they are not eager to learn

Most of my student’s families are farming families, they work a long way from their house, they don’t have time to take care of and teach their children so

there is a restriction between the combination of school and family What I have mentioned above makes the process of managing and evaluating student become difficult

I have taken a small recent survey among 5th grade students at Dong Tien primary school by the way I had done before using ClassDojo and here is a

result:

Class Total Time of survey Positive behavior

Needs work behavior

5A

5B

5C

5D

34

36

33

38

3 months

3 months

3 months

3 months

50%

45%

55%

47%

50%

55%

45%

53%

5A 4 11,7 10 29,4 14 41,1 6 17,8

5B 3 08,3 12 33,3 14 38,3 7 20,1

5C 5 15,1 10 33,3 13 39,3 5 12,3

5D 7 18,4 8 21,0 17 44,7 6 15,9

3 Solution

Based on the requirements of quality, capability needed to form and develope I built a number of criterias to evaluate and write a report After that I adjusted accordingly in teaching English in order to promote the advantages of

application ClassDojo in evaluating primary students according to the 22nd Circular of Ministry of Education and Training Here is the way of using

ClassDojo

To use Classdojo a teacher should perform the following steps:

(I have used pictures to inllustrate for each step)

1 Going to the home papge of ClassDojo at: https://www.classdojo.com/

2 Seeing information in the following guide:

https://classdojo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

- Log into Classdojo with an account:

A teacher has to create an account to log into this page

For example: I’ve used my account qhuong78@gmail.com

to log into Classdojo

qhuong78@gmail.com

3 Adding classes and the names of students

A teacher types the names of classes which he or she has to be responsible for, then he or she adds the students’names into these classes Each student will have a pretty sympol.If a teacher does not like the sympol he or she can change it

4 Building criterias to assess students’ capability and qualities Here are some criterias which I have used in my classes

Positive behavior

good pronunciation Persistence

team work respect teachers and friends

clear reading wearing uniforms

writing correctly picking up trash

doing homework exercise keeping clean

good speaking

Needs work behavior

not remembering structures saying obscene

unprepared argument with friends

not learning by heart the old lessons Disrespect

5 Write a comment for each student in each activity

6 Statistic comment after each English class or after a week (or after a month, a semester )

7 Create account codes of students and their parents in order to help them know the teacher’s detail commemts about students

8 Print account codes of students and their parents They can use these codes to log in their own class and provide their emails to know about the process of studying and get informations from their teacher

4 The result

The 22nd Circular has just been implemented in the first semester of school year 2019-2020 so that I have only used a few functions of ClassDojo to support the assessment Thanks for these functions I find that students are more hard-working, they are eager to learn English They pronounce the words correctly , they are better at reading and writing skill, especially they are more self-confident in communication inside or outside classes It is also easy for me

to find each student’weak points and strong points so that I can have the best methods of teaching which are suitable for each student’s level I will try my best to use other clever and useful functions of ClassDojo in order to help my students achieve the best result in study

Here is a result after using ClassDojo:

Class Total Time of survey Positive behavior Needs work behavior

5A

5B

5C

5D

34

36

33

38

3 months

3 months

3 months

3 months

55%

60%

75%

75%

45%

40%

25%

25%

5A 6 17,7 12 35,3 12 35,3 4 11,7

5B 5 13,8 12 33,3 14 39,1 5 13,8

5C 8 24,2 12 36,3 11 33,3 2 6,2

5D 12 31,2 15 39,5 10 26,3 1 3

III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

1 Conclusion

Classdojo applications help teachers to get statistics and synthesis of the operations of the class in each lesson, or every week of the semester based on individual comments about the attitude, behavior of each student at school ClassDojo is also very convenient bridge between the school and parents in order to promote effective teaching and education

2 Recommendation

Those are my experiences of using Classdojo in English lessons at primary school I hope that you will read and give me more advice I always try my best

to find out the best way of teaching to improve the quality of learning English

A part from that, I hope the authorities will pay more attention to the facilities, educational equipments, reference books…give us more chances to improve the quality of teaching English to meet today educational goals

CONFIRMATION OF

GROUP

I assure that this is my experience initiative I

do not copy other people’s content

Writer: Le Thi Huong

REFERENCES

1, Use the 22nd Circular of Ministry of Education and Training

2, Use images for https://www.classdojo.com/ from Internet

INDEX

Part I I INTRODUCTION

1 The reasons of choosing topic

2 The purpose of study

3 The object of study

4 The methods of study

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Part II

II THE CONTENT

1 Theoretical basic

2 The current situation

3 Solution

4 The result

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12 Part III III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

1 Conclusion

2 Recommendation

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