On the occasion of November 20, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son affirmed that never before have the intellectual class, teachers, science and technology activities, innovation, education and training been valued, promoted and placed at the top of the national policy by the highest leaders of the Party and State as they are today. Teachers, regardless of their position, expect innovation to be linked to practice to fuel their "professional passion" and feel secure in their work.
Teacher Hoang Thi Huyen Trang, Principal of Be Trieu Kindergarten, Hoa An District, Cao Bang Province is one of 251 outstanding teachers honored by the Ministry of Education and Training on the occasion of November 20 this year.
One of Ms. Trang’s outstanding achievements is her initiative to improve the method of calculating food portions for children in kindergartens. This initiative has been replicated in all kindergartens in Hiep Hoa district and neighboring districts of Cao Bang province.
Teacher Huyen Trang said: “It is very easy to have food ration calculation software for schools in the city. But in remote areas with poor facilities, having software is impossible. The school does not have its own kitchen team in charge, so teachers have to take on the responsibility of calculating daily food rations for children.”
Realizing that manual calculation is both complicated, easy to make mistakes, and requires a lot of time and effort. Not only that, a wrong calculation can significantly affect the quality of the boarding meals, such as lack of food, lack of quantity per meal, lack of nutrition. Teacher Huyen Trang has researched a spreadsheet on Excel, with pre-installed calculation formulas. Teachers only need to enter input data such as the number of students, quantity per meal to calculate the detailed portion, from which the amount of food needed to be purchased or supplemented for each day, each meal.
Teacher Huyen Trang confided: “My spreadsheet does not require an internet connection and is easy to use. Teachers have less work. The quality of meals at boarding schools has improved. Children are fed well and well. After the pilot at school, we have had clear results in reducing the steps of implementation as well as improving the physical condition of children.”
15 years after graduating from Thai Nguyen University of Education, teacher Huyen Trang has been deeply attached to Cao Bang students, despite the difficult and harsh conditions in the locality.
“What keeps me in this profession is my love for children in disadvantaged areas. On November 20, the children brought me bouquets of wild sunflowers and wildflowers, along with warm words of sharing. I understand that these dirty faces and barely warm clothes need young people like us to volunteer to build a future with them,” teacher Huyen Trang emotionally shared.
Teacher Nang Xo Vi in Dak Me village, Po Y commune, Ngoc Hoi district, Kon Tum province is the youngest female National Assembly delegate in the Education sector, and is also the only delegate representing the voice of more than 500 Brau ethnic people at the National Assembly, participating in and deciding on important policies of the country.
Growing up in poverty, but thanks to the propaganda and mobilization of officials, Nang Xo Vi understood and longed to go to school and the meaning of bringing knowledge back to contribute to the development of the village.
Teacher Nang Xo Vi said: “In the whole Dak Me village, only 5-7 children go to school and later only that many will graduate from high school. Hunger and poverty, along with bad customs such as “only people of the Brau ethnic group can marry each other”, have been barriers for children to go to school and further their education.”
When the cadres introduced her to culture and knowledge, Nang Xo Vi wanted to study to change her life. In 2014, Nang Xo Vi became the first person of the Brau ethnic group to pass the university entrance exam with the help of the village chief and villagers.
Growing up from hardship, receiving help and love from those around her, and becoming a teacher, returning to her hometown to work, teacher Nang Xo Vi also gave all that love to her students.
Teacher Nang Xo Vi confided: “I love my students with the heart of an aunt, an older sister, a mother, not as a superior. I always tell my students that I am just a guide, and they are the subjects in learning and researching. A good teacher does not teach good students to be better, but teaches weak students to become better.
Giving love, teacher Nang Xo Vi also received simple, innocent and sincere feelings from her students.
“During the period when I worked in a particularly difficult border area, on holidays, Tet, or Vietnamese Teachers’ Day, the gifts that students brought me were gourds, pumpkins, and shrimps that they or their families had caught. The teacher didn’t have much to offer the students, just a big pot of sweet soup. But both she and the students were very happy,” said teacher Nang Xo Vi.
“Remembering the difficult days, the dilapidated house because I had to rent and raise a small child. My father followed me to hold my child. On every day off, my siblings came to my house to grow vegetables, raise chickens, and look after my child… Those feelings were the motivation for me to overcome difficulties and dedicate myself to my career,” said delegate Nang Xo Vi, moved.
During the years of hardship and desire to change their lives, delegate Nang Xo Vi said, I felt the happiness of the children's faces when receiving knowledge, listening to my lectures; saw the hope in their eyes. I want to inspire them to step out of the village gate, go beyond their comfort zone, to know their own capacity", teacher Nang Xo Vi shared.
