Teachers are reduced by a maximum of 8 periods/week.

According to the latest regulations, teachers in charge of classes and teachers in charge of positions are assessed with a maximum teaching level of 8 periods/week.

The above content is stipulated in Circular 05/2025 recently issued by the Ministry of Education and Training regulating the working regime for general education and university preparatory teachers. This Circular takes effect from April 2, replacing Circular 28/2009.

Accordingly, the working time in the school year of principals, vice principals, and teachers of general schools is 42 weeks, of which the number of weeks teaching the contents of the general education program is 37 weeks.

The teaching quota for primary school teachers is 23 periods, secondary school teachers is 19 periods, high school teachers is 17 periods. Teachers of ethnic boarding schools are regulated to have 2 periods lower, respectively 21, 17 and 15 periods.

Teachers are reduced to a maximum of 8 periods per week. (Illustration: CH)

The Circular also stipulates the regime of reducing teaching hours, including:

• Homeroom teachers in high schools have 4 periods reduced per week.
• The head of a professional group or head of a subject group will have 3 periods reduced per week; the deputy head of a professional group or deputy head of a subject group will have 1 period reduced per week...
• Teachers who are also party secretaries or party cell secretaries (where no party cell is established) in schools with 28 or more classes in regions 2 and 3, or 19 or more classes in region 1 will have their teaching hours reduced by 4 periods/week; in the remaining schools, their teaching hours will be reduced by 3 periods/week.
• Part-time positions are reduced by 3 periods/week such as: Head teacher of university preparatory school, part-time teacher of information technology (in charge of all computer rooms), clerk, librarian (in charge of the library room), support work for education of people with disabilities, female teachers raising children under 12 months old.
• When the school does not have equipment and laboratory staff, teachers who are also in charge of subject classrooms (except for the computer room) will have 3 periods/subject/week reduced, and those in charge of educational equipment rooms will have 3 periods/week reduced.
• Part-time positions are reduced by 2 periods/week such as: Teacher and school board chairman, school board secretary, head of school people's inspection committee, during probation period...
• Teachers who concurrently hold trade union work, school-level union secretary and deputy secretary are subject to a reduction in teaching hours according to separate regulations.
• For teachers who concurrently hold academic affairs and student counseling positions, the principal shall decide to ensure that the principles are consistent with the amount of work assigned to them concurrently.

Thus, the total number of reductions for all teachers who are also in charge of teaching work is not higher than 8 periods/week.

The Circular also stipulates a reduction in quotas for many other positions. Each teacher cannot hold more than two concurrent positions.

Convert other professional activities into teaching periods

Another point is that Circular 05 stipulates the conversion of 1 direct (or online) teaching period to 1 standard period for professional activities such as: Online teaching according to the school's education plan (not organized by class) where the number of students participating in the study is less than the average total number of students of the 2 classes; teaching students to review for entrance exams and graduation exams.

Teachers are allowed to convert 1 direct teaching period (or online) into 1.5 standard periods for the following professional activities: Presenting at training classes, professional development for teachers organized by the principal or competent authority (including core teachers); teaching demonstrations at planned professional activities.

Other activities are also converted to the above level such as: Reporting at extracurricular activities, teaching experiential activities or experiential activities, career guidance; teaching online according to the school's education plan for 2 or more classes.

Teachers participating in tutoring students or teaching extra classes for students whose final semester's study results are not at the level according to the school's education plan, 1 direct teaching period can be converted to a maximum of 1.5 standard periods.

Teachers participating in training excellent students, training students to participate in Phu Dong Sports Festival, training students to participate in National Defense and Security Education Sports Festival, guiding students to participate in science and technology competitions, guiding students to participate in student competitions with startup ideas according to the school's education plan, 1 direct teaching period (or online) can be converted to a maximum of 2 standard periods.

Teachers assigned to be judges in planned school-level teacher competitions or festivals (competitions or festivals according to regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training) will have 1 period of direct judging counted as 1 standard period.

The principal determines the specific conversion of teaching periods based on the scale.

Minh Khoi

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