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TEACHING EXPERIENCE ENCOURAGING STUDENTS’ SELF- STUDY IN THE COVID19 EPIDEMIC THROUGH THE WEBSITE GNOMIO.COM (Subject: English) NGHE AN EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT 1/5 UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHING EXPERIENCE ENCOURAGING STUDENTS’ SELF- STUDY IN THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC THROUGH THE WEBSITE GNOMIO.COM (Subject: English) Teacher: Ho Thi Thuy Duong Group: English Academic year: 2021-2022 Phone number: 0986153040 Nghia Dan, April 2022 TABLE OF CONTENTS  CONTENT Part A Introduction Page I Reasons for the study II Aims of the study III Methods of the study IV Scope of the study V New features in the study’s result Part B Investigation I Theoretical background Theoretical basis Real basis Roles of ICT in teaching and learning foreign languages Introduction about the web Gnomio.com Creating the web II Experiment 10 Material preparations 10 The illustrated lessons 11 III The results of the research 31 Part C Conclusion 32 Experience from the research 32 Proposals 32 Part D References 33 PART A: INTRODUCTION I Reasons for the study The popularity of the Internet and computer technologies among young people as a whole has created serious grounds for the successful integration of ICT into education process When teaching foreign languages as an important place is given to ICT, which allows the introduction of new technologies, new techniques, shifting the emphasis to the independent work of a student, making the trainer diverse This situation increases the effectiveness of the classroom work and makes the independent work of student efficient There is an opportunity to use the Internet as teaching tool both for training all types of speech activity, and for research work and education At the lessons of foreign language, one should integrate the linguistic, socialcultural and communicative approaches, taking into consideration teaching a foreign language for specific purposes To achieve these goals, it is very important to use the whole potential of internet resources The Internet offers users various options that can be use by students and teachers: email, participation in videoconferences, publication of research articles in the online system, numerous references catalogs and search system ICT assumes the use of such telecommunication technologies as compute training and test programs, electronic dictionaries for teaching students both professional vocabulary and reading in a special setting; telecommunication technologies, which give the opportunity to participate in the dialogue of cultures through audio and video conferences ICT combines the advantages of various technologies within a single resource placing educational material in the form of electronic textbooks, audio and video files using hyperlinks Using ICT, a teacher has an opportunity to monitor the knowledge and skills of students in the network, making the learning process more individual Since its outbreak in late December 2019, COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the world and like any critical sector, education has been hit hard Students, schools, colleges and universities have been deeply impacted While the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) acknowledges the public health decision to close schools, we believe that contingency plans should be in place to ensure the right to education even in times of crisis GCE is convinced that all learners no matter where they live and circumstances have a right to education Education is an essential right for children, young and adults in emergencies and must be a priority from the very beginning of any and all emergency responses From this fact, I decided to choose the topic: “Encouraging students’ seftstudy in the COVID 19 epidemic through the website Gnomio.com” for my experienced innovation II Aims of the study The aims of this study are: - To maximize students’ studying effects at home when they are subjected to the interruption of going to school as usual The site supports more materials and documents relating to the Units in grade 11 th with a view to stimulating students’ positive attitude toward studying - To partly help students to overcome the difficulties to conduct training in English more effectively, students are positive, more proactive when acquiring, comprehension is a form of lessons III Methods of the study - Draw from experience of my teaching - Consult many documents ,especially methods of study - Study colleagues’ experience IV Range of the study The theme revolves around the issue of research, designed from some experience in teaching English 11 - Standard program to teach skills for students for the entire year in the period of COVID 19 expansion, particularly in the classes 11A1, 11A7 the academic year 2021- 2022 V The new point of this experience In my innovation, the site based on the database of Moodle.com which has been applied in the creation of e- learning website The courses in my website is designed depending on my aims in teaching students Particularly, in the period of Covid-19 pandemics, students need to self study more when they stay at home The Gnomio.com helps to create environment for students to develop the ability of using language and self- consolidate their process of learning PART B: INVESTIGATION I Theoretical background Theoretical basis Self- study is a stance towards understanding the world Scholarship in the social sciences has its basic human interaction and when one person studies an other, the self in relation to the other becomes a primary focus In other words, in the social sciences we study ourselves in relationship to others and we seek to gain understanding in order to move ideas forward in specific settings like classroom or more general setting like education Following Meyer-Mork (2010), we employed self-study as a methodology uniquely suited to offer insights into the interactions that took place in