Building a team of teachers to meet the requirements of educational innovation

In the 2024-2025 school year, the education sector will implement the 2018 General Education Program for grades 5, 9, and 12, which are the last grades to fully and synchronously innovate subjects and general education activities, so it is even more necessary to build a team of teachers with sufficient quantity and quality assurance.

According to the Ministry of Education and Training, in order for the teaching staff to meet the needs of innovation, after the Politburo added 65,980 positions for the 2022-2026 period to the education sector, the Ministry of Education and Training coordinated with the Ministry of Home Affairs to guide localities in recruiting, managing and using the assigned positions; in the 2023-2024 school year alone, localities recruited 19,474 teachers.

Notably, the Ministry of Education and Training also issued a circular guiding job positions, staff structure according to professional titles and quotas for the number of people working in public preschools, general education institutions and public specialized schools, with many new points, creating favorable conditions for improving the quality of the teaching staff.

The education sector and localities have implemented regular training for preschool and general education teachers in accordance with regulations. The pedagogical capacity of most teachers has been improved, gradually meeting the requirements of innovation in teaching content and methods, especially in implementing the 2018 General Education Program.

Up to now, the teaching staff has grown in number, gradually overcoming structural shortcomings; by the end of the 2023-2024 school year, the whole country will have 1,251,377 preschool and general education teachers; the rate of preschool teachers meeting the training standards according to the 2019 Education Law is 89.3%, primary school is 89.9%, junior high school is 93.8%, high school is 99.9%.

Despite the positive results, compared to the requirements of educational innovation, there is still a shortage of teachers in most localities, especially teachers of new subjects (English, IT, Music, Fine Arts). The structure of the teaching staff is unbalanced between subjects at the same level, between regions with different socio-economic conditions; the quota for allocating teachers to localities is mostly lower than the actual demand. A small number of teachers are afraid of innovation, not fully aware of the importance of regular training...

To develop a team of teachers that best meets the requirements of innovation, in the 2024-2025 school year, the education sector will continue to implement a roadmap to improve training standards for the teaching staff; focus on implementing regular training, improving teaching capacity to meet professional standards and requirements for implementing the 2018 General Education Program. The Ministry of Education and Training and localities will carry out planning and forecasting of teacher needs to ensure closeness to practical needs, especially good forecasting of planning for urban areas, industrial parks, and export processing zones, linked to the urbanization rate in localities to grasp; forecasting population fluctuations and labor migration between regions to have the best forecasts on the number of students and increasing number of classes, thereby calculating appropriate teacher needs.

Particularly for localities, it is necessary to recruit, manage and effectively use the assigned teacher quota, overcome the shortage of teachers, especially preschool teachers and teachers teaching subjects according to the 2018 General Education Program (recruitment in localities is still slow, currently there are about 72 thousand assigned positions that have not been recruited). Schools actively organize professional group exchange activities within the school and between schools, and at the same time create favorable conditions for teachers to improve their professional qualifications, skills, and innovate teaching methods... in order to develop a sufficient number of teachers and improve their quality, meeting the requirements of educational and training innovation.

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