Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm Educating the sense of responsibility and kindness for 10th graders via project activities in teaching Tieng Anh 10 (Global Success)

 NGHE AN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING 
 DIEN CHAU 3 HIGH SCHOOL 
 TEACHING INITIATIVE 
 TOPIC 
EDUCATING THE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY 
 AND KINDNESS FOR 10TH GRADERS 
 VIA PROJECT ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING 
 TIENG ANH 10 (GLOBAL SUCCESS) 
 Scope: Theory and Methodology of Teaching English 
 Author: Le Thi Quy 
 Foreign Language Group 
 School year: 2022-2023 
 Mobile number: 0987634745 
 PART 1: INTRODUCTION 
1. Rationale of the study 
English is a compulsory subject in the 2018 National Curriculum and is also one of 
the instrumental subjects in high schools. It focuses on the goal of forming and 
developing common competencies and good qualities in accordance with the 
provisions of the 2018 General Education Program. 
In the 10th grade English textbook (Global Success), the core content of English 
subject is expressed through the system of subject matters and themes. Project is 
delivered at the end of each unit, so the content of each Project is based on the 
topic of each unit. Through this, students will consolidate their language 
knowledge of the unit, and at the same time they will develop their skills. More 
importantly, students’ good qualities are also developed. Project is implemented 
from the point of view of project-based learning. 
To present the product, each student, or each group, depending on their ability, can 
choose from many different presentation channels, such as using posters or power 
point to present, acting out talk show, making clips, doing interviews, or reenacting 
a contest or an event that delves into an aspect with specific content. After each 
presentation, students should be encouraged to give a message to express their 
understanding and awareness about the lesson topic and about the world around 
them. 
In the fundamental and comprehensive reform of education, the Ministry of 
Education and Training has emphasized an important change, that is, shifting from 
attaching the importance of transmitting knowledge content to developing the 
qualities and competences of the students in the new general education program, 
with 5 main qualities: patriotism, hard work, honesty, kindness, and responsibility. 
Comprehensive education must focus on equipping knowledge along with 
educating qualities. The qualities that the school must be aimed at are the ones of 
citizens who know how to "live and love, live autonomously, live responsibly.” A 
sense of responsibility and kindness are among the qualities that should be present 
in everyone. Living responsibly is fulfilling obligations to society, school, family, 
and oneself; it also means being brave enough to take actions and take 
responsibility. From that, one’s kindness is formed and developed. Therefore, it is 
very important to train and educate students about the sense of responsibility as 
well as kindness. 
Stemming from the practical requirement of innovating teaching methods and from 
the goal of the 2018 general education program on developing core competencies 
and qualities for high school students as well as starting from the actual capacity of 
students at Dien Chau 3 High School, I have decided to choose the topic 
"Educating the sense of responsibility and kindness for 10th graders via project 
activities in teaching Tieng Anh 10 (Global Success)”. 
 1 PART 2: CONTENT 
 CHAPTER 1: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL BASIS 
1.1. Theoretical basis 
1.1.1. Requirements for quality and contribution of English subject in fostering 
students’ quality 
The requirements to be achieved in the general education program are the results 
that students need to achieve in terms of quality and competence after each grade 
level and each educational activity in each class and grade level. Students’ specific 
requirements must be met 
Based on the qualities mentioned in the 2018 National Curriculum, all subjects in 
high schools must contribute to helping students form and foster those qualities 
according to the characteristics of each subject. English is one of the subjects that 
directly form and develop all five qualities across all levels of education. 
With the main qualities that are uniform for all subjects, the English Subject 
Program only states the general requirements for the whole subject from a general 
perspective and is associated with the characteristics of the subject. The specific 
requirements for the qualifications and the key qualities for each level have been 
outlined in the overall 2018 National Curriculum. 
In each subject and educational activity, these key qualities have different specific 
manifestations and are formed and developed in different ways. Stemming from 
the specifics of the subject, the high school curriculum pays attention to the 
requirements to achieve the main qualities for students. 
At the high school level, through English subject, students understand and respect 
the diversity of cultures, and at the same time, initially reflect the cultural values of 
Vietnam in English; develop the qualities of patriotism, hard work, honesty, 
kindness and responsibility to the environment and community. Among five 
qualities, in this writing, I would like to focus on kindness and responsibility 
qualities. 
1.1.2. Concept of the qualities “responsibility” and “kindness” 
• Concept of responsibility 
Responsibility is a quality that should be presented in every person. Living 
responsibility is fulfilling obligations and obligations to society, school, family and 
oneself; and has to take responsibility for their actions, so it is very important to 
practice responsibility for students. 
The responsibility of a person is something that he or she must ensure that an 
outcome must occur in the future in an accurate and timely manner (whether 
consciously or unconsciously). Failure to fulfill the responsibility is a mistake, and 
that person must bear the bad consequences that occur due to that fault. Therefore, 
 3 literal and figurative sense. Kindness is not something too big, but in life, kindness 
is tolerance, the way that people give love to each other. Kindness is always in 
each person and comes from the heart, the heart with the desire to help others 
without expecting anything in return. A kind person who has love and compassion 
is the one with a beautiful heart and qualities. 
