Intergrating the education of true values and essential life skills about home life and career orientation for students in grade 12 english lessons

THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAININ LE LOI HIGH SCHOOL ***
EXPERIENTIAL INITIATIVE 
INTERGRATING THE EDUCATION OF TRUE VALUES AND ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS ABOUT HOME LIFE AND CAREER ORIENTATION FOR STUDENTS IN GRADE 12 ENGLISH LESSONS
	 Author: Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo 	 Position: Teacher 	 	 Subject: English
THANH HOA, YEAR 2019
 THANH HÓA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
 LE LOI HIGH SCHOOL
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INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE
INTERGRATING THE EDUCATION OF TRUE VALUES AND ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS ABOUT HOME LIFE AND CAREER ORIENTATION FOR STUDENTS IN GRADE 12 ENGLISH LESSONS
	 Author: Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo
	 Position: Teacher
	 Subject: English
THANH HOA NĂM 2019
CONTENTS
A. INTRODUCTION
I, THE REASON FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC.
We are living in a globalization world with full of opportunities as well as challenges. Everyone, especially the youth, has made great efforts to keep pace with the storming development in all aspects of social life. 
Owning the advantages of activeness, health and confidence, the youth deeply aspire to affirm their ability and “ego” with their family and outside world.They have so many good conditions and chances to realise their dreams as well as their ambitions.
Besides, the opening of the market economy has brought a new flow of wind which penetrates deep into every family, every person, sweeping young people into a new lifestyle, busy and hurrying. With curious and inquiring nature, the youth are also infected with negative aspects of the market economy and “ digital life” easily. Many of them heighten the importance of the fame, money and power so much that they forget the core values in their life, such as family happiness, the love and compassion. 
To prevent the possible passive influence, educating life skills for students becomes one of the special enterests all around the world. In Viet Nam, with the purpose of educating the youth totally to achieve both standards of talent and morality in order to meet the international intergration’s requirements as well as learner’s developmental expectation, the educational system has been innovated strongly. That requires every teacher not only to train professional competence for students but also to nurture their soul and personality through education of life skills in teaching process.
The school where I am teaching is located in Tho Xuan district, Thanh Hoa province. Teachers there always believe that administration of school disciplines and education of life skills play an important part in comprehensive education for students.
Especially, in the condition of relatively rapid development of market economy there, people’s living standards are being improved everyday.The change of social and economic life has created both good and bad influences on the students. More than ever, teachers need to prepare for them a solid foundation of knowledge and essential skills which help them to determine, respect and maintain indispensable values of the life, including two basic aspects: family and career. From my heart-self thought, I would like to present the initiative experience named “Intergrating the education of true values and life skills about home life and career orientation for students in grade 12 English lessons”.
II. THE PURPOSE OF STUDY
I sincely hope that this topic will contribute to raise the quality of total education for my students. Moreover, in more and more complicated social context, I desire to share my experience of the educational intergration of the true values and neccessary skills in home life and career orientation for students in English teaching process with my colleagues.
III. THE OBJECT OF STUDY
In this topic, my main concerns are to reseach educational intergration of true values of home life and career orientation and necessary life skills in homelife and career orientation for students in teaching process. From that, I would like to form the true consciousness for students about family’s values and the way to solve problems relating to home life as well as provide them with stable basics of skills to choose a suitable job when they leave high school.
I also would like to research to find out the most suitable methods of intergrational education in order to raise the quality of total education for students in High schools.
IV. THE METHODS OF STUDY.
In the studying course of my own topic, I myself carry out investigation and analyse methods from the practical requirements with the learned knowledge to draw conclusions for the study, such as:
- Theoretical and experimental experience in present environment to build up the subject.
- Read and study the related documents to draw good experiences to apply for my own teaching.
- Observe and collect information about students’ learning as well as their feelings, thoughts and opinions about family and profession.
- Having statistics and compare the result of study of students through tests and surveys.
B. THE CONTENTS OF INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE
I. THE THEORETICAL BASIC OF THE TOPIC.
	- According to Circular No. 14/2002/ TT - BGD&DT issued on April 1st, 2002 to direct and thoroughly grasp innovation policy in secondary school.
	- According to Official document No. 463 / BGD&DT - GDTX issued on January 28th, 2015 to direct the deployment and realisation of life skill education in indergaten schools, secondary schools and continuing education centers.
	- According to Official document No. 3131/CT-BGDĐT issued on August 25th, 2015 to guide the realisation of the mission of school year 2015- 2016.
	- According to UNICEF, life skills are defined as psychological abilities for adaptive and possitive behaviour that enables individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of every day life. They are loosely grouped into three broad catergories of skills: cognitive skills for analysing and using information, personal skills for developing personal agency and managing oneself and inter-personal skills for communicating and interacting effectively with others.
	Life skill education is a structured programme of needs-and-outcomes- based participatory learning that aims to increase positive and adaptive behaviour by assisting individuals to develop and practise psycho-social skills that minimize risk factors and maximize protective factors. Life skill education programmes are theory - and evidenced - based, learner - focused, delivered by competent facilitators and approciately evaluated to ensure continuous improvement of documented results.
