November 20 has become a festival for teachers, a day for all of society to honour teachers who diligently work in education and care for their careers of “cultivating people”.
Teachers organise outdoor activities with folk games, helping ethnic minority students in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau more confidently communicate with each other in the Vietnamese language. (Photo: VNA)
A free English class at the Bich Dam Border Guard Station in Vinh Nguyen ward, Nha Trang city, Khanh Hoa province (Photo: VNA)
Teacher Mai Thi Lam has been teaching for many years at kindergartens in the highlands of Son Ha district, Quang Ngai province. (Photo: VNA)
Nguyen Thi Hang, a Muong ethnic minority teacher at the Cuc Phuong Primary School in Cuc Phuong commune, Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh province, is persistent and strives to find new, lively, and effective methods in teaching. (Photo: VNA)
Professor Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary then President and former student of the Nguyen Gia Thieu High School in Hanoi, talks to teacher Le Duc Giang, head teacher of Class 10B, nearly 60 years ago (2020). (Photo: VNA)
Ha Anh Phuong, an English-language teacher at Huong Can High School of the northern province of Phu Tho, has made her name to the list of the 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize 2020 of Varkey Foundation.
A teacher in the northern province of Thai Binh has developed her own teaching methods, adding visits to relic sites to help students gain knowledge and feel inspired to learn more about history.
With an unconditional love for their young charges, many young teachers have volunteered to work in schools in remote and mountainous areas in the hope of providing an education to all. Nguyen Thi Van at the Thuong Nung kindergarten in northern Thai Nguyen province is one such teacher.
Bach Thuy Linh (stage name Nguyet Ca), an English teacher in Hanoi, and her friends have translated Vietnamese children’s songs into English, so that foreign friends can learn about Vietnamese music. They have also sung these new English-language versions.
The lap steel guitar, or Hawaiian guitar, was adopted in Vietnam in the 1930s. However, the guitar has been faded into oblivion in the last four decades, and its sound has been hardly ever heard. Having a consuming passion for this musical instrument, Bui Bach Lien – an aged teacher in Hanoi has sought many ways to revive the sound of the guitar in the busy city life.
Nguyet Ca, an English teacher renowned for her Bilingual Songs for Kids project, has again enthralled the community of English students and music lovers with a new project in which she converts lyrics of songs from famed composer Trinh Cong Son into English.
Kim Jai-min, a retired teacher in the Republic of Korea, has turned his photos on Vietnam into watercolor paintings, which are displayed at Gallery Yeonjung in the RoK’s Incheon city.
