Yen Thanh District Education Department effectively deploys online meeting system

Solutions to improve management efficiency and education quality
With just a TV screen connected to technological equipment, right in the school's meeting room, teachers and staff of Ho Tong Thoc Secondary School (Tho Thanh Commune), along with secondary schools across the district, participated in the online conference organized by the District Education Department on May 2, 2019; listened to representatives of the Education Department disseminate policies, professional content, summer activity plans, etc.

Yen Thanh education sector deploys online meeting system to contribute to improving management efficiency and quality of professional activities. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

The online meeting system has bridged the gap between management levels and schools. Mr. Nguyen Duc Trung - Principal of Ho Tong Thoc Secondary School said: “We no longer have to travel dozens of kilometers to town to attend monthly meetings and specialized training sessions of the industry. Through online connections, policies, guidelines, and professional content from the district Department of Education are disseminated more fully and widely to all cadres, teachers, and staff of the schools; thereby, positively affecting the ideology, operational efficiency, and discipline of the unit.

On the other hand, through online conferences and trainings, the whole industry has direct dialogue. Accordingly, the difficulties, aspirations and wishes of teachers and staff are listened to and resolved by management…”.

The application of the online meeting system not only contributes to improving the efficiency of management and operation but also improves the quality of professional activities. Since the beginning of 2018, every month, all teachers of 6 schools in the cluster with Ly Thanh Primary School have organized professional activities in the direction of studying lessons, innovating teaching methods, participating in Olympic competitions... through the online connected system, right at their school.
“Thanks to online equipment, teachers have the opportunity to participate in class observation and professional exchange with colleagues from other schools; thereby, the quality of teaching and learning at the school is increasingly improved. In addition, the schools in our mountainous cluster are 6-7 km apart, no longer having to struggle to gather at one school to participate in monthly seminars and professional activities; helping to save time and costs significantly” - Ms. Nguyen Thi Hue - Principal of Ly Thanh Primary School shared.

Applying online meeting system in professional activities, innovating teaching methods at Ly Thanh Primary School. Photo: PV

The implementation of the online meeting system is considered a practical solution to improve management efficiency. According to Mr. Tran Xuan Tinh - Head of the Department of Education and Training of Yen Thanh district, the industry has deployed the online meeting system since the beginning of 2018. Up to now, this online system has been effective in management, saving costs, time, limiting travel for teachers; at the same time improving the quality of local education.

In fact, professional activities of the industry such as: Conferences between the Department of Education and schools held every month, with the schools as the focal points, have now been organized online; The 2019 industry-wide political class was organized with 2 online classes instead of 19 classes as in 2018.

As for the specialized activities of the industry, previously, only school leaders and specialized teachers participated, but now all teachers and staff of the industry participate. With the use of the online system, schools become the bridge to organize Olympic competitions, exchange activities, etc.

Mr. Hoang Danh Truyen - Vice Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee affirmed: "Implementing the Government's administrative reform policy, the District People's Committee has approved the policy and supported the Education sector to install equipment to deploy online meeting rooms to deploy policies and professional skills of the sector to a large number of teachers in a timely manner, to better perform the task of educational management. After the Education sector successfully applies it, it is expected that in 2019, the district will deploy online meeting rooms from the district to the People's Committees of communes and towns in the whole district".

Yen Thanh District Education Department held an online conference for secondary school officials, teachers and staff on May 2, 2019. Photo: Dinh Nguyet

Up to now, the online system has been deployed at the district Education Department and 100% of primary and secondary schools in the area have been operating stably; effectively serving the management and professional activities of the industry./.