As part of our UK/Viet Nam Season 2023, ‘Project-based lessons for climate action’, a collaboration between Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE) and Atlantic 5-Star English Language centre in Viet Nam, supports more than 50 English language teachers (primary and secondary) in and around Ha Noi to design project-based lessons for climate action.
The project aims to help both teachers and learners to engage with the theme of climate action; produce an inspiring collection of lesson plans and project materials on the theme to share with teachers across Vietnam with the adoption of new course books aligned with Vietnam’s latest national English language curriculum. Participating in the project, teachers will also increase their knowledge and skills in project-based learning which has received increasing interest from state school teachers in Vietnam. This clearly focused training programme can help teachers improve their ability to deliver more effective project-based lessons.
The project is made up of three stages.
- The first involves a short (12 hour) training course on designing project-based lessons delivered through eight hours of self-access activities on the NILE platform, two live zoom sessions with NILE trainers and two local workshops with Atlantic trainers.
- The second phase of the project will be a face-to-face one-day conference in Hanoi to further enhance teacher skills and showcase the work produced by teachers and their students as part of the project.
Time: 08.00 to 11.45, 10 December 2023
Conference venue: Ngo Sy Lien Secondary School, 27 Ham Long, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi (maplink) - The final part of the project will be compiling a Resource Pack containing participant-created lesson plans from the course, samples and photos from the most innovative projects and talk summaries from the conference. The British Council will share this ‘Projects for Climate Action Resource Pack' with teachers across Vietnam.
Participating teachers have now completed both on-line self-access and live training sessions and are currently delivering their projects that will help students engage with the themes of protecting and sustaining the local and global environment through activities such as video, drama and story-telling.
Zach Pinson, project lead for Atlantic, expressed his appreciation of the teachers’ efforts and motivation in actively participating in the project while navigating their busy school timetables and other family commitments: ‘It’s clear that many teachers in Viet Nam are looking for ways to engage their learners in using English outside of the coursebook and connecting it to the wider world. Projects, climate action activities, and drama are a great way to do this, and our partners at NILE have been very generous in sharing their international expertise in these areas. We’re impressed with the projects that teachers have designed so far, and we’re very excited to see what their students will learn and produce over the coming weeks.’
Lang Thi Anh, a teacher from Quang Ha High School in Vinh Phuc province said: ‘I think that this course is extremely useful for me in particular, and for Vietnamese teachers who are willing to do something meaningful for our community and our environment. Project-based learning is a great method that we can use and apply to our teaching to motivate our students to be more creative and think outside the box.’
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