After 3 years, the provincial People's Committee is responsible for establishing a textbook selection council. From the following year, schools can be assigned this task, as in the first year of putting new books into use.
The Ministry of Education and Training issued a draft circular regulating the selection of textbooks in general schools on October 20. In which, the school's textbook selection council is established by the principal. Each school is a council.
Thus, the establishment of the textbook selection council is similar to the beginning of 2020 - the first year that textbooks under the new general education program were put into use. In the past three school years, the textbook selection council was established by the Provincial People's Committee and each subject at each level was a council, and schools were only allowed to contribute opinions.
With the policy of "one program, many textbooks", eliminating the publishing monopoly, the current books under the 2018 general education program include three sets: Connecting knowledge with life , Creative horizons and Kite, which will be put into use from 2020.
Because there are many sets of books, each subject has many books from different compilation units, leading to the need to choose books suitable to the socio-economic characteristics of the locality and the conditions for organizing teaching and learning at schools.
Letting the provincial People's Committee decide on textbook selection is considered to create problems such as creating a monopoly on textbooks in the locality or teachers and students not really being able to choose the books.
Discussing socio-economic issues at the National Assembly on June 1, delegate Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy (Da Nang) said that "there is a lack of transparency, objectivity, and respect for the opinions of teachers, schools, and parents in choosing textbooks." She proposed giving schools and teachers the right to choose books, instead of the provincial People's Committee.
Covers of some grade 4 textbooks of Vietnam Education Publishing House. Photo: Vietnam Education Publishing House
The Ministry's draft states that the textbook selection council will include the principal, vice principal, head of the professional group, teacher representative, and parent representative. The number of members must be odd, with a minimum of 11 people. Schools with less than 10 classes must have a minimum of 5 council members.
Regarding the process, all teachers of each subject will participate in selecting the textbooks for that subject. Teachers will research the books, write comments and evaluate them.
The head of the subject group will then meet with the teachers to discuss and vote on a book for each subject. The book selected must have at least half of the teachers voting. If this percentage is not met, the subject group must discuss, analyze and vote again.
After the second vote, if there is still no book chosen by more than half of the teachers, the professional group decides to choose the book with the highest number of votes in the two votes.
Based on the list selected by the professional team, the school council will discuss, evaluate, summarize the results and then propose the list to the head of the school. After that, the schools will prepare a book selection file and send it to the Department or Department of Education and Training.
Based on the results of the schools submitted by the Department of Education and Training, the Provincial People's Committee decides to approve the list of textbooks selected by local schools.
Provincial People's Committees must post on mass media the list of approved books for use in schools before April 30 every year.
During use, if there are any suggestions from teachers, students and parents, schools should propose to the Department or Department of Education and Training to adjust and supplement the list of books.
The Ministry of Education and Training will seek comments on this draft until December 20 (See draft).
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