Teacher''''s roles and teaching styles

II- THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VIETNAMESE EDUCATION AND AMERICAN EDUCATION.. Education is a concept, referring to the process in which students can learn something:  Instruction refers to

Group’s members:

Phạm Thị Hương Nguyễn Thị Thành

Đỗ Thị Thu Thảo Nguyễn Thị Thu Thủy (1988)

I - OVERVIEW ABOUT EDUCATION.

II- THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VIETNAMESE EDUCATION AND AMERICAN EDUCATION.

III- THE SIMILARTIES BETWEEN VIETNAMESE EDUCATION AND AMERICAN EDUCATION.

IV- CONCLUSION.

I - OVERVIEW ABOUT EDUCATION

Education in the largest sense is any act or

experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual

In its technical sense education is the process

by which society deliberately transmits its

accumulated knowledge, skills and values from

one generation to another

Etymologically the word education contains

educare (Latin) "bring up", which is related to

educere "bring out", "bring forth what is within",

"bring out potential" and ducere, "to lead”

Teacher in educational institutions direct the

education of students and might draw on many

subjects

There is also education in fields for those who

want specific vocational skills

In addition, there is an array of education possible

at the informal level

Education is a concept, referring to the process in which students can learn

something:

 Instruction refers to the facilitating of

learning toward identified objectives, delivered either by an instructor or other forms

 Teaching refers to the actions of a real live instructor designed to impart learning to the

student

 Learning refers to learning with a view

toward preparing learners with specific

knowledge, skills, or abilities that can be applied immediately upon completion

Cultural Shift in ROLE of TEACHER

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• Teacher is a respected

authority figure whose

viewpoint is accepted

correct.

• Teacher authority and

knowledge is unchallenged

and unquestioned.

• Teacher is usually expected

to have a pastoral care role.

AMERICAN CULTURE

• Teacher viewpoint is seen as one viewpoint only It is

expected that students compare

a range of conflicting views

• Teacher viewpoints expected to

be challenged or questioned.

• Teacher at tertiary institutions

is not usually expected to have

a pastoral care role.

II - THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VIETNAMESE EDUCATION AND AMERICAN EDUCATION.

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• Teacher is almost axclusive

source of and transmitter of

knowledge, guidance and

assessment

• Teacher transmits

information, demonstrates

skills and imparts moral and

social training.

AMERICAN CULTURE

• Teacher is the student’s coordinator of student’s learning resources, is a critical guide, a questioner and the principal source of assessment

• Teacher analyses information and ideas within an interpritive framework and models the critical analytical approach required of students.

Teacher is instructing the students.

Cultural Shift requires by Different

TEACHING STYLES

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• The lecture is the medium

of teaching and is well

paced, clear stepped in

stages.

• Teacher provides all

information required

through notes and use of

one main text.

AMERICAN CULTURE

• Class activities, class projects, field trips, interviews, class discussion, small group

discussion are additional teaching strategies.

• Teacher expects students to use other sources of

information eg libraries, media, experts The teacher will not provide all

information required.

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• Equipment is scarce and

used sparingly

• Teacher closely

supervise student work

AMERICAN CULTURE

• Equipment is used regularly eg overhead projectors, whiteboards, computers, videos

• Teachers encourage independent learning and students are expected to take risks and initiatives

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• Litte opportunity to ask

questions in class

sessions

• The use of one or two

texts that are follwed

closely

AMERICAN CULTURE

• Constant opportunity for questions and

expectation that student

do ask questions

• Perhaps no main text, but a teaching list is recommended If there

is a main text, it may not be closely followed

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• Aim of teaching is simple

transfer of knowledge and

skills to students.

• Expectation that students

understand examples drawn

from own culture.

AMERICAN CULTURE

• Aim is independent and critical styles of thinking, the development and capacity for theorising and abstraction in the students Sometimes the decelopment of speculative critical intelligence and

expansion of knowledge base.

• Expectation that students understand examples from different Western cultures.

VIETNAMESE CULTURE

• The written word is seen

as the truth and the goal

of learning

• Pedagogy

AMERICAN CULTURE

• The written word is seen

as a tool for learning.

• Androgogy.

III - THE SIMILARTIES BETWEEN

VIETNAMESE EDUCATION AND AMERICAN EDUCATION.

- Providing basic knowledge background for students

- Using modern methods teaching

- Teachers are the instructors

- Many ways to teach

IV - CONCLUSION.

Every culture has its characters So are Vietnamese and American education

Nowadays, Vietnamese education has some similarities to American