Lo ‘as tangled as chives’ with more than 100 new 10th grade curriculum subject combinations

7 subjects and activities education Compulsory contents include: Literature, Mathematics, Foreign Language 1, Physical Education, National Defense and Security Education, Experience activities, career guidance, Local educational content.

5 elective subjects are selected from 3 groups of subjects (each group has at least 1 subject, which is the group of Social Sciences (History, Geography, Economic and Legal Education); the group of Natural Sciences Courses (Physics, Chemistry, Biology); Technology and Arts (Technology, Informatics, Arts).

The new General Education program will apply to high schools from the school year 2022-2023

Thus, for teachers who teach compulsory subjects such as: Literature, Mathematics, Foreign Language 1, Physical Education, National Defense and Security Education, Experiential-career activities, Educational content of Locals won’t have to worry much.

The current issue is how to prepare teachers for new subjects such as: experiential-career activities, local educational content, etc. in schools and localities, and how to handle them. redundant teachers if the subject is not chosen by many students.

Managers take care of the team

Sharing with VietNamNet, Mr. Huynh Thanh Phu, Principal of Nguyen Du High School in Ho Chi Minh City, said that when students choose themselves, it means that there are subjects they like, they can choose a lot and those they don’t like are not. select. Thus, for the subjects they do not like, the existing teacher force will be redundant. The subjects they like are lacking teachers and must be recruited. While the school is not allowed to actively recruit teachers, although the Government’s Decree 115/2020 assigns recruitment rights to the units, so far the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training still “embraces” the recruitment and work. for the school not to take the initiative in human resource work, especially in selecting talented people.

Second, countries around the world highly appreciate History and Geography, while in ours, History and Geography are included in electives.

Third, say that allowing students to choose, but letting students choose more than 100 combinations is extremely “messy” for school units, so it is impossible to make cages first and then force students to go. into the. On the other hand, the content of the textbook program is said to be lean but very heavy. During the 2 weeks of study and research, teachers all reflect the academic program, which is heavy and difficult to teach, especially the textbooks are still compiled in the form of essays. while the current assessment method is multiple choice.

According to Mr. Phu, when applying the general education program at the high school level, there are subjects such as: Experience-oriented activities, local educational content. These are new subjects, there are no teachers at the school, so it will be very difficult. Moreover, there are no faculty in teacher training schools for new subjects in pedagogical schools.

“This school year, schools have not yet recruited teachers for these subjects. In fact, schools should have teachers in these subjects first to establish themselves as leaders. For subjects like Art, the price of a teacher contract will be very high. The reason is that people who do art don’t want to go to high school to teach,” said Mr. Phu.

According to Mr. Phu, in 2022, the new general education program will be applied for high school. The textbooks should have been released 2-3 years in advance for the schools to research, but only recently have the books been released.

The leader of a Department of Education and Training in the South was quite confused when asked if there was any solution to teachers for new subjects and redundant teachers because subjects were not selected.

“The content of local education at the primary level will be taught by the homeroom teacher, but at the high school level, it is not clear how to teach it. We are looking forward to the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training. We also don’t have any plans for redundant teachers if that subject is not chosen by students,” he said.

Teachers worry about the program

Mr. Nguyen Viet Dang Du, History teacher, Le Quy Don High School, said that according to the regulations, each group of Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Technology and Arts students still had to choose at least one subject. so they still have to choose 1 social science subject. In the trend of integrated teaching, this is no longer a concern for teachers. When lessons integrate History and Geography, every teacher has a job to do.

Mr. Du said that at Le Quy Don High School, teaching has long been organized according to integrated topics. The innovation of methods, project teaching, so social subjects are very confident that will bring excitement to students and students will choose subjects that bring them interest.

As for Mr. Pham Dong Phuong, who teaches Physics, Nam Ky Khoi Nghia High School, information has now participated in the training program for general school teachers and general education institution managers in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training. Organized by the World Bank.

“I don’t worry because students who want to specialize in Natural Science have to study specialized subjects like Physics, Chemistry…” said Mr. Phuong. However, according to Mr. Phuong, the most worrying thing today is that there is an idea that natural science teachers can teach subjects at the same time as primary school teachers and it is unclear if this is true or not.

“I am a Physics teacher and I cannot teach Biology or Chemistry. Conversely, a Biology or Chemistry teacher cannot teach Physics well. I disagree if the difficulty in interdisciplinary teaching is the method, not the content. The content conveyed to the students is most important. Teachers can teach the wrong method but cannot teach the wrong content. Moreover, each teacher learns a major at university level to teach that subject, “- Mr. Phuong made a point.

Minh Anh