"Expert" in building standard schools
After thirty years of working in a highland school, lowland teacher Nguyen Thi Lan Huong (Principal of Chau Binh 1 Primary School) with her passion has transformed Chau Binh 1 Primary School from a school lacking in all aspects, backward and weak to a national standard school, a key school of the district at the primary level.
(Baonghean) -After thirty years of working in a highland school, lowland teacher Nguyen Thi Lan Huong (Principal of Chau Binh 1 Primary School) with her passion has transformed Chau Binh 1 Primary School from a school lacking in all aspects, backward and weak to a national standard school, a key school of the district at the primary level.
Graduating from Tan Ky Mountainous Pedagogical College in 1985, Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, with her youth and enthusiasm, volunteered to cross forests and streams to reach the forest land of Chau Binh. During 11 years as a teacher in remote villages, teaching at remote schools, she devoted all her heart to imparting knowledge to her students. During this time, with her efforts, she was recognized for many consecutive years as an excellent teacher of the district and province. In 1996, she was appointed as vice principal, and in 1998, she was appointed as Principal of Chau Binh 1 Primary School.
Teacher Nguyen Thi Lan Huong at the "Exchange of excellent primary school education managers" session.
As a manager, she always strives to find ways to improve the quality of education at the school, implementing the roadmap to build a school that meets national standards. Regarding the construction of facilities and classrooms, there are programs and projects, but the school campus must mobilize internal resources. To equip teaching aids and complete the facilities, she mobilized teachers to lend money to the school. She used all the money she saved and the money borrowed from staff and teachers in the school to buy the missing supplies. On the other hand, she introduced a stimulus mechanism to encourage teachers to improve their expertise and skills, devote all their heart to their students, and improve the quality of teaching. After 5 years of perseverance, in the 2003-2004 school year, Chau Binh 1 Primary School was honored to be recognized as a National Standard School Level 1.
Transferred to work at Chau Binh 2 Primary School at the end of the school year, she and the school board here continued to build Chau Binh 2 Primary School to be recognized as meeting standards. In the 2007-2008 school year, she was transferred back to work as Principal of Chau Binh 1 Primary School with the aim of building a national standard school at level 2. Implementing the Campaign "Studying and following the moral example of Ho Chi Minh", at the same time, implementing the "Two No" Campaign of the Ministry of Education and Training, a large number of poor students dropped out of school. She quickly found measures to "stop the flow" of students dropping out of school: calling on teachers to teach extra classes without collecting tuition fees for poor students; launching the "Warm Meal" movement to help students living far away have lunch at school; Teachers sponsor students in difficult circumstances... With the joint efforts of the teachers, the rate of students dropping out of school gradually decreased, and by the 2012-2013 school year, the mobilization rate reached 100%. "You have to be really persistent and patient to be able to stabilize the number of students. But it is still very fragile because just one natural disaster, or sometimes someone in the family gets sick... the results of many years of hard work can suddenly go up in smoke. And then these students can return to work to help their parents, working to earn a living.
Currently, Chau Binh 1 Primary School is on the way to build national standards level 2 with many difficulties: degraded facilities, narrowed school land fund... But with the steadfastness and exemplary role of the principal and the consensus of the teachers, the school will overcome the current difficulties, continue to affirm the brand of the leading primary school of the Quy Chau education sector, reaching the goal of reaching level 2 standards on schedule.
For teacher Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, the title of Excellent Education Manager, Certificate of Merit from the Ministry of Education and Training for achievements in the education career; Certificate of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee as Provincial Emulation Fighter, or "Expert in building standard schools" that friends and colleagues love and admire her for cannot compare to the warm feelings of parents, the maturity of generations of students and the growth of the school. Her innovative experiences such as: "Guiding teachers to teach autonomously for ethnic minority students", "Innovative solutions for management work in primary schools in mountainous areas"... were born from her own passion, originating from the practical requirements of teaching, from love for students and love for the profession. Those initiatives are highly applicable, widely disseminated and applied by teachers in teaching and management in mountainous schools.
Article and photos: Duy Nam
