The role of school unions in improving teaching quality

Care for and look after the teaching staff

With the characteristics of 100% of students being children of ethnic minorities in the Western region of the province, far from their families, and low input quality, the Provincial Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities has always achieved impressive results. In the 2021-2022 school year, 100% of the school's students passed the high school graduation exam with the result ranked 4th in the province, being one of the 5 key high-quality schools with students taking the Enhanced Informatics Certificate exam reaching 98%.

Sharing with us, teacher Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan - President of the Provincial Boarding Ethnic High School Union confided: “The quality of education is largely determined by the teachers. Having good teachers will have good students. For our school, teachers who are good at their subjects are not enough. They also have to replace parents and relatives in managing, caring for, helping, and supporting the students from small, secret things to career orientation for them. This task is not easy. It requires teachers to stick to the school and class, truly love and be dedicated to it. Understanding and sharing with its members, the Union has done a good job of motivating, encouraging, building a democratic and united working environment, creating a comfortable mindset, loving the school and class. The Executive Committee of the Union determined that the Union must be a bridge, a reliable support for workers, creating motivation for cadres, teachers, and workers to feel secure, excited, and complete their professional tasks well.”

Nghe An Province Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities. Photo: CSCC

Grasping the characteristics of the situation and tasks of the unit, the School Union has built a suitable program of activities, with meaningful activities that are highly appreciated by union members, workers and students in the school. Specifically, the School Union has cared about the lives of union members and workers with practical and touching activities.

Among the 79 staff, teachers and workers in the unit, there are 5 teachers with serious illnesses, 4 staff families are in difficult circumstances. The school union not only visits and encourages but also cares and shares in all aspects from work to family. FamilyteachersCancer patients who have undergone radiation therapy and surgery many times, in addition to visiting according to regulations, the school's Union also sends union members to take turns on duty at the hospital, union members with the same expertise in the group are willing to share teaching duties so that colleagues can rest assured during treatment.

In addition, from the sightseeing fund voluntarily contributed by union members with the amount of 400 million VND/year, the Union Executive Committee has created conditions for union members' families in difficult circumstances to borrow interest-free loans to build their family's economic life, creating motivation for them to strive to complete their professional tasks well.

Joining hands for educational goals

The Union has also directly organized many activities that contribute to improving the quality of comprehensive education, such as hosting the competition: "Designing electronic lectures"; organizing good teaching demonstrations, observing lessons to learn from each other's experiences on the occasion of major holidays; organizing groups for teachers to study to improve their qualifications; coordinating with the teacher union to tutor weak and poor students; organizing the program "Green Innovation", "Stem Festival for students"... From these activities, many technological products have been born and are very useful in life.

Thanks to the attention of the Trade Union, the Provincial Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities has achieved many achievements in professional activities, with many creative products from teachers and students. Photo: CSCC

In addition, the school's Union also participates in building a green, beautiful, and exemplary environmental landscape, mobilizing union members and workers to actively participate in building an environmental space with many meaningful items, such as many flower beds, ornamental plants, many highly aesthetic landscape corners, a spacious and clean communal kitchen. In particular, the school's Union presides over and coordinates with professional departments to build an open library. This is a friendly and intimate space for teachers and students to read books and relax, an ideal place to check-in... This model has been implemented by many visiting groups to learn from experience.

Teacher Nguyen Kieu Hoa - Principal of the school shared: "The school's Union is always proactive and pioneering not only in union activities and the movement of workers, civil servants and laborers, but also actively, proactively, accompanies and coordinates with the school in professional work. For students, the School's Union also has many support programs that contribute to changing their lives and future."

The well-invested open library is a favorite destination for many students in the school. Photo: CSCC

The School Union Executive Committee has built and maintained a “Charity Cabinet” with the motto: “Whoever has, give - Whoever lacks, receive”. The charity cabinet has been operating for the past 3 years, not only calling for contributions from staff, teachers, and workers in the school, but also calling on many organizations, individuals, and philanthropists to join hands in contributing. Clothes, books, notebooks, household items, etc. from the “Charity Cabinet” have helped many children in difficult and deprived circumstances to be shared and supported.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the School Union called on benefactors to support and donated more than 103 million VND to support students in their daily life and meals during treatment and quarantine due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In particular, many students took the university entrance exam with very high scores, but their family circumstances were too difficult, their parents worked on farms in mountainous, remote areas and could not continue their university studies. In addition to visiting and giving gifts to students and their families, the School Union also organized charity trips to the villages and hamlets where they lived to learn and encourage them. Worried and concerned about the dream of university for poor students,School unionhas called for the “Lighting up the Dream” fund. From this program, many students have received financial support, or timely rewards and encouragement. Most recently, the school has 6 poor students who passed the university entrance exam with high scores and received tuition support for 4 years of university. Among them, Vu Ba Cho was also taken care of, raised by a benefactor and committed to creating conditions until he graduated from university and found a job.

Charity Cabinet with the motto "Those who have, give - Those who lack, receive" of the Construction School Union. Photo: CSCC

Teacher Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan - President of the School Union said: "The School Union will continue to seek and connect with philanthropists and donors to support poor ethnic students. This is a sustainable support activity, contributing to changing the future and lives of ethnic students in difficult circumstances, motivating students to strive to achieve high academic achievements."

The practical and meaningful activities that the Trade Union of the Provincial Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities has done in recent years have contributed significantly to making the Boarding High School for Ethnic Minorities continuously lead the province in terms of teaching and learning quality. The Trade Union has promoted the role and responsibility of the organization, connecting and building a collective of cadres, teachers,workersSolidarity, love, dedication and responsibility. The school union has truly become a warm home, a solid support for union members and workers.