coaching conversations carried out by Marcus (Author 1) Laura (Author 2), supported Marcus by serving as a critical friend and offering commentary on the self-study in an effort to examine Marcus's coaching from different perspectives We were able to reflect on the various ways these roles are designed to support novice teachers Our findings indicate that the role of the coach subtly shifts based on the relationship with the teacher being coached, and more understanding is needed within the coaching literature to better parse the overlaps and differences based on role relationships 1.1 What is self- study Self-studying is a learning method where students direct their own studying outside the classroom and without direct supervision Since students are able to take control of what (and how) they are learning, self-study can be a very valuable way for many students to learn Self-study and traditional classroom learning can be used together to help your child get the most out of his or her learning experience Together, these methods help students learn and retain information better, helping boost comprehension, grades, and motivation 2.2 The importance of self- study Self-studying is a great method students can use to enhance their learning experience, whether they are studying for a course or learning about a topic for fun Using self-study, students are able to go beyond simply learning what their class textbooks and instructors teach them By practicing self-study, they are encouraged to further explore topics they are interested in, developing stronger study skills as a result One of the major advantages of self-study is that students can take control over their own learning And when students have the control, they become even more interested in learning 1.3 ICT in education Globalization and technological change processes that have accelerated in tandem over the past fifteen years have created a new global economy “powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge.” The emergence of this new global economy has serious implications for the nature and purpose of educational institutions As the half-life of information continues to shrink and access to information continues to grow exponentially, schools cannot remain mere venues for the transmission of a prescribed set of information from teacher to student over a fixed period of time Rather, schools must promote “learning to learn,” i.e., the acquisition of knowledge and skills that make possible continuous learning over the lifetime “The illiterate of the 21st century,” according to futurist Alvin Toffler, “will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Concerns over educational relevance and quality coexist with the imperative of expanding educational opportunities to those made most vulnerable by globalization developing countries in general; low-income groups, girls and women, and low-skilled workers in particular Global changes also put pressure on all groups to constantly acquire and apply new skills The International Labor Organization defines the requirements for education and training in the new global economy simply as “Basic Education for All”, “Core Work Skills for All” and “Lifelong Learning for All” Real basis The COVID-19 pandemic has also created an uncertain and stressful environment for both faculty and students This has inevitably affected teaching and learning Reported challenges to teaching and learning include the lack of inperson support, lack of communication and peer interaction, and the rapid upscaling of online technologies Health professions education is more than simply the acquisition of knowledge and skills as it also includes learning within collaborative clinical workplaces Face-to-face learning within these authentic clinical environments can help build confidence, improve communication skills, and foster team building and networking The COVID-19 pandemic potentially places barriers on many of these aspects of teaching and learning To reduce the spread of the virus many national governments have issued directives enforcing university, college, school and early childhood settings closures, or restricting grouping and social distancing practices whilst they remain open Teachers across all sectors have significantly reconfigured their teaching and practices at very short notice The application of online teaching and assessment for courses that were designed initially for face-to-face contact could be a challenge for both faculty and students The need for social distancing and decreased access to patient care due to stricter infection control practices (quarantine and isolation) complicate student7 centered clinical teaching and learning Challenges with the availability of personal protective equipment place further strains on working and learning in the clinical environment Eventually students in this time are facing to the challenge in get knowledge from conventional classes due to reduction contents in the curriculums as well as loss time at school Hence each of them has try their best to acquire and to supplement knowledge through online databases Moreover, besides the available websites for students’ self- study, they need a connection to their teacher in order to get extra- assignments, to give their answers to the required questions from the teacher, or even exchange their ideas with their classmates in the context of comparing notes not being performed Students need a source in order to get extraexercises, access to lectures and discuss any topic with their partners Or can teacher post the assignments for students to practice more Roles of ICT in teaching and learning foreign languages The popularity of the Internet and computer technology among young people and in society as a whole has created serious grounds for the success integration of ICT into educational process When teaching foreign languages an important place is given to ICT, which allows the introduction of new technologies, new techniques, shifting the emphasis to the