In today’s society, kindness is also the act of helping people between people, 
bringing a love full of life in a hurry but still enough warmth in each person’s 
heart. Every individual and group in this life is a cell of society. All of them have a 
kindness in order to help the difficult people out there have a better life and warm 
their cold hearts which have been hurt for so long. Kindness helps each person get 
closer and closer to each other to see that this life still has many good things. Each 
person who spreads good things to others with kindness is how much happiness 
appears. Because it is kindness that is important in each person and kindness is the 
bricks that build a happy life and society. Kindness always brings laughter to each 
person. The expressions of kindness are: 
 + Love, care and taking care of family members; 
 + Love for the friends and teachers; encouraging friends; 
 + Respect for elders; helping children, the elderly, the sick and the disabled; 
 + Knowing how to share with people in difficult circumstances, people in remote 
areas, people with disabilities and people affected by natural disasters; 
 + Respect for the differences of friends in the class in terms of dress, personality 
and family background; 
 + Trying not to discriminate or divide friends; 
 + Being ready to forgive the friends’ guilty acts. 
1.1.3. The importance of educating qualities “responsibility” and “kindness” in 
education. 
First, it must be affirmed that educating qualities “responsibility” and “kindness” 
for students is really important. Education is intended to form morals through the 
process, knowing well, loving good, and behaving well so that good morals can be 
implemented into habits of mind, heart and hands. Through doing projects, it 
cultivates values which include components of knowledge, awareness or 
willingness, and actions to carry out these values. 
The value of education that needs to be strengthened is the character value of 
kindness and responsibility. Kindness is a condition and action that can be 
accepted by society because it deserves to be accepted humanity and can provide 
comfort for them; Kindness helps children to show concern for the welfare and 
feelings of others (Marzuki, 2017: 58). Kindness can include behaviors such as 
being considerate, polite, helpful and understanding of others. Shows 
 5 add that Project-based learning consists of easily identifiable units of work with the 
beginning, middle, and end which are linked to form a tangible end product, in 
which students can gain a real sense of achievement. Project-based learning is an 
individual or group activity performed over a specified period of time, resulting in 
a product, presentation, or performance. 
Based on all the definitions above, it can be concluded that project-based learning is 
a model of classroom activity that gives students the opportunity to develop their 
knowledge and practice their skills through work individually or collaboratively 
1.1.5. Significance of project-based learning 
Project- based learning gives some benefits in teaching English as Foreign 
language. Here are several benefits of implementing project- based learning in the 
process of English teaching and learning as follows (Larasati, 2015:30) 
1. Project- based learning increases autonomous learning. 
2. Project- based learning develops higher order thinking skills. 
3. Project- based learning boosts motivation. 
4. Project- based learning is matching the mixed- ability classes. 
According to the Harmer and Alison (2014) retrieved from Putri (2018:63) the 
advantages of Project- based learning are: 
1. Project- based learning improves in academic achievement. 
2. Project- based learning enhances wider skills such as group work skills, 
communication skills, and problem solving skills. 
3. Project- based learning increases the students’ motivation and enjoyment 
4. Project- based learning has diverse learners who come from various 
backgrounds of knowledge that can construct their knowledge each other and other 
learning styles from students in the classroom. 
5. Project- based learning enables outreach people who expert of the certain subject to 
bring students into deeper understanding for gaining information. 
1.1.6. The roles of the teacher and students in project-based learning 
The roles of the teachers in project-based learning are different from that of teachers 
in traditional learning. In the traditional teaching and learning process, teachers 
play an important role, teacher-centered in teaching and learning activity. Their 
main responsibility is to impart knowledge and transmit the information 
directly to students. So, the teachers spend more time explaining the material for 
students; and the students tend to be passive. However, in project- based learning, 
teachers are only guides and advisers, not “hands-on” for their students. It requires 
students to be active learners. It concentrates more on the students than on the 
teacher. Therefore, the teacher spends more time monitoring and coaching the 
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 Frequency (%) 
 Questions 
 Always Often Sometimes Rarely Never 
 1. How often do you 
 7.8 23.4 42.6 26.2 0 
 do housework? 
 2. How often do you 
 join your father in 5.6 18.3 48.2 27.9 0 
 doing housework? 
About your 3. How often do you 
 family life join your mother in 6.5 23.4 43.5 26.6 0 
 doing housework? 
 4. How often do you 
 help your brother or 
 5.2 22.4 37.1 35.3 0 
 sister with their 
 housework’s duty? 
 5. How often do you 
 put the rubbish in 17.4 76.7 5.9 0 0 
 proper dustbin? 
 6. How often do you 
 take part in planting 0 0 41.9 34.9 23.2 
 trees movement? 
 7. How often do you 
 About the take care of trees to 
 0 0 41.9 51.1 7.0 
environment protect the 
 environment? 
 8. When you see 
 dirty garbage in your 
 class, in your school 
 0 18.7 51.1 30.2 0 
 yard or in your 
 village road, do you 
 stop to pick it up? 
 9. How often do you 
 give money to the 0 0 76.8 23.2 0 
 poor? 
 10. How often do 
 you give items to the 0 0 38.4 55.8 5.8 
 needy? 
 About the 
 11. How often do 
community 
 you take actions to 
 0 13.9 69.7 16.4 0 
 help the 
 disadvantaged? 
 12. How often do 
 you organize 0 0 7.0 20.9 72.1 
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