	Family definited by Merriam is a group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head (household). It is the basic unit of society and the background for every person’s life. Living happily in family and building family happiness is not only the truly desire but also the responsibility of each member in it.
Home life is a person’s family, personal relationships, and the domestic routine and interests. Family happiness is built through wonderful values of home life such as love, parents’ sacrifice for their children, children’s respect to their older generations. A healthy and stable home life is built through small but practical actions in the behaviour of family members in daily activities including listening, sharing routine work, the sympathy, forgiveness and caring eachother as well as the respect of family rules
Career is the job or series of jobs that you do during your work life, especially if you continue to get better jobs and earn more money.
To orient career well, students must know to self - evaluate themselves depending on what they are living and working with but what they want.
Education of necessary skills in home life and career orientation belongs to skill groups of giving decision, communication, co-living and resolving situations, skills to love and respect others. These skills provide students with a good background of personality, help them to be confident and live better in the future. From that, they determine the right motivation and attitude for studying.
II. THE REAL STATE OF TOPIC. 
1. Advantages
	- The rapid development of science, technology, mass media gives students opportunities to acquaint with and widen the social knowledge, including family and profession aspects
	- Students are active and creative people, so they find it easy to comprehend and apply basic knowledge relating to daily life into their real life.
2. Disadvantages
	- Because of the bad influence of market economy as well as globalising trend, especially the unserious attitude in learning and the self-indulgence in lifestyle, the thought of enjoyment, being addicted to game online, etc, many students neglect right motivation, nice dreams and ambitions.
	- Rushing to Europeanizing way of living leads many students to disregard the good values of family and society. 
	- The educational content of the topic is a intergrating activity, so the time for discussing and understanding the values and the essences of life skills in home life and career orienting skills is short.
	- There has not been any teacher in my school who is professionally trained about life skill education
3. The results of the real state of topic.
	In fact, Due to the defying good cultural, moral values, some groups of students are in state of moral depression, faint ideals, the shortage of ambition and striving awareness for future.
	Some students are induced to social evils. They no longer respect their parents, their teachers and friends.
	In some families, parents are busy working and earning for life’s demands. The care and management of children are not warm and strict enough.That is why many students don’t feel the deep meanings of family and precious values of fresh life.
	From the last academic years, especially in the school year 2017 - 2018 I was distributed to teach students in grades 12A1, 12A10. Through teaching process I have realised that the lack of responsibility and necessary skills in home life and career orientation created for students so many difficult problems that they felt difficult to face or deal with. Instead, they rushed to “virtual lifestyle” and this interfered with learning results and ethnical training.
Table 1. The learning result in grades 12A1, 12A10 in the school year 2017 – 2018
Grade
Number of students
Verygood
Good
average
Weak
quantity
%
quantity
%
quantity
%
quantity
%
12A1
45
0
0
14
31,12
29
64,44
2
4,44
12A10
44
0
0
11
25,0
30
68,18
3
6,82
Table 2. The result of ethnical training.
* ( Qty: Quantity)
Grade
Number of students
Very good
good
average
Weak
Qty
%
Qty
%
Qty
%
Qty
%
12A1
45
38
84,44
5
11,12
2
4,44
0
0
12A10
44
37
84,09
4
9,1
2
4,54
1
2,27
Table 1 shows that students’ learning result is not good. There isn’t any very good student. The number of students who have average and weak result are high. Few students get good result.
Table 2 shows that the result of conduct training is not very high. There are still students who have weak conduct. That means many students break school discipline and do not have right awareness in learning and moral training. From the reality, I find that one of the main causes affecting on above result is the shortage of warm feelings in home life and professional aspiration. Many students find it difficult to deal with situations happening in home life and feel confused in choosing a suitable job in future
	In the school year 2017 - 2018, I also had a research about students’attitude to their family and their future career orientation in two classes and followings are the result.
Table 3. Students’attitude to their family 
Grade
Number of students
Feel happy
Having some problems
Having so
many problems
Quantity
%
quantity
%
quantity
%
12A1
45
20
44,44
14
31,12
11
24,44
12A10
44
18
40,91
11
25
15
34,09
Table 4. Students’attitude to their future career orientation 
Grade
Number of students
Determine clearly
Wondering
Haven’t known
Quantity
%
quantity
%
quantity
%
12A1
45
20
44,44
16
35,56
9
20
12A10
44
16
36,36
18
40,91
10
22,73
	Table 3 shows that the proportion of students who feel unhappy or having problems in their home is quite high. When asked about their feelings in home They usually feel lonely, bored with daily routines. They find it difficult to solve situations in home life and follow family rules. Many of them don’t feel their parents’love for them. From my study, I find that many students only think about their aspects but their parents’ones. They trend to live for themselves but are not aware of their responsibility
	Table 4 shows that the proportion of students who determine their future jobs clearly is also not very high. Many of them orient jobs without basing on their ability as well as their character. They have trends to choose according to what they want. On the contrary, the number of students who are wondering or haven’t know how to choose a suitable job are relatively high. One of the main reasons which students have to face in the professional orienting process is the lack of relating skills. Therefore, in the academic year 2018 – 2019, since I was assigned to teach English in grades 12A3, 12A4 I have chosen the topic “Intergrating the education of true values and essential life skills about home life and career orientation for students in grade 12 English lessons”.
