Specifically, voters of Thanh Hoa province requested the Ministry of Education and Training to consider adjusting the teaching of integrated subjects at secondary school level to ensure effectiveness in teaching and learning activities and consistency with the high school education program.

Regarding this issue, the Ministry of Education and Training cited Resolution No. 88/2014/QH13 of the National Assembly on innovation of general education programs and textbooks, which clearly defined the content of innovation, including: "At primary and secondary levels, integrate related contents of a number of educational fields and subjects in the current curriculum to form integrated subjects; streamline and avoid overlapping educational content, and reasonably reduce the number of subjects."

To implement Resolution 88, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Circular 32/2018/TT-BGDDT on the General Education Program (hereinafter referred to as the 2018 General Education Program) specifying the goals and contents of Resolution 88.

Accordingly, the 2018 General Education Program for Secondary School has Natural Science integrated from Physics, Chemistry and Biology; History and Geography integrated from History and Geography to facilitate the exploitation of specific teaching contents comprehensively from many aspects.

The History and Geography program includes the History sub-subject and the Geography sub-subject, each sub-subject is designed according to its own content circuit, in which many related teaching contents are arranged close together to support each other; History content is integrated in suitable parts of Geography content and Geography content is integrated in suitable parts of History content.

The Natural Science program includes the following topics: Matter and its transformation, Living things, Energy and transformation, Earth and the sky. The topics are arranged mainly according to linear logic, combined to a certain extent with a concentric structure, and at the same time there are some interdisciplinary and integrated topics to form general principles and laws of the natural world.

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Identifying these as new subjects, the Ministry of Education and Training has guided schools to enhance innovation in teaching methods and testing and assessment according to the orientation of developing students' capacity, which has been guided and trained by the Ministry for many years and this continues to be applied when teaching according to the new program.

From the current program, the exploitation of lesson content from many aspects in an integrated direction (Geography knowledge in History lessons and vice versa, Chemistry and Biology knowledge in Physics lessons and vice versa) has been implemented for many years.

No need for teachers to prepare for integrated teaching

In addition, the Ministry of Education and Training also issued a guidance document on October 10, 2023 and provided training to all teachers teaching these two subjects nationwide.

In particular, the assignment of teachers to teach Natural Sciences and History and Geography ensures the suitability of teachers' trained professional capacity with the assigned teaching content.

For example, in the Natural Science subject, teachers will be assigned according to the content streams of Matter and its transformation, Energy and transformation, Living things, Earth and the sky; a teacher who is not yet professionally prepared will not be required to teach the entire subject program.

The assignment of trained and professionally developed teachers to teach two content streams or the entire subject program must be carried out step by step, ensuring the requirements on teachers' professional capacity to ensure teaching quality.

Regular testing and evaluation are carried out during the teaching process; teachers who teach a subject conduct testing and evaluation on that subject.

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