Passionate about creativity for dear students

destined for the profession

Sharing about the profession of “cultivating people”, Ms. Luyen Thi Van confided: In her family in Yen Dinh district, Thanh Hoa province, no one is a teacher. At first, she forced herself to study Pedagogy just to please her parents. However, during the 4 years of studying at Vinh University, receiving dedicated and thoughtful teaching from teachers who are good at their profession, she promised herself that she would strive to become an exemplary teacher in the future.

Ms. Luyen Thi Van is an exemplary teacher, respected by her colleagues and students. Photo: Chu Dien

After graduating, she was assigned to teach at Quynh Thang A Primary School in 2003, and in 2008 she was transferred to Quynh Tam Primary School until now. The teaching profession has many unique hardships, but every day looking at the innocent, pure faces and natural smiles of the children, she feels immense love.

With the belief that teaching must be done with all the love for students and using that as a source of motivation to constantly explore, create, and innovate appropriate educational methods to achieve the best results, she is often close to, grasps the psychology and learning capacity of each group of students to determine goals, propose methods of imparting knowledge and good lessons to them. At the same time, she also focuses on choosing teaching aids and equipment combined with applying information technology to design games, study sheets, use images, videos... in a diverse and vivid way, arousing students' interest and enthusiasm in building lessons.

Ms. Van considers helping colleagues in provincial and district competitions for excellent teachers a responsibility to her profession. Photo: Chu Dien

With the desire to help generations of students improve, every day, Ms. Van always tries to help them realize the value and joy in learning and practicing. To do this, in addition to planning and designing lessons, she also values ​​the skills of evaluating, praising or guiding students to carry out the requirements of learning activities; because this is considered a decisive factor in the quality of teaching and learning. Just like that, she puts all her heart and soul into each letter and calculation with her students.

In particular, Ms. Van is always dedicated to guiding and instructing students down to every period and comma. Outside of class, she often chats with students to create intimacy and shorten the distance between her and her students. Through that, she not only teaches them knowledge in subjects but also, like a mother, trains their character and cultivates their life skills.

Owner of many outstanding initiatives

With diverse teaching methods, Ms. Van has created excitement in students' learning. Photo: Chu Dien

To contribute to improving the quality of education, Ms. Luyen Thi Van has worked hard to research and develop 10 innovative experiences in teaching and education at levels 3 and 4, typically: Guiding 5th grade students to use Graph diagrams when teaching science; applying the mind map method to teaching Geography in primary school; some measures to improve the effectiveness of teaching Math in primary school according to the orientation of developing capacity and qualities in the current curriculum and textbooks...

The most impressive of these is the initiative that achieved level 4 on “Experience in using some active teaching techniques to promote students’ creativity in teaching World Geography for grade 5”. Because when this initiative is applied in teaching practice, students get to experience, develop their abilities, and nurture their qualities... they gradually love the subject and become more confident about the amount of knowledge they have acquired.

With her continuous efforts, Ms. Van was trusted by the Board of Directors of Quynh Tam Primary School to be the head of the professional group for grades 4 and 5 for many years. With her responsibility, she has developed teaching plans for each grade and organized group meetings at least twice a month to evaluate professional work according to lesson research and deploy topics, discuss innovative initiatives and experiences in teaching methods according to general education 2018.

In addition, she also came up with many good initiatives, discussed with teachers in the group and applied them together to make each lesson more exciting and interesting. Thereby, promoting students' self-awareness and enthusiasm in expressing constructive opinions on lessons. At the same time, Ms. Van also actively participated in observing lessons, giving comments, evaluating and supporting colleagues in developing lessons. In particular, she considered guiding teachers in the school to compete for excellent teachers at the provincial and district levels and implementing topics as a responsibility to the profession. Therefore, she is always ready and enthusiastic to share her experiences, knowledge, and support colleagues to accumulate more knowledge.

Ms. Luyen Thi Van also directly trained many students who achieved high results. Photo: Hong Dien

With her diverse teaching methods, Ms. Luyen Thi Van has continuously achieved excellent results in the provincial competition for excellent teachers and excellent homeroom teachers, and has been awarded a certificate of merit by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; has continuously achieved the title of grassroots emulation fighter, achieved excellent results in the provincial competition for excellent homeroom teachers at the primary level, and is a typical example of the Education sector of Nghe An province in the period 2015 - 2020; and has received many certificates of merit and certificates of merit at all levels. Currently, Ms. Van is being proposed by the Department of Education and Training of Quynh Luu district to be awarded the title of Outstanding Teacher for the period 1982 - 2022 by the province.

“Over the years, Ms. Luyen Thi Van has also directly trained many students to win high prizes in district-level Olympic competitions. Because of her love for the profession, Ms. Van always helps each generation of her beloved students have an initial knowledge foundation, helping them to confidently take their next steps in their studies. She has contributed to Quynh Tam Primary School adding to the rich achievements in the local educational career,” Ms. Ho Thi Thuy Nga - Principal of Quynh Tam Primary School, Quynh Luu District commented.