Content of Managing Educational Activities on Life Values and Life Skills in High Schools

for the joy of life. This skill also helps to end relationships when necessary in a constructive manner.

Communication skills are essential for many other skills such as expressing sympathy, negotiating, cooperating, seeking help, resolving conflicts, and controlling emotions. People with good communication skills know how to reconcile the expectations of others, behave when working with and being with others in a group environment, care about what others care about, and help them achieve what they want in a legitimate way.

iii, Cooperation skills: Cooperation is working together, helping and supporting each other in a job or a certain field for a common purpose. Cooperation skills are the ability of an individual to share responsibility, commit and work effectively with other members of the group.

Signs of a person with cooperative skills:

- Respect the group's common goals and objectives; respect common decisions and commitments.

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- Know how to communicate effectively, respect, unite and sympathize, share with other members in the group.

- Know how to express opinions and participate in building group activity plans. At the same time, know how to listen, respect, and consider the opinions and viewpoints of everyone in the group.

- Strive to promote your own abilities and strengths to complete assigned tasks well. At the same time, know how to support and help other members during the operation.

- Know how to work together with the whole group to overcome difficulties and obstacles to complete common goals and objectives.

- Responsible for the successes or failures of the group and the products created by the group.

Having cooperation skills is an important requirement for citizens in a modern society, because:

- Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Cooperation at work helps people support and complement each other, creating intellectual and spiritual strength.

mentally and physically, overcome difficulties, bring higher quality and efficiency to the common work.

- In modern society, the interests of each individual and each community depend on each other and are bound together; each person is like a detail of a large machine, must operate synchronously and rhythmically, and cannot act alone.

- Cooperation skills also help individuals live in harmony and avoid conflicts in relationships with others.

To have effective cooperation, we need to make good use of many other life skills such as: self-awareness, determining values, communication, showing sympathy, taking responsibility, making decisions, resolving conflicts, perseverance, coping with stress, etc.

iv, Time management skills: Time management skills are the ability of people to know how to arrange tasks in order of priority, and to focus on solving key tasks within a certain period of time.

This skill is essential for problem solving, planning, setting goals and achieving them; and also helps people avoid stress due to work pressure.

Time management is one of the important skills in the group of self-mastery skills. Good time management contributes significantly to the success of individuals and groups.

v, Problem solving skills: Problem solving skills are the ability of an individual to know how to decide and choose the optimal solution and act according to the chosen solution to solve problems or situations encountered in life. Problem solving is related to decision making skills and requires many other life skills such as: Communication, determining values, critical thinking, creative thinking, seeking support, perseverance...

Like decision-making skills, problem-solving skills are very important, helping people to respond positively and effectively to life's problems and situations....

In addition, there are some other skills such as: Responsibility skills, Emotional control skills...

1.4. Content of management of life values and life skills education activities in high schools

1.4.1. Managing educational goals of life skills education - life values for students

GTS-KNS education management will improve the effectiveness of GTS-KNS education, improve the quality of education. Contribute to promoting the potential of schools and society, creating unity in GTS-KNS education in particular, and realizing the goals of high school education in general.

The goal of general education is to provide comprehensive training in ethics, intelligence, aesthetics and basic skills to form the personality of a socialist Vietnamese person, a personality that fully contains the virtues of a new Vietnamese person.

+ Enhance understanding of good traditional values of the nation, know how to absorb good values of humanity and the times; consolidate and expand knowledge learned in class, have a sense of responsibility towards oneself and society, have a sense of choosing a future career for oneself.

+ Firmly consolidate the basic skills that have been trained since primary school to continue developing the main capacities such as: self-improvement capacity, communication and behavior capacity, adaptability capacity, socio-political activity capacity, organizational and management capacity, cooperation and healthy competition capacity..., have a lifestyle in accordance with social values.

+ Cultivate a scientific outlook on life and worldview to have the right attitude towards life's problems; know how to take responsibility for one's own behavior and actively fight against the wrongdoings of others; have interest and need to participate in common activities; be proactive and flexible in collective activities; know how to perceive and appreciate the beauty in life.

Equip students with appropriate knowledge, life values, attitudes and skills. Form healthy, positive behaviors and habits in students, eliminate negative behaviors and habits in relationships, situations and daily activities.

