Innovation, improving training quality, overcoming the disease of 'laziness in studying politics'

(Baonghean) - With the function of being a training center, fostering political theory and state management qualifications for the province's cadres, the Provincial Political School has synchronously deployed solutions, gradually innovating the school's activities to improve training quality.

Innovating teaching methods towards enhancing exchanges between lecturers and students at Nghe An Provincial Political School. Photo: Le Thanh

In recent times, the Provincial Political School has focused on innovating teaching methods based on the curriculum and innovation orientation of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics. Accordingly, the school requires lecturers to always innovate their teaching methods and skills, improve their theoretical knowledge and summarize practical experience, especially their ability to relate and apply, helping learners grasp the essence of the content of the problem while answering and clarifying the practical issues that arise, forming the right approach.

In addition to many activities that have been carried out, in recent years, the school has had many practical and useful scientific activities. Every year, 5-7 school-level scientific topics and projects are implemented; dozens of initiatives and solutions to innovate methods, improve techniques to improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning, consulting and service work.

In particular, the school has successfully registered and implemented research on many provincial-level scientific topics and projects, including some that have been evaluated as excellent; organized professional activities and school-level scientific seminars that were very practical and useful. In 2017, the school was assigned by the Provincial Party Committee to preside over and coordinate with the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department and related units to advise on organizing a provincial-level scientific conference on the 100th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution and an international scientific conference on the 150th anniversary of the birth of patriot Phan Boi Chau.

The Political School invited provincial leaders to directly teach topics for senior political classes. Photo: Le Thanh

To meet the requirements of opening training classes and fostering staff, the school regularly strengthens the implementation of measures to improve the quality of teaching and learning. From developing a scientific and reasonable teaching plan, arranging the teaching staff to implement according to the plan. Unifying the implementation of the TCLLCT - HC curriculum content, promptly directing the addition and updating of new TCLLCT-HC curriculum content in the teaching plan.

Regularly apply positive and modern teaching and learning methods. Conduct surprise inspections in the management of students in TCLLCT-HC classes and teaching activities of lecturers; conduct lecturer evaluations. In the first 6 months of 2017, the school coordinated and directly trained and fostered 52 classes with 3,653 students; collected feedback from students on the teaching quality of 18 lecturers through visiting and observing classes in 7 classes.

Comrade Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa speaks at a scientific conference. Photo: Archive

The new feature of the school in recent years is to increase the invitation of experts, scientists, comrades in the Standing Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of the Party Building Committees, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee to participate in teaching, and the team of reporters from the province and the Central Government to report on specific topics. In the first months of 2017, the school invited comrades of the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to directly teach topics for senior political classes.

Preside over and coordinate with the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department to invite Central reporters to organize research and study of 4 topics: "Theory and practice of power and power degeneration; Preventing degradation in political ideology, lifestyle ethics, self-evolution, self-transformation in the contingent of cadres and party members"; "Studying and following the ideology, ethics, and lifestyle of Ho Chi Minh; Promoting cultural values ​​and lifestyle of Nghe An people" for the contingent of cadres, school lecturers, Provincial Party Committee reporters, propaganda department officials of party committees directly under the Provincial Party Committee, districts, cities, and town party committees; and political training centers.

In addition, the Party Committee and the Board of Directors pay attention to leading and directing the building of a cultural environment for pedagogy, discipline, administrative discipline, public ethics; awareness and style of teachers. In recent years, the school has seriously and effectively maintained the flag-raising ceremony in the first week of the month, combined with evaluating the results of the monthly plan implementation and deploying the tasks of the following month. Thereby, providing information to thoroughly grasp new policies and guidelines for civil servants; public discipline, working style, speech of cadres and lecturers, implementation of office culture, meeting regime are continued to be rectified, increasingly becoming routine, contributing to building a standard and civilized pedagogical space.

Along with that is the implementation of tightening classroom discipline, strengthening learner management to ensure quality, avoiding the situation of "real diplomas, fake students", and learners copying, being passive, lacking creativity. Especially associated with the implementation of Central Resolution 4 (term XII) to overcome the "disease" of being lazy to study political theory. For students, the motivation to study must be determined from the beginning, the school thoroughly disseminates the message right when opening classes to raise awareness, self-awareness in studying and practicing. The school innovates in making exam questions and evaluating students' results.

Accordingly, the exam will be conducted in an "open" way to connect theory with practice, avoiding copying documents. Tighten the assessment of students throughout the learning process, not based on scores. Send students' learning results to agencies, localities, and units to enhance coordination between schools and local agencies and units sending staff to study.

Intermediate Political Theory class at the Provincial Political School. Photo: Le Thanh

Comrade Nguyen Thi Hong Hoa - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Party Secretary, Principal of the Provincial Political School shared: The school's way of doing things is to have a clear division of responsibilities among the comrades in the Board of Directors and responsible members in departments and faculties to create initiative in solving work.

Accordingly, the departments and divisions have been proactive in managing the work within their functions and tasks, always closely following the teaching plan and professional activities, scientific research activities, practical research, and summarizing practices. Democratic discussion policies create high consensus among the board of directors, staff, and lecturers. During the implementation process, there is close inspection and supervision by the school's Board of Directors.

The school's goal is to build Nghe An Provincial Political School into a national standard school within the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics system. To achieve that goal, in addition to the management and operation of the school's Board of Directors, the innovation efforts of the staff and lecturers, the school needs to continue to receive attention and investment in completing and modernizing facilities and teaching and learning equipment to meet the criteria of the National Standard Political School and the requirements of the task of training and fostering political theory for the current and future staff.

Le Thanh