Reduce tragedy by teaching students life skills directly and effectively

From these unfortunate events, the issue of sex education, life skills, teaching how to face pitfalls for students is raised by public opinion. Many people think that, if we give sex education and life skills early, directly and effectively, it will help them have the skills to protect themselves and avoid unfortunate situations that may happen.

So how does the school teach life skills to students?

Regarding this issue, talking to Infonet, teacher Ngo Thi Thanh – Principal of Nam Tu Liem Primary School (Hanoi) said: “Sex education and life skills for students are always focused by the school. in the past time. I think that there are issues that need to be taught to children from a young age, especially sex education as well as decision-making skills for different situations in life.

On the school side, our students from grade 1 to grade 5 all receive sex education in natural, social, and science classes. In addition to the main program with basic content, in the classroom, the school’s teachers also focus on practical contact.

According to Ms. Thanh, in the process of sex education and life skills education, it is necessary to call directly and put the problem directly so that the children see that these are sensitive areas and that others are not allowed to touch them. many places teach the style of calling “avoidance” that makes students not understand the essence of the problem.

Also at Nam Tu Liem Primary School, the school has priority programs on life skills education integrated into class activities or activities under the flag.

“More importantly, in life, in daily lessons, the teachers are also interested in the mental and physiological development of students to promptly help them solve the problems they are facing.

In the past two school years, under the influence of the epidemic, the girls did not have in-depth talks on sex education, but in the previous years, the school also regularly invited doctors and experts to talk to students, there are even parents and teachers to understand the importance of sex education, life skills education.

There, students are also asked questions, they are given situations and decisions in practice,” said principal Ngo Thi Thanh.

A current situation is that many schools have a school psychology counseling room, but the operation is not effective. About this, Ms. Ngo Thi Thanh said: “My school itself also has a school psychology consulting room. However, with the characteristics of primary school students, who have changes or psychological instability, it is the homeroom teacher who is the first to give psychological advice. We put the first psychological counseling role as the homeroom teacher because at primary school, the homeroom teacher is always more closely related to the children.

I find that the psychological counseling room is most effective with middle and high school students, sometimes teachers share their thoughts with students, it is school psychology counseling, not “big problems”. “big” is school psychology counseling.

Ms. Thanh said that the difficulty of school psychology counseling is that when students have problems they do not know, they have to go to the psychological counseling room to share.

“That’s why, I always tell my teachers to have a deeper and more thorough understanding of age psychology in order to conduct school psychology counseling, it is important to be closely with the children.

In addition, the difficulty in school psychology counseling today is practical feedback. Because it is clear that in the standard program, there is also a part of teaching about school psychology and sex education, but children do not practice and respond to teachers not much.

I think that sex education as well as teaching children life skills is the most effective, but it is still a good coordination between the family and the school to make the children more open.

There are cases where the child has a problem, the child is worried, but whether they say it or not, is it important to share. I say this to see that adults need to care more about their children, become their friends, listen to their children’s voices instead of being a little intimidating.

Parents must give their children the opportunity to speak their minds, but they cannot be the truth and force their children to obey despite everything. In order to untie the knot so that the child can develop naturally, for the child to share, the adults themselves must accompany the child,” said Ms. Thanh.

It’s already too sad, please don’t make it even more sad…