GTS-KNS education is the ability to master oneself, the ability to recognize and behave appropriately with others and with society, the ability to respond to life situations. Thus, KNS aims to help children

people who change their perceptions, attitudes and values in actions in a positive and constructive direction.

1.4.2. Managing GTS-KNS educational content suitable for high school students

GTS-KNS education helps high school students form a system of life values such as peace, social justice, respect, solidarity, honesty, friendship, altruism... on that basis, forming skills such as: Communication skills; Cognitive and behavioral adjustment skills; Stress control/coping skills; Collaboration and teamwork skills; Problem solving skills; Active listening skills; Empathy skills; Assertiveness and decision making skills; Persuasion and negotiation skills; Presentation skills; Goal setting and goal implementation planning skills; Questioning skills; Multi-sensory learning skills; Creative thinking skills; Positive praise and criticism skills; Positive thinking skills, maintaining an optimistic attitude; Adaptation skills; Assessment and self-assessment skills...

1.4.3. Managing the form and method of organizing and implementing GTS - KNS education for high school students

* GTS-KNS education management

Currently, there is no subject of GTS-KNS education. GTS-KNS education is only integrated into some subjects, but the content of GTS-KNS education is often overshadowed or not mentioned due to the heavy curriculum.

Therefore, some main forms of GTS-KNS education can be mentioned as follows:

With its own characteristics, extracurricular educational activities are good conditions for schools to organize GTS-KNS education for students.

Integrate and integrate this educational content into activities and curriculum in schools. Currently, GTS-KNS education for students has been integrated into extracurricular activities and in some subjects of Biology, Geography, Literature, History, etc.

Integrating GTS-KNS education with extracurricular activities through art competitions associated with educating traditional cultural values of the nation and homeland.

Coordinate with the Youth Union and the Police to organize training programs and educate students on necessary legal knowledge and traffic safety while still in school.

Coordinate with the Youth Union organizations, in schools also regularly guide children to read stories with meaningful moral education,...

Teaching GTS-KNS through outdoor games helps children understand lessons based on their feelings about songs, humorous stories, moral lessons, literary and artistic works... so that they can reflect and draw their own meaning from the lessons.

In addition, the form of GTS-KNS education also integrates GTS-KNS education content in flag-raising activities, during playtime, school entrance and exit times, mealtimes, breaks, activities, and especially integrates GTS-KNS education content through cultural, sports, labor, social activities, etc. organized by the school and integrates GTS-KNS education content in the activities of the Youth Union.

* GTS-KNS educational method management

Managing the TGS-KNS education method is organizing active educational methods with the participation of learners through methods such as: games, songs, group discussions, situation analysis, role-playing, brainstorming, etc.

+ Discussion method: Discussion is a special form of group interaction in which members solve a problem of common concern in order to reach a common understanding. Discussion creates an opportunity for students to verify their opinions, have the opportunity to get to know each other, and understand each other better.

+ Role-playing is widely used to achieve the goal of changing students’ attitudes towards a certain issue or subject. Role-playing is a method of organizing students to practice “trying out” certain behaviors in a hypothetical situation. This is a teaching method that aims to help students think deeply about an issue by focusing on a specific event that they observe. The “acting” is not the main part of this method and rather the most important thing is the discussion after the performance.

Problem Solving Method: Problem Solving Method is an important way to promote students' initiative. Problems are good questions.

The tasks are set out for which there are no established rules for solving them, and the available knowledge and skills are not enough to solve them, but there are still difficulties and obstacles that need to be overcome.

Situation handling method: A situation is a real-life situation that contains contradictions. A decision must be made based on considering different options. Situations in education are real situations or simulated real situations, structured for educational purposes.

Method of assigning tasks: Assigning tasks is to put students in a certain position, forcing them to fulfill personal responsibilities. In organizing GTS-KNS educational activities, assigning tasks to the class cadres will create a proactive position for students when managing activities. That will help develop students' initiative, creativity, and ability to respond in all situations.

Game method: Game method can be used in many different situations of GTS-KNS education such as getting acquainted, providing and receiving knowledge, evaluating results, practicing skills and reinforcing much of the knowledge that has been received.

