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Whole-child development Learning about different cultures helps students to enrich
Tiếng Anh Family and Friends National Edition promotes positive their knowledge of other countries and appreciate the values
of their own and other cultures.
whole-child development through the inclusion of 21st
century learning, culture, values throughout the materials and Values
the promotion of parental involvement. Values, which can also be called civic education, are a key
strand in Tiếng Anh Family and Friends National Edition.
21st Century Learning Teaching values is important as it focuses on the whole child,
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, today’s not just language skills. It improves children’s awareness of
young students must develop strong skills in the four Cs: good behavior and how their behavior and attitudes can
creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking. impact on the people around them and their environment.
Creativity Areas for values teaching include helping children to
Creativity is an essential 21st Century Skill. Students who understand about:
exercise and demonstrate creativity are better prepared to • Community, e.g. agreeing and following school rules,
make changes, solve the problem, and express themselves understanding the needs of people and other living
clearly. Creativity can be fostered through project work and things, understanding what improves and harms their
other arts-based hands-on experiences. However, creativity environment, contributing to the life of the class and school.
is also about thinking processes. Creative thinking can be • Health and hygiene, e.g. understanding the basics of
encouraged through asking students interesting questions healthy eating, maintaining personal hygiene, rules for
and having them ask their own questions. Using different keeping safe around the house and on the road.
techniques to approach problem solving also helps students • Interacting with others, e.g. listening to other people,
to internalize meaning in a personal way. Tiếng Anh Family and playing and working co-operatively, sharing, identifying,
Friends National Edition encourages creativity through the use and respecting the differences and similarities between
of interesting texts which stimulate personal responses and people, helping others in need.
projects which require them to problem solve and express Values are reinforced in the Values worksheets in the Printable
themselves. Resources. There is one worksheet per unit.
Collaboration Involving parents
Collaboration requires direct communication between Learning involves a co-operative relationship between home
students, which strengthens the skills of listening and speaking, and school, it is important to establish clear communication
and the associated skills of turn-taking, clarifying, explaining, with parents to encourage home support. The following are
and discussing. Students who work together often achieve suggestions about possible ways of doing this:
better results, as they benefit from each other’s strengths. But • Keep parents informed about what their children are
they also develop a sense of team spirit and pride throughout learning and their progress. Parents might benefit from
the process. Tiếng Anh Family and Friends National Edition receiving newsletters listing what children are now able
offers opportunities for collaboration in every unit. Whether to do, which words and phrases they are studying, which
it is through project work, group games or team discussions, songs or stories they know, and the types of exam practice
students are sharing ideas, expressing personal opinions, and they have done.
developing important social skills.
• Organize a concert or parents’ afternoon where the children
Communication can perform the unit stories, plays, and the songs that they
Communication forms an important part of collaboration. have learned, along with their actions.
Students need to learn the skills of listening, speaking, reading,
and writing to effectively take part in an age of rapid change.
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, today’s oxfordparents
young students must develop skills that allow them to Help your child with English
communicate in a variety of ways, including oral and written
skills, but also digital communication skills. Oxford Parents is a website where your students’ parents
Critical thinking can find out how they can help their child with English.
They can find lots of activities to do in the home or in
Students in the 21st Century need to do more than acquire everyday life. Even if the parent has little or no English,
information. They need to be able to analyze the information they can still find ways to help. We have lots of activities
by making sense of it critically. Critical thinking skills help and videos to show parents how to do this.
students to determine facts, prioritize information, understand Studies have shown that practicing English outside the
relationships, solve problems, and deal with an ever changing classroom can help children become more confident
world. Tiếng Anh Family and Friends National Edition encourages using the language. If they speak English with their
children to think about language, to focus on meaning and parents, they will see how English can be used in real-life
to react to the world of English in a personal way. Subject situations and this can increase the students’ motivation.
areas are introduced so that students can make connections
between content and language, interesting facts are presented, Parents can help by practicing stories, songs, and
and children are invited to be curious and questioning. vocabulary that the students have already learned in the
classroom. Tell your students’ parents to visit
Culture www.oup.com/elt/oxfordparents and have fun helping

Tiếng Anh Family and Friends National Edition presents culture their children with English!
content from Viet Nam and a variety of other countries.
9 Introduction