Well-being and involvement in early childhood education in Vietnam

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1 Well-being and involvement in early childhood education in Vietnam Filip Lenaerts, Nguyen Thi Lan Huong & Dinh Thi Thu Trang VVOB Vietnam Why are we here? Listen carefully and follow my instruction And follow my instruction closely, we only have a minute! Take your paper, I take mine I draw the line, you draw the line Make sure you produce the same drawing! 1

2 Quite often, we see this in practice Policy vs Practice Policy (2009) Holistic development Elements of integrated ECCD Child-led Thematic Deep learning Practice Learning? Teach >< Play A friendly environment, created by teachers Lack of child-initiated activities Child observation skills lacking Parents ask real education = framework for quality early childhood education = capacity gaps among kindergarten teachers 2

3 Illustrating the gap How do you know that children are learning? 3

4 Well-being and Involvement = Deep Learning Leuven Scale 4

5 Leuven Scale Care width, ensuring that all children develop to their full potential 5

6 Ten Action Points #1 Rearrange the classroom in appealing corners or areas #2 Check the content of the corners and replace unattractive materials by more appealing ones #3 Introduce new and unconventional materials and activities #4 Observe children, discover their interests and find activities that meet these orientations Effect on all children #5 Support ongoing activities through stimulating impulses and enriching interventions #6 Widen the possibilities for free initiative and support them with sound rules and agreements #7 Explore the relation with each of the children and between children and try to improve it #8 Introduce activities that help children to explore the world of behaviour, feelings and values #9 Identify children with emotional problems and work out sustaining interventions Focus on individual child #10 Identify children with developmental needs and work out interventions that engender involvement within the problem area Process-Oriented Child Monitoring System Care width Actions Child Observation Well-being Involvement 6

7 We introduced this approach in Vietnam Interesting Useful Relaxed Applicable What our partners shared with us Vo Thi Hoai Binh, Department of Education, Quang Ngai province The child monitoring system helps teachers to observe children in a systematic way, by focusing on involvement and well-being 7

8 What our partners shared with us Bui Thi Lan, Quang Nam University I like how the teachers make the classes comfortable. And they also need to create challenges for learning. What our partners shared with us Nguyen Thi Cam Tu, Nghe An Teacher Training Institute I like the focus. And as a training content, I find the concept easy to absorb. 8

9 What our partners shared with us Ho Lam Hong, national experts on early childhood The content is innovative and very important as a foundation to change practice in Early Childhood Education in Vietnam What our partners shared with us Vu Thi Huyen Trinh, Early Childhood Education Department, Ministry of Education and Training I would be really interested in applying this approach through action research to see how we can contextualize child observation and use it in Vietnamese kindergartens. 9

10 Action research, contextualizing the approach Thai Nguyen: 11/ /2016 Practice schools of teacher training institutes, remote schools Well-being and involvement, 10 Action Points, care width Data? Observations beginning, middle and end Data+? Action plans, documentations of actions Will contribute to contextualization of POMS Quang Nam: 01/ /2016 More focus on remote schools Well-being and involvement, 10 Action Points Include focus on ethnic minority children s barriers to learning and participation Contribute to contextualization of POMS Contribute to better understanding of equity in early education If time allows, let s try one more thing 1 minute, we don t have much time left Take the same paper with the flower, and turn it into an airplane 10

11 And let it fly!!! Xin cảm ơn! Thank you! 11