independent work of a student, making the training diverse This situation increases the effectiveness of the classroom work and makes the independent work of students more efficient There is an opportunity to use the Internet as a teaching tool both for training all types of speech activity, and for research work and education The application and communication technologies in education has, in modern conditions, an increasing significant impact on the quality and competitiveness of national education system World practices in the field of new technologies and forms of teaching, methods of educational activities managing and the quality of learning process, the creation of electronic educational resources are widely use in teaching foreign languages At the lessons of foreign languages, one should integrate the linguistic, sociocultural and communicative approaches, taking into consideration teaching a foreign language for specific purposes To achieve these goals, it is very important to use the whole potential of Internet resources The Internet offer various options that can be used by students and teachers: email, participation in video conference, publication of research articles in the online system, numerous reference catalogs and search systems ICT assumes the use of such telecommunication technologies as computer training and test programs, electronic dictionaries for teaching students both professional vocabulary and reading in special setting; telecommunication technologies, which give students the opportunity to participates in the dialogue of cultures through audio and video conferences ICT combine the advantages of various technologies within a single resource placing educational material in the form of electronic textbook, audio and video file using hyperlinks Using ICT, a teacher has an opportunity to monitor the knowledge and skills of students in the network, making the learning process more individual The undoubted advantage of using ICT is to achieve mobility of learning, because using e-mails and forums, teachers and students can provide feedback, they can receive the necessary consultation, using the time in the classroom more effectively The use of ICT is more efficient within the framework of a certain model of training, developed in terms of the educational goals Training based on ICT technologies is an important competence of modern teacher Introduction about the web Gnomio.com 4.1 What is Gnomio.com? Gnomio.com.com is a learning management system that allows creating courses on the Internet or online websites The advantage of the Gnomio.com system is working online Teachers only need to register a domain name, and then it is completely to use Once created, the E- learning site is ready to go immediately with no limit to the number of users and courses Gnomio.com is based on Moodle, so the website’s operation is similar to designing an E-learning page on Moodle To use Gnomio.com, people must log in at https://www.gnomio.com/ The interface allows people to register the domain name of the website that they want 4.2 The advantages of the Gnomio.com system Using the Gnomio.com is very simple with an intitive interface, teachers only take a short time to get used to it Beside using proficiently, they can set up the interface for their own website The module- based design allows users to modify the interface by using one of the given theme or create a new theme The Gnomio’s design is geared towards education and for those working in educational sector It suitable for different levels of educational and training forms such as universities, colleges and high schools as well as organization and individuals Some of main advantages of this web can be listed as: + Engagement: The web Gnomio.com is designed to create excitement for students in study through the learning activities taking place inside and outside the classroom are designed by teachers + Connections: Teacher are the centre of a learning network that connects students, parents and educators + Personalization: The support appealing and easy- to- use accounts and features into contents of courses personalizing students’ learning process + Evaluation: The web Gnomio.com makes it easy to tract students’ learning progress: Assignment, Quizz, Giving opinion, Giving learners cross- evaluation, etc 2.6 Unit Competitions * Objectives - Students can practice more about Gerund through exercises and they also exchange their answers with their partners on FORUM * Activities on the site - Teacher posts the exercises about Gerund to better students’ knowledge about the point of grammar - Students access to ASSIGNMENT to get exercises and type their answers in FORUM 2.7 Unit World Population * Objectives - Students can go over the topic and study the lesson by themselves - They also can practice in order to improve their reading skill and accumulate the vocabulary about the topic “World Population” * Activities on the site - Teacher provides the lecture about the topic “World Population” and an reading assignment by using the application POTATOES combining with SCORM PACKAGE - Students watch the video of the lecture and learn the new words by heart - And they also apply the words in the lecture to understand the reading text so as to answer the questions - Also they can check their answer by themselves 22 23 2.8 Unit Celebrations * Objectives - Students are able to learn and have background about traditional celebrations in Vietnam - They can also use English to express the information about one of traditional celebrations * Activities on the site - Teacher add a new topic discussion on FORUM “Talk about one of celebrations in your country” - Students type their replies to express their ideas 24 2.9 Unit The Post Office * Objectives - Learners are able to practice more about Relative pronouns through an Exercise - They can self- evaluate their level in this topic * Activities on the sites - Teacher posts the exercise of Relative pronouns using Jquizz embed SCORM - Students