On March 19, Mr. Le Tuan Cuong, Math teacher at Olympia Inter-Level High School (Hanoi), posted on Youtube the video of the song `Nguyen Function` – content in the 12th grade Math program, in the rap genre.

Teachers create creative ways to teach during the pandemic

The rap song `Nguyen Ham` was composed and performed by teacher Le Tuan Cuong.

Teacher Cuong shared that the students are all hyperactive and enjoy learning in class because there is direct communication between teacher and students, making the lessons easier to understand.

`I like to rap and practice composing for a long time. Students really like music and quickly memorize the lyrics. So why don’t I turn difficult Math knowledge into cool rap songs?`, Mr. Cuong

From the moment of inspiration, the Math teacher only took 30 minutes to create the song.

In addition to composing rap, during the break to prevent Covid-19, Mr. Cuong also created many methods to bring lectures to students more easily, such as using Microsoft’s MS Teams tool in teaching and interacting with students.

`I apply the Flipped Classroom learning model. Students can watch videos or lecture slides before class and actively search for materials for the theoretical part. All online learning time will be spent solving exercises.

Teaching physical education to high school students at Edison High School (Hung Yen), teacher Tran Duc Quyen wondered how to help students exercise regularly in the context of being indoors, without friends or a playground.

`If students always stay within four walls, making friends with an iPad or computer without exercising, students are at risk of being overweight, obese, and their physical and mental health will decrease,` Mr. Quyen said in

Pland Challenge

Mr. Quyen’s Plank challenge.

Mr. Quyen decided to give students challenges related to movement exercises.

Mr. Quyen’s challenge video quickly attracted the participation of students, teachers and parents.

Mr. Quyen and the sports team’s teachers came up with new ideas, created videos instructing indoor exercise combinations and posted them for students to follow.

From there, new movement combinations were born associated with household objects such as chairs or stairs.

Group of gymnastic movements

Mr. Duc Quyen and the sports team teacher instruct movement combinations at home.

Also at Edison school, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong Ly created new content to teach online Life Skills to students.

Instead of the usual soft skills lessons, Ms. Ly coordinated with the School Psychology Department to learn about students’ thoughts and included the content `Improving mental health during the epidemic season`.

Ms. Ly added that in order to meet the requirements of online teaching, she increased the exercises for students to take advantage of their creativity.

`My colleagues and I also create knowledge-based games for students on applications such as Zoom and Skype. Students can both interact and do online exercises comfortably,` Ms. Ly said.

Comic book product about how to prevent Covid-19 made by 6th grade students.

In the 2019-2020 school year, more than 22 million students only completed the 20th week of school, then took a break for Tet, then took a break from Covid-19 prevention.

To date, Covid-19 has appeared in 180 countries and territories, infecting more than 250,000 people, of whom 10,200 died.

Duong Tam