Participants were exposed to various practical activities relevant to the Vietnamese context to use in the classroom through four practical presentations delivered by RMIT Vietnam senior educators. Topics included using flipped learning to promote active learning, practical ideas for motivating language learners, using driving questions to encourage active learning, and engaging in grammar.
Sunshine Garden Kindergarten Manager Le Thien Ly found the How to Use Driving Questions to Encourage ‘Active’ Learning session very useful to use in her own classroom.
“It helped me to better understand how to ask students to drive questions to encourage their own active learning, as well as how to integrate creative activities into teaching,” Ms Ly said. “Thanks to the session, I also realised that it is crucial to keep exploring new ways to make the lessons more interesting for students.”
Atlantic Five-Star English Educator Brandon Sinkovic was impressed with the Practical Ideas for Motivating Language Learners session.
“There [were] a lot of great teaching methods provided in the session which I can apply right away into my classes,” he said. “One of those is encouraging active learning by allowing students to brainstorm tasks or planning projects by themselves instead of just following the teacher's guidance."