Brainstorming method : Brainstorming is a method that helps students generate many ideas and assumptions about a problem in a short time. This is a method that has little to (pull out) a list of information.

Above are some methods of organizing GTS-KNS education applied from educational methods and teaching methods. However, when applying these methods, teachers need to be flexible, avoid applying mechanically or stereotyped. In an activity, it is possible to combine many different methods to be more effective.

Requirement of methods for applying GTS-KNS education.

- Based on the established plan, the implementation method must be extremely flexible and appropriate to achieve the required goals.

- Exploit the potential of schools, families and social organizations.

- There are many diverse and rich forms for students to truly promote their role as subjects and be creative in all activities.

1.4.4. Managing conditions for GTS-KNS educational activities for students

+ Build mechanisms to coordinate forces in the school to educate students about life skills and life skills.

- Promote the role and functions of the Youth Union and Youth Union branches, increase collective activities according to each activity theme and club to attract students to participate in useful activities.

- Coordinate between homeroom teachers and subject teachers to manage students well in class.

- Parents sign a commitment to cooperate with the school to educate their children.

- Organize parent meetings to report on students' learning and training results.

- Meeting with parents of students who violate school rules and other ethical behaviors

+ Coordinate with relevant agencies to educate GTS-KNS for students (provincial youth union, district youth union, police, health...)

- Coordinate with organizations in the school and locality, family and society. Invite the representative of parents to participate in the school's reward and discipline council. Notify the locality of individual students, coordinate with the locality and family to educate together. It is necessary to change the space and position of each group in each educational activity, ensuring the group operates effectively, and the pair progresses together.

During the organization process, it is necessary to create a comfortable, confident, and bold atmosphere for students to freely express their own thoughts. Teachers should not impose a single, unchanging opinion, but should pay attention to listening to students' opinions, promoting their proactiveness and creativity. In addition, it is necessary to diversify educational activities, combining with educational forces inside and outside the school.

1.5. Factors affecting the management of life values education - life skills for students in high schools

1.5.1. General education goals and life skills education requirements

Education plays a role as both a goal and a driving force for socio-economic development, so our Party and State pay special attention to prioritizing education development. In the strategic orientation for education development to 2020, the Ministry of Education and Training has affirmed the viewpoints on developing high school education in the period of industrialization and modernization of the country, including: According to Article 27 of the Law on Education, "High school education aims to help students consolidate and develop the results of lower secondary education, complete general education and have understanding of the

general knowledge of techniques and career orientation, having conditions to develop personal capacity to choose a development direction, continue to study at university, college, intermediate school, vocational school or enter the working life". According to the Charter of high schools and general schools with many levels issued with Decision No. 07/2007/QD - BGDĐT dated April 2, 2007 of the Ministry of Education and Training.

To educate GTS-KNS for high school students, it is necessary to:

- Schools need to clearly recognize the role of GTS-KNS education in order to have positive educational measures and methods for students.

- The school must create all favorable conditions to help teachers and students in teaching GTS-KNS. The facilities must be suitable and meet the standards expected in the lesson (classrooms must meet standards to serve teaching well, teaching equipment must always be improved and suitable for the subject, funding for organizing teaching and extracurricular activities...).

- Create the most positive and favorable working environment for GTS-KNS educational activities to take place smoothly and achieve high results.

- The school needs to mobilize many support resources from social organizations, unions, and parents' associations, both materially and spiritually.

- The school must always have a plan to coordinate between homeroom teachers, subject teachers, school organizations, and management staff in educating GTS-KNS.

1.5.2. School staff and teachers

The qualifications, capacity, and qualities of the teaching staff and the teachers' efforts to improve themselves have an impact on the effectiveness of GTS-KNS education management for high school students.

The cause of industrialization and modernization of the country is in great need of qualified and high-quality teachers. Therefore, it requires the teaching staff to meet the requirements of qualifications, capacity and moral qualities.

Teachers are always the ones who guide and direct students' life skills education activities. Therefore, to effectively form and develop students' problem-solving skills and decision-making skills, teachers must have solid professional qualifications: Teachers must be able to integrate life skills education content into the life skills education process in an artistic and effective way.

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