Nghe An overcomes difficulties to effectively implement the new General Education Program at primary level

On the morning of August 3, the Department of Education and Training held a conference to evaluate 3 years of implementing the 2018 General Education Program at the primary level.

The 2022-2023 school year is the third year that the entire education sector has implemented the new General Education Program with 3 grades 1, 2, 3. Through the implementation, according to the assessment of teachers and schools, the new program has many advantages such as ensuring consistency between goals, content, educational methods and assessment of educational outcomes of the program, ensuring continuity between levels, classes, subjects, ensuring the requirements of simplification, practicality, updating with modern trends of the world, inheriting the advantages of the current program, at the same time, referencing and absorbing experiences selectively, with openness...

In Nghe An, after 3 years of implementation, the first phase of the curriculum and textbook innovation roadmap across the province was carried out as planned, ensuring the requirements and goals set. During the implementation process, despite the shortage of teachers, many districts, cities and towns have made efforts to organize teaching according to the program of 2 sessions/day, 32 periods/week, for all grades, 100% of educational institutions organized English and IT teaching for 3rd grade students. In addition to compulsory subjects, many localities have organized many enhanced contents and extracurricular activities.

Thanks to the implementation of the new program, the construction of teaching plans for new subjects has many innovations. Teachers have focused on designing teaching activities in the direction of organizing experiential activities, learning through play; schools have actively applied information technology, using many software solutions in the management process. The selection of textbooks according to the policy of "one program, many textbooks" is considered completely consistent with the development trend of society. Thereby, creating conditions for schools and students to have many choices to find quality books that are suitable for the economic, cultural and social conditions of each locality.

At the conference, in addition to evaluating the results achieved, delegates also analyzed the shortcomings and limitations, such as the shortage of cultural teachers. Or the new program added a number of new subjects, changing the demand for the structure of the teaching staff, making it difficult to arrange teachers in schools. During the implementation process, the need for investment in building facilities, purchasing teaching equipment, especially the minimum equipment to meet the implementation requirements is very large, but the investment budget is limited, not enough to supply or the supply is slow and not synchronous.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Dao Cong Loi - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training said that the implementation of the new General Education Program took place in a context of many difficulties. However, with close guidance, efforts of the whole industry and efforts of teachers, the implementation of the new General Education Program in Nghe An has achieved many positive results.

In the coming years, the education sector also identified that difficulties in facilities and teaching staff will continue to affect the implementation process. Therefore, for effective implementation, in addition to objective difficulties, schools and teachers need to be flexible, develop teaching plans suitable to actual circumstances, and enhance inter-school professional activities. In addition, it is necessary to strengthen digital transformation and continue to do a good job of communication to receive the consensus and support of parents and students.

The Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training also suggested that localities need to develop teaching plans for schools to ensure quality. During the implementation process, teachers should be given the initiative in organizing teaching and learning, and students' results and progress should be the final assessment measure.

The industry will advise and actively recruit teachers to ensure enough 2 periods/week, mobilize all resources to invest in purchasing teaching equipment, prioritize purchasing computers for learning IT, and foreign language classrooms./.