Teachers need to avoid conservative thinking when implementing the new General Education program.

The workshop received attention from leaders and managers working in education. Photo: My Ha

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thai Huy Vinh - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training introduced the new General Education program. However, in order for the program to be effectively implemented from the next school year (for first graders), implementation is still facing many difficulties.

In particular, the biggest challenge is management (mechanism of assignment and decentralization from central to local levels), capacity of managers and teaching staff, facilities, equipment, budget to serve the innovation of general education programs...

From the 2019-2020 school year, the new General Education program will be implemented in grade 1 and is expected to be implemented synchronously at all levels by 2024. Photo: My Ha

In a constructive spirit, at the workshop, many delegates frankly mentioned the current problems. On that basis, many solutions were also proposed to help the implementation of the new comprehensive general education program effectively and achieve the set goals in the spirit of comprehensive fundamental innovation in education and training.

According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Anh - Chairman of the Provincial Association of Psychology and Education: Currently, the teaching staff of the province still has many problems. Among them, the senior staff who were trained and taught according to the old program still have a conservative mentality, teach heavily on theory, are not proficient in applying information technology to serve teaching and will face obstacles when switching from the current general education program to the new program.

Besides, for a long time, teachers trained under the old curriculum only taught one or two subjects at the junior high and high school levels. Now teaching under the integrated curriculum will face difficulties.