Although the 2018 General Education Program aims to reduce the knowledge load for students, when schools focus too much on scores, achievements, and teaching effectiveness of teachers to evaluate, classify, and compete... it will also put pressure on students.
Students receive "consequences"
Specifically, schools rely on scores (average score of subjects taught in the semester, school year; mid-term and final exam scores) to evaluate and classify teachers, which will create pressure for teachers.
This leads to the consequence that teachers also create pressure on students. Teachers who want high scores will give more homework and require students to study more.
Focusing too much on scores, teachers only focus on test content, cut down on lessons, review this lesson carefully and ignore that lesson, leading to students learning lopsidedly, "teaching and learning according to the test".
For example, in the previous literature subject, the program was built to include many types of texts (art, information, daily life...), but the exam still focused on artistic texts (poetry, stories...) with a number of fixed works. This facilitated the study of model texts.
With the new curriculum, the test questions have been "transformed", but still focus heavily on scores and knowledge, and underestimate skills. Therefore, students are still forced into a mold and lose creativity in learning.
The new program has many ways to evaluate and test students.
What is the solution?
The 2018 General Education Program is not heavy on scores, many subjects replace score assessment with comments (pass and fail).
Teachers also have the right to evaluate students in many ways according to Circular 22 of 2021 of the Ministry of Education and Training, including: tests (on paper or on computer), practice tests, projects, products...
To avoid teachers putting pressure on students, leaders of some schools such as Phu Nhuan High School (Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City) "untied" teachers by not organizing centralized mid-term exams.
Schools need to have appropriate solutions to reduce pressure on both students and teachers to ensure the spirit of reducing workload of the 2018 General Education Program.
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Instead, schools let teachers teach self-testing in class, and the school manages the creation and implementation of questions. Some schools assign subject groups to manage, and let students take tests in class at a time agreed upon by the whole school.
The principal of a high school in Ho Chi Minh City stated: "The school has stopped evaluating teachers' teaching performance for 2 years now. Because it is inconsistent with the new program, unfair to teachers and creates unnecessary pressure."
Not putting pressure on teachers about grades will relieve some of the "rock of pressure" weighing down on students' shoulders regarding their studies.
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