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A teacher from a favorable area comes to a difficult area, a teacher grows up in the village. But in them all there is love and nurturing to make education in the difficult area better and better. That beauty is the nobility of the teaching profession that helps them overcome many difficulties, sacrifice personal interests to live a meaningful life with the profession they pursue.
Teacher Dang Thi Hue, Moc Ly Secondary School, Moc Chau District, Son La Province is a key teacher at the district level; participating in training sessions, supporting and helping colleagues in professional matters, implementing the contents of the 2018 General Education Program for teachers in the district.
As one of the outstanding teachers honored by the Ministry of Education and Training in 2024, teacher Dang Thi Hue feels very happy and honored. Teacher Hue said: "This is a great source of motivation to help me always try to improve myself further, to cultivate more professional skills to meet the requirements of current educational innovation."
The efforts of each teacher always need support from policies and planning of the Party, State and National Assembly.
According to teacher Dang Thi Hue, teachers' salaries were raised when the salary reform policy was implemented. This helped each teacher to be more committed to the profession and have more confidence in the policies implemented by the Party and the State.
As a teacher in the mountainous area, teacher Dang Thi Hue hopes that innovations in education need to be more thorough and reach every team of teachers in difficult areas.
Teacher Dang Thi Hue said: “Over the years, the education sector has always strived to innovate towards learners. Including innovations in the Curriculum. This is a very good program that helps students develop their abilities and strengths. However, I hope that the education sector needs to have direct training classes instead of online ones in schools so that teachers can access the new Program more intuitively. Especially for teachers who teach integrated subjects such as: Natural Sciences, History and Geography”.
To bring education policies closer to reality, we need the voices of teachers as parliamentarians. As teachers, administrators and National Assembly members, they have been bringing the voices of teachers as voters in a quality way so that when policies are issued, they are closer to reality.
At the 8th Session of the 15th National Assembly, for the first time, the Draft Law on Teachers was submitted to the National Assembly. This is good news for teachers in general and for teachers in disadvantaged areas and ethnic minority areas in particular.
One of the core issues that many National Assembly deputies are concerned about is salary policy for teachers.
Delegate Le Thi Thanh Xuan, National Assembly Delegation of Dak Lak Province, Director of Dak Lak Department of Education and Training, said: “This draft Law has designed a salary regime, allowances and conditions to attract teachers in economically disadvantaged areas, islands and special areas. According to Conclusion 91 of the Politburo, the salary mechanism is proposed. For example, it is proposed to assign a salary level 2 for teachers or prescribe 9 types of allowances, depending on the subject. Accordingly, teachers working in difficult areas have accommodation, are rented houses, supported with health check-ups... which has basically met the issues related to teachers' lives, helping teachers feel secure in their work and dedication”.
Mr. Thai Van Thanh, National Assembly Delegate of Nghe An Province, Director of Nghe An Department of Education and Training said: “Nghe An also faces difficulties in the problem of teacher shortage, teacher transfer within the province as well as between provinces. The Law on Teachers will solve this problem”.
“The Law on Teachers also has a policy to attract excellent students. When the law is enacted, there is a legal basis to advise the Provincial People's Committee to promulgate a policy mechanism to attract talented people to the teaching profession, excellent high school graduates, high-achieving students in exams, and people with special talents who have been trained in teaching are attracted to become teachers. In particular, Nghe An is a locality with a large area, sea, border, islands, ethnic minorities... These difficult areas make it difficult to recruit teachers, and even more difficult to recruit good teachers. The Law on Teachers, when passed, will be the legal corridor for the education sector to attract talented people, who are passionate and love their profession to contribute to these difficult areas,” said National Assembly Delegate Thai Van Thanh.
“If we want teachers to feel secure in their dedication, contribution and passion for their profession, the Party, State and National Assembly must pay attention to teachers. With their enthusiasm, self-respect and efforts, teachers, together with the political system, can make positive contributions to the overall development of the country,” emphasized Delegate Le Thi Thanh Xuan.
Among the achievements that our country has gained over the past 40 years of the renovation period, we cannot fail to take into account the very important contributions of the teaching force and the intellectual class.
The country's education and training are facing great demands and great opportunities. The greater the assigned mission, the higher the requirements and expectations, the more it requires that the country's education, which has been reformed, needs to be reformed more quickly, and the quality, which has been gradually improved, needs to be improved even faster.
According to Minister Nguyen Kim Son, if a country wants to develop rapidly to become a developed country with high income, it needs high-quality human resources, good qualities, good abilities, good physical health, good skills, good foreign languages, especially human resources for key science and technology sectors, new technologies, sectors that bring position and competitive advantages to the country in the international arena. This is a big and difficult requirement for the education sector.
