Voters in Hai Phong City reported that the Ministry of Education and Training, when developing textbooks according to the 2018 General Education Program, did not pay attention to teacher resources, so when implementing, many schools encountered a shortage of teachers to teach integrated subjects such as natural sciences.
Teaching integrated subjects in the context of a lack of qualified teachers has voters worried about quality (illustrative photo)
To overcome this situation, some units send physics, chemistry or biology teachers to attend short-term training courses, and are granted certificates to teach subjects not taught in teacher training schools, leading to poor teaching quality.
Voters recommend that the Ministry of Education and Training pay attention to and direct the resolution of this inadequacy, ensuring the quality of education and meeting the requirements of educational innovation. Accordingly, for schools lacking teachers to teach natural sciences, the Ministry of Education and Training is requested to provide guidance and permission to organize parallel teaching of physics, chemistry, and biology in natural sciences according to the school's conditions instead of teaching according to the knowledge flow in textbooks; direct pedagogical schools nationwide to immediately train teachers to teach integrated natural sciences to have a source of teachers for schools.
Respond in writing to this matter, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said: "To implement teaching of natural sciences, history and geography according to the 2018 General Education Program, it is impossible to replace all physics, chemistry, biology, history and geography teachers, but it is still necessary to train this team of teachers to teach natural sciences, history and geography".
The Ministry of Education and Training has issued a training program for secondary school teachers teaching natural sciences, history and geography so that localities can develop plans, coordinate with training institutions, train teachers and send teachers to participate in training to meet the requirements of implementing the 2018 General Education Program according to a roadmap suitable to the actual situation of the locality.
According to Minister Kim Son, the organization of teaching natural sciences, history and geography has been assigned to teachers by the Ministry of Education and Training for current subjects. Accordingly, based on the situation of the school's teaching staff, the principal assigns teachers to teach topics appropriate to the teachers' professional capacity.
When a subject has multiple teachers in charge of each content, the school needs to develop a suitable timetable, which does not necessarily divide the number of periods/week equally; if necessary, it may not be possible to arrange to teach that subject in some weeks (based on ensuring the program for each semester) to ensure the standard teaching hours/week of the assigned teachers.
The head of the education and training sector added: "The Ministry of Education and Training has also assigned teacher training institutions to open a code for teacher training in natural sciences, history and geography; at the same time, issued a circular regulating training for second graduation degrees at university and college levels in teacher training groups.
Currently, most teacher training institutions have opened major codes and are training teachers to gradually replace retired teachers, supplementing recruitment sources for localities.
Previously, in August 2023, at an online meeting with teachers nationwide, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son said that the implementation of interdisciplinary integration was a "new point, a difficult point, a bottleneck" when implementing the 2018 General Education Program.
Based on the actual implementation, the Ministry of Education and Training will decide to consider adjusting the teaching of integrated subjects at secondary school level. This may be a major adjustment but it is consistent with the requirements of educational innovation.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/cu-tri-van-lo-lang-ve-day-hoc-mon-tich-hop-bo-truong-gd-dt-noi-gi-185241018092950109.htm
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