To make learning more effective, teachers need to be liberated from daily worries and reduce monotonous, time-consuming tasks. On average, more than 80% of a teacher’s time is spent on “ineffective” tasks such as updating information, preparing lesson plans, grading papers, writing reports, and providing comments.
So what should teachers spend their main time doing? They should refine their professional qualifications, learn the most effective teaching methods, and help personalize learning for each student by providing timely feedback and addressing the weakest points in each student’s knowledge, instead of teaching in a “one-size-fits-all” manner to all students in a class.
And even more importantly: teachers should enjoy their own personal lives. A classroom cannot be effective and a school cannot be a place worth studying at if the teachers are not happy. I often joke with my colleagues working in education: Your job is “to make sure teachers have time to go home in the evening to hug their spouses, play with their kids, take a walk, and relax.”
And when liberated from useless daily chores, teachers can focus on doing an extremely important job: inspiring students.
According to Anders Ericsson, the world’s leading researcher on expert performance theory, to reach the peak in skill mastery, learners cannot do without the extremely vital contribution of a teacher in two aspects:
- continuous feedback;
- inspiring motivation.
In order to help liberate Vietnamese K-12 teachers from 90% of their time spent on useless work, I would like to share with fellow teachers the platform for automatic exam creation and grading, applying Big Data and Adaptive Learning by 789.vn, a new member of EQuest Education Group.
With 789.vn, teachers and schools can generate exam papers from a database of hundreds of thousands of quality-tested questions, allowing students to take exams online via computers or smartphones. Exam papers are exported into beautifully formatted files, graded, and results are statistically analyzed and compared with hundreds of thousands of students nationwide. All in just a few minutes, compared to hours spent hunched over preparing lessons, grading papers, and printing tests in the past. With technology solutions applying Big Data and Adaptive Learning, 789.vn will help teachers be happier, more effective, and subsequently teach better and inspire better!
