Conducting Testing and Evaluation Activities for Students' English Learning Outcomes at School

Facilities include: labs, cassette players, projectors, televisions, computers/laptops, pictures, grammar system charts and visual aids, cassette tapes/CDs, listening and speaking teaching equipment, lesson design software, software to test and evaluate students' learning outcomes and funding sources to organize extracurricular activities for students. If teachers know how to effectively develop and use facilities and technical means, they will help students acquire language from vivid visuals to abstract thinking, creating interest, making it easy to learn, easy to understand, easy to remember to apply English in practice naturally. At the same time, they also help teachers convey teaching content to students in the most effective way.

In short, implementing innovative teaching methods, effectively using teaching equipment and tools, using English teaching software, and preparing electronic lesson plans in teaching English will contribute to improving the quality of teaching and learning English in secondary schools in particular and the quality of education in general.

1.3.3.4. Conduct testing and evaluation of students' English learning outcomes at school.

Can Thi Thanh Huong defines " Testing and evaluating learning outcomes as the process of collecting and processing information from learners' learning activities, comparing them with set objectives to confirm learners' learning outcomes after a period of learning and providing feedback to help improve teaching and learning " (Can Thi Thanh Huong, 2011).

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Thus, the activity of testing and evaluating the learning outcomes of English students at school is not simply a recognition of the results of teaching and learning English, but also proposes decisions to change the current situation for the better. Therefore, the activity of testing and evaluating the learning outcomes of English students aims to:

Firstly, clarify the level of achievement and non-achievement of teaching objectives, knowledge level, skills and attitudes of students, thereby determining the level of quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning activities of English.

Second, detect errors and adjust activities to achieve the intended purpose: find errors and deviations in students' perception, help students adjust their activities.

learning, while also providing teachers with feedback to promptly adjust their teaching activities.

To achieve the above requirements, managers and English teachers need to:

+ Grasp the requirements and regulations on test content and assessment of student learning outcomes;

+ Testing and assessment activities must be appropriate to the curriculum and appropriate to each subject;

+ Implement training for excellent students from the beginning of the school year;

+ Implement tutoring for weak students from the beginning of the school year.

1.4. Managing English teaching activities in secondary schools

1.4.1. Objectives of managing English teaching activities in secondary schools

The goal of managing English teaching activities is to ensure that English teaching activities are in accordance with the general objectives of the subject, while ensuring that teaching activities achieve the planned results, contributing to the completion of the school's general objectives.

The demand for intellectual resources to serve society is increasing, the requirements for information technology are extremely necessary, so the goal of managing English teaching activities of the teacher is to improve the quality of teaching and learning English in schools. Teachers in schools need to focus on key tasks in the process of managing English teaching activities, clearly defining basic goals such as:

+ Ensure the quality of the TA teaching process;

+ Building a strong English teacher team;

+ Use of subject-specific equipment;

+ Check the English professional team, evaluate the team's activities, and have a timely adjustment plan.

Grasp the requirements and regulations on lesson preparation

Teaching correctly distributes the curriculum according to each grade level. Sufficient knowledge and skills in teaching.

Have a lesson plan

Teacher's lesson preparation

Implement lesson plans according to program distribution

Implement innovation in teaching methods and use of teaching aids through observation and demonstration lessons.

1.3.3.3. Implement innovation in teaching methods, use of equipment and teaching aids in teaching English at school

Implementing innovation in teaching methods (PPGD), effectively using equipment and teaching aids (DDDH) in teaching English.

Implement the use of software in English teaching, prepare electronic lesson plans

1.3.3.4. Conduct testing and evaluation of English learning outcomes of students at school.

Second, detect errors and adjust activities to achieve the intended purpose: find errors and deviations in students' perception, help students adjust their learning activities, and at the same time provide teachers with feedback to promptly adjust their teaching activities.

To achieve the above requirements, managers and English teachers need to:

+ Grasp the requirements and regulations on test content and assessment of student learning outcomes;

+ Testing and assessment activities must be appropriate to the curriculum and appropriate to each subject;

+ Implement training for excellent students from the beginning of the school year;

+ Implement tutoring for weak students from the beginning of the school year.

1.4. Managing English teaching activities in secondary schools

1.4.1. Objectives of managing English teaching activities in secondary schools

+ Ensure the quality of the TA teaching process;

+ Building a strong English teacher team;

+ Use of subject-specific equipment;

+ Check the English professional team, evaluate the team's activities, and have a timely adjustment plan.

1.4. Managing English teaching activities in secondary schools

1.4.1. Objectives of managing English teaching activities in secondary schools

The demand for intellectual resources to serve society is increasing, the requirements for information technology are extremely necessary, so the goal of managing English teaching activities of the HT is to improve the quality of teaching and learning English in schools. The HT in the school needs to focus on key tasks in the process of managing English teaching activities, clearly defining the basic goals such as:

- Ensure the quality of the TA teaching process;

- Building a strong English teacher team;

- Use of subject-specific equipment;

- Check the English professional team, evaluate the team's activities, and have a timely adjustment plan.