But our national history and the history of education have created miracles that seemed impossible in the past, and we have done them and believe that in the future, education will continue to write even greater miracles. Education around the world is facing challenges due to the explosion of knowledge, challenges of artificial intelligence, robots, the Internet of Things, big data, supercomputers, virtual schools, with new pedagogical methods and tools. The emergence of new factors makes many people question and doubt the existence of school education and the role of teachers in the future.
“We need to face the challenges, not avoid them, not be afraid. We stand firmly on the foundation of educational science and the courage of teachers to receive the advantages of the times, to take advantage of the advantages, to develop faster. Artificial intelligence does not and cannot replace humans, the role of teachers cannot be replaced. With artificial intelligence and new digital means, we need to consider them as new sharp and effective tools. The sharper and more powerful the tools and weapons, the more the users need to have higher thinking capacity, better skills to control and use them. The new education will fail if it only pursues knowledge provision, but it will be a mistake to completely abandon knowledge. Large databases cannot replace small databases, but they actively exist in and within learners and truly belong to learners, transformed by their reception and thinking,” the head of the education sector affirmed.
According to the Minister, we need to equip students with basic knowledge so that they can use it as a tool for thinking, teach them the ability to adapt and self-study to develop themselves, because in front of us is 4.0, then 5.0 and many more in the future. The greater the challenge, the more changes, the more new things are introduced, the more education needs to return to consolidate and equip learners with the most basic and fundamental things. Standing firmly on the most core values of education are the values of love, honesty, kindness and beauty, in addition to the new abilities and skills of the times. That is to bring the unchanging to cope with the ever-changing. That is the philosophy of adaptation and the philosophy of sustainable development of our education.
Therefore, facing new challenges in education, with an increasingly large and new mission for education, teachers in the new era also need to demonstrate their mettle, considering challenges as opportunities for the entire teaching force to develop, for each teacher to become better. The greater the challenge, the more teachers need to return to stand firm, consolidate the core values of teachers to create a new class of intellectuals, a new team of teachers. Values from tradition such as "learning without getting bored, teaching without getting tired", the spirit of tolerance, altruism, sacrifice, deep and broad love for humanity, the spirit of always renewing oneself, overcoming limits to guide learners, the spirit of daily innovation, self-study, self-adaptation to guide students. These are eternal values for teachers to be worthy of being teachers in all eras. Old qualities, new skills, new thinking, adding foreign language tools, digital tools are the things we teachers need to grasp firmly.
“Educational innovation in the next stage is essentially an innovation in depth of the teaching force itself. The limits of teachers are the limits of education, the limits of education are the limits of a country's development. We teachers need to turn limits into unlimited ones,” said Minister Nguyen Kim Son. According to the Minister, never before have the intellectual class, teachers, science and technology activities, innovation, education and training been valued, promoted and placed in the top national policy position by the highest leaders of the Party and State as they are today. Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW of the 11th Party Central Committee affirmed that the teaching staff is the decisive factor in innovation. Conclusion No. 91-KL/TW continues to affirm the viewpoint of prioritizing and focusing on developing the teaching staff. Resolution 45-NQ/TW of the 13th Central Committee on continuing to build and promote the role of the intellectual team to meet the requirements of rapid and sustainable national development in the new period also affirmed that "Building a comprehensively strong intellectual team is an investment in building and fostering "national vitality"; and sustainable development; is the responsibility of the Party, State, political system and society".
With these major policies, the intellectual force, teachers, educational activities and science and technology are placed in the honorable leading position - a position that has never been respected in history. This is a great opportunity for the development of education, a great opportunity for teachers and intellectuals to show their best, to demonstrate their talents, all for the development of the nation. "When a nation rises or falls, the scholars are responsible", when the country has the opportunity to prosper, intellectuals have a very, very great responsibility. Teachers and intellectuals, we definitely need to answer the question: how to respond to the trust, confidence and responsibility of the Party, the State and the people? The repayment of intellectuals has always been and should be in the spirit of the gratitude to the country, one need to respond with a whole river.
Minister Nguyen Kim Son pointed out that in the recent instructions of General Secretary To Lam, the role of teachers as the "locomotive of education" and the most important force determining education has been once again affirmed. The General Secretary expressed special concern for teachers when instructing in the discussion session of the National Assembly on the Law on Teachers that "the promulgation of the Law on Teachers must make teachers excited, cheerful, and receptive..." Teachers must have a place to work, have official housing, be respected and protected... Those are the important guiding thoughts of the General Secretary for the education sector and intellectuals that make teachers feel very excited, feel deeply cared for, see the leader of the Party understand the reality, understand humanity, have the macro strategy of the nation and the vision of the times.
Article: Le Van
Presented by: Nguyen Ha
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