III. THE SOLUTIONS OF IMPLEMENTATION.
1. The periods applied with intergrating knowledge and activities.
	The activities to educate students about true values of home life and career orientation as well as necessary skills in home life are intergrated through peroid 4: After you read (Unit 1. Home life – Part A. Reading) and extra practice 
	The activities to educate students about job-orienting skills are intergrated through peroid 36: After you speak (Unit 6. Future jobs – Part B. Speaking).
	From the oriented contents in text book and teacher’s book as well as basing in the reality about the thought, feeling, knowledge and experience of students in daily life, in the process of guiding students to do tasks and practise, I intergrate contents relating to the influences and values of family and career on one’s life. Simutaneously, I provide, analyse and encourage them to grasp thoroughly the necessary skills in home life and orienting a suitable job for their life. 2. Educating students the true values of home life and career orientation 
UNIT 1. HOME LIFE
Peroid 4: Part A. Reading 2 (con’t – end)
*. The aims of the lesson.
	By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
	+ Get the ideas of a happy family.
	+ Understand more about home life and the role of each member in building family happiness.
	+ Catch and use vocabulary relating home life effectively.
	+ Love and respect the values of a happy family and be aware of their own responsibilities in home life.
	+ Form possitive behaviours and suitable attitudes in home life and social relationships.
* Contents and tasks in the peroid
	- Task 2. Answer the questions
	1. How busy are the parents in the passage?
	2. How caring is the mother?
	3. How do the father and the daughter share the household chores?
	4. What is the daughter attemping to do after secondary school?
	5. Why do the children feel they they are safe and secure in their family?
	- After you read. Work in groups. Compare the family described in the text with your own family.
* The content applied with intergrating activities.
	After you read. Work in groups. Compare the family described in the text with your own family.
(Time allowed for this content is from 30 to 35 minutes)
	- Teacher will lead students to activities to learn about the main values of a happy family in one’s life and responsibilities of each member in home life. From that, teacher helps them to form possitively behavioural skills and right attitudes in home life.
 ACTIVITY 1. Learning about the main values of a happy family.
	- Teacher gives student handouts and ask them to fill in the missing information from the reading text by answering question (work in group of four):
What is your father’s/ mother’s/ your responsibilities in your home life?
Aspect of home life
Father
Mother
You
Sister/ Brother
- working/ earning money
- washing dishes
- cooking
- Cleaning the house 
- taking off the garbage
.
	- From the suggestion in the passage, students will fill in the missing information, give comparision then report their ideas about the responsibilities of each member in their home life.
	- After checking and correcting students’ mistake, teacher leads them to activity to find out about the values of a happy family in one’s life by the question:
What are the values of a happy family	 to our life, especially in the modern society? (work in group of eight)
	- Students discuss then a representative reports their ideas.
	- From students’ ideas, teacher slideshows and analyses the values of family.
	+ A family is to be a shelter in times of storm
	We all have storms in life because sometimes life get tough. We experience the rain and the dark storms, such as failure, rejection, changes in life. We didn’t plan these storms. In the storm, we need a place of protection and security. We need a place to call home and a family that love us and care us inspite of our short coming and failure. Family are fans when we have losing seasons. Therefore, a family is always a shelter in times of storm.
	+ A family is a learning center for life: We usually think of parents teaching the children. If we are not learning from your family, we are missing great opportunities.In family, we can learn basic and vital skills for life; not only usual routine such as how to walk, eat but also the core life values such as how to love, how to live plainly and modestly and the awareness of responsibilities,etc. Many children in their youth are like plants that grow up strongly in their family. Why we not?
	+ A family gives us a peaceful place to play after everything outside: The home should be a place for family fun, a haven for happiness and a place to have good time which no place on the world can give us a similar chance to have. There, we can relax and do what we want without worrying anything. Then, we will have precious memories that always warm and cherish us in coming years.
	+ A family should be a launching pad for our good future: Our parents always do the best things inspite of sacrificing their lives to make sure that their children can grow up and become kind-hearted and mature people.
	+ A family is a place to give and receive love without any condition: Family is the first community that all of us have a strong attachment to. It is the unconditional love that is the key to build the close-knit relationship among members in the family. The close-knit relationship becomes the foundation for many other core values. It teaches us how to believe, how to respect yourself and others, how to forgive and forget, etc. The love of family gives us strength and a gracious heart.
	* Teacher gives a lecture: From the above values, you can see that family is unvaluable possession for one’s life. How can we live happily without family? It is not a easy question to answer. That is also the reason why all of us must respect every moment beside our relatives and family so that we have right awareness of responsibilities in home life and with other members.
	ACTIVITY 2. Educational intergration of responsible awareness in home life for students.
	- Teacher leads to the question: Having a happy family is one of our biggest expectations. Being a member of your family, what do you think are your responsibilities? ( work in group of eight).
	This question will help students revise systematically as well as learn from eachother about what they should do for their family. 
	After students diccuss and give t