1.4.2. Content of managing English teaching activities in junior high schools

1.4.2.1. Managing teaching preparation activities

Manage the preparation of lesson plans through the system of regulations, documents, and requirements of the school. The system of documents has been instructed and approved from the beginning of the school year, specifically, such as regulations on plan forms for each type of lesson ; direct and guide the professional team and teachers to make unified lesson plans according to the objectives, content, methods, forms, and specifics for each type of lesson right from the beginning of the school year . In addition, it is necessary to ensure that teachers have adequate textbooks, reference materials, and facilities ; together with the professional team, organize discussions and exchanges on the implementation of lesson planning such as: making sample lesson plans; agreeing on objectives, innovating teaching methods, applying information technology in lessons; exchanging experiences in preparing good lessons; signing and approving lesson plans periodically, promptly supporting teachers when they encounter difficulties in preparing lesson plans.

HT organizes the implementation of subject objectives for each grade level;

HT deploys English teaching content and program for Professional Group and English teachers;

Implementing the objectives, contents, programs and teaching plans is implementing the training plan according to the Law on Education and the State Ordinance issued by the Ministry of Education and Training, and implementing it in accordance with the school's regulations.

Comply with the regulations on the subject program, distribute the program of each class according to each stage of the school year.

The English program for junior high school is a document that stipulates the objectives of the English subject at each grade level, the standards of knowledge and skills of the subject, necessary suggestions on teaching methods and means, and at the same time provides forms of assessment for the subject. Managers (HT) need to have a firm grasp of the English teaching plan and program, thereby managing the construction of teaching plans in the school in a focused and reasonable manner. This helps the management entity to carry out many other activities in the school effectively.

To manage the implementation of goals, content, and English teaching programs, managers need to pay attention to the following:

- Disseminate, organize learning, discuss plans, teaching programs, professional regulations in foreign language professional groups; direct the development of school professional plans, teaching plans (by year, month, week) of professional groups, teaching plans of teachers, teaching plans for each lesson in a specific manner;

- Review the teaching plans and programs of the professional group and teachers, analyze, discuss, agree and approve the teaching plans and programs of each subject;

- Direct the development of timetables to ensure that teachers properly and fully implement the curriculum;

- Assign to the Vice Principal and the Head of the Department to guide, monitor, supervise, check and evaluate the implementation of the teaching program.

HT directs the implementation of training and improvement of teachers' professional qualifications;

Faced with the increasing demands of society, as more and more international organizations enter the Vietnamese market, training high-quality human resources is extremely necessary. In addition to professional knowledge, good foreign language skills are a prerequisite for effectively applying modern equipment, serving the job well.

To have such high quality human resources, student training must start right at school. If students want to study well, it requires teachers.

must be good at their profession as well as effectively apply teaching methods. That is why professional training is always a top priority in management. Training and improving the profession for teachers in general and TA teachers in particular is one of the regular and necessary tasks in the process of school management. TA teachers are a team that needs regular professional training, because after graduating, TA teachers have few favorable conditions to communicate in English with native speakers, only use some common sentence patterns in class, and their language knowledge is also gradually limited. Therefore, managers need to create conditions for TA teachers to always update their knowledge and practice their profession.

In addition to training and professional development courses organized by the Ministry and the Department of Education and Training, professional development for teachers can be organized in many different forms at schools such as observing classes in groups and blocks, giving feedback; assigning teachers with a lot of teaching experience to guide new teachers who have no experience; teachers who are good at information technology, guiding teachers who have not applied advanced technology in teaching. The HT develops a plan for professional development for teachers, directs, organizes implementation, and checks and evaluates each stage.

The Principal directs the preparation of facilities and equipment to serve the innovation of teaching methods.

1.4.2.2. Management of English teaching implementation

Class time is an important step in the teaching and learning process, playing a decisive role in the quality of teaching. To manage the implementation of the English lesson plan, the manager must effectively influence class time, and must have measures to create conditions for teachers to teach effectively, specifically as follows:

- Organize instructions on requirements and regulations on lesson preparation;

- Organize and distribute curriculum according to each grade level;

- Organize and implement standards of knowledge and skills in teaching;

- Direct and guide the development of lesson plans;

- Manage teacher lesson preparation by defining teacher lesson objectives;

- Manage the implementation of teachers' lesson plans by checking teaching schedules; implement reasonable timetables and teaching hours such as giving priority to teachers far from school and teachers with children;

- Manage the implementation of teachers' lesson plans by checking the implementation of program distribution;

- Check the innovation of teaching methods and the use of teaching aids through observed and demonstrated lessons by teachers. During the inspection, the teacher comments, evaluates, and proposes measures to correct limitations;

- Create conditions to support subject-specific teaching aids such as projectors, TVs... so that teachers can apply IT in teaching.

- Unify regulations on information regime on absent classes, substitute teaching, and make-up teaching when teachers are absent from class.

* Manage teacher observation, demonstration, and evaluation of teaching hours.

Observing teachers' lessons is an indispensable activity in the management of teachers' lesson plans. When observing lessons, managers need to clearly understand the following requirements:

- Grasp teaching theory in general and lesson theory in particular;

- Understand the structure and function of a class period;

- Have knowledge of innovative teaching methods, especially teaching forms and specific teaching methods of English;

- Ability to analyze lessons, make comments and suggestions for lessons to bring the highest efficiency;

- Have a clear plan and form of class observation right from the beginning of the school year such as organizing demonstration teaching in schools, school clusters, demonstration teaching in groups... The principal, vice principal, and center must agree on the process of class observation, draw experience for the lesson, discuss and make recommendations with the teaching teachers.

* Manage professional team activities.

For the educational activities to be effective and of high quality, good management of professional groups is an indispensable requirement in the process of school management. Only when the professional groups operate well can the quality gradually improve, and the head is the HT, followed by the PHT and

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