exercises and check their answers by themselves 25 2.10 Unit 10 Nature in Danger * Objectives - Students are able to use the background of the topic they study in Unit 10 to Exercise reading - The eleventh graders are motivated to be concerned about the safety of nature and how to protect it - They can self- evaluate their level of reading skill about the topic * Activities on the site - Teacher creates and posts an exercise of reading about topic “ Nature in danger” - Students the exercises and learn more new words about the topic 26 2.11 Unit 11 Sources of energy * Objective - Students are able to use the information about sources of energy in the world and the vocabulary relating to the topic to make a powerpoint document * Activities on the site - Teacher asks students work in groups to the task - Students post their products on ASSIGNMENT 27 2.12 Unit 12 The Asian Games * Objectives - Students are able to improve their reading skill by answer the question in Reading exercise - They also self- evaluate their performance when getting results of completing the task * Activities on the site - Teacher posts the questions about the reading passage in Unit 12 - Graders answer the questions and know their level of reading in this topic 28 2.13 Unit 13 Hobbies * Objectives - Teacher design the tasks to support students to self- study about the sounds /bd/, /bz/ and cleft sentences focusing on subject, object and adverb - Student can using English to tell their hobby * Activities on the sites - T creates the lecture about the sounds/ bd/, /bz/ and the theory of cleft sentences in slides embed SCORM package - Student self- study at home and reply the requires in Forum with the topic “Tell about your hobby” 29 2.14 Unit 15 Space Conquests * Objectives - Students are able to use English to discuss about the information of man’s space conquests * Activities on the site - Teacher creates a Forum to provide students a space to express their knowledge - Students complete the table about the historic events in man’s space conquests 30 2.15 Unit 16 The wonders of the world *Objectives - Learns are able to get about the in formation about seven ancient wonders, seven new artificial wonders, seven natural wonders of the world and sharing with their mates in Forum - They can get knowledge about special passive voice * Activities on the site - Teacher gives the require in Forum and post the lecture about the topic with powerpoint and SCORM package 31 - Students reply to the require and study the lesson by themselves 32 2.16 Other topics - Teachers cam add more topics depending on their aims in teaching For example, to train gift students, the topic “ BỒI DƯỠNG HSG” is created In this section, teacher posts the requirements in order that students the task or prepare the lesson at home 33 III The results of the research During the period of Covid-19 pandemics, education and training have a number of challenges However, with a view to maintain the study and learning for all children at every age, there are plenty of methods applied including online teaching through Zoom, Microsoft teams,… The website www.hothuyduongthpt15.gnomio.com is a private site, which supports my students in further study of English I can find that these activities make students eager to study the lessons at home They not learn passively and not wait for the time teacher provides points of knowledge Not only my students learn actively, but the teacher can control their activities and the portion of participation as well I have done the experiments applied to class 11A1,11A7 for the entire academic year As a result, more and more students are appealed to the activities on the site In this school, after applying these encouraging activities into the lessons until this point of time, my students react positively to my research The result of the research on the rate of students’ attendance is counted up with the following table: Academic year 2021- 2022 Always Often Sometimes Never 11A1 41 students 78% 19% 2% 1% 11A7 38 students 90% 8% 2% 0% 34 PART C: CONCLUSION Experience from the research In conclusion, students' activeness in learning English has become one of the most concerned issues of methodologists and linguistics Especially, in recent years, there have been many changes in learning and teaching method with the purpose of enhancing students' activeness, creativity and communication ability in the real life situation in English language Learner- centered approach and communicative approach are more and more emphasized and appreciated Learning English through the encouraging self- study activities through the website Gnomio.com is one effective and interesting way, especially in the Covid- 19 pandemics when students have a lot of difficulties in direct classroom Not only does this help teachers provide a wide range of the documents they want supply to their students, but it gives students convenience of the time to the tasks Proposals * For the school: The school provides essential materials in the best using state for teaching online * For colleagues: I hope that my colleagues can consider using my experience in their classes and give me their options and contributions to so that my research can be better Finally, I would like to thank to my lovely students, my colleagues, and others having helped me to complete his teaching experience and I hope to be received your contributions to make my research more perfect 35 PART D: REFERENCES Tiếng Anh 11 Nhà xuất giáo dục Thiết kế giảng Tiếng anh 11 Chu Quang Bình Sách Giáo viên Tiếng anh 11 Nhà xuất giáo dục Dạy học theo chuẩn kiến thức kĩ 11 Vũ Thị Lợi, Trần Nga, Nguyễn Thị Thuận, Nguyễn phương Hạnh The role of ICT in higher education for the 21st century: ICT as a change agent for education Ron Oliver Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia r.oliver@ecu.edu.au Powerful Pedagogy: Self-Study of a Teacher Educator’s Practice by Robyn T Brandenburg Moodle.com 36 ... 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