The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has completed and sent to the Ministry of Justice for appraisal the draft Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Teachers.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, the assessment and classification of teacher quality is being implemented according to general regulations for civil servants in Section 6, Chapter III of the Law on Public Employees and Decree No. 90/2020/ND-CP. At the same time, preschool and general education teachers are also evaluated according to professional standards prescribed by the Minister of Education and Training.
These regulations are revealing some problems such as teachers under duplication of assessment pressure: Teachers are having to simultaneously implement two assessment processes (both according to professional standards and according to civil servant classification), causing overload of administrative records but the actual management effectiveness is low.
The current assessment regulations are still "harmonious and precious", not reflecting professional competence correctly, difficult to distinguish the boundaries between levels of task completion and not taking professional standards as the core measure.
In addition, the results of professional standard assessment have not been used as a direct basis for salary ranking or promotion; teachers, even if they are assessed as having achieved the level, are not demoted to lower positions, eliminating motivation to strive.
Currently, there are also no regulations on professional standards for university and pedagogical college lecturers and principal standards for these blocks.
Faced with the above-mentioned inadequacies, the Ministry of Education and Training has issued a number of orientations stipulated in the draft Decree.
In Article 31 of Chapter IV, deeply absorbing the comments of ministries and localities on reducing the burden of procedures, the Ministry of Education and Training drafted the orientation: Unify the assessment of the level of professional and nghiep vu capacity according to professional standards as a basis for ranking the quality of civil servants annually.
Standard assessment results are the direct basis for implementing appointment, career advancement and training and fostering.
At the same time, it will promote the digitization of the evaluation process to ensure transparency, objectivity, and reduce manual paperwork according to the recommendations of many educational institutions.
Draft Decree detailing a number of articles of the Law on Teachers, Article 31: Evaluating teachers according to professional standards
1. Teachers in educational institutions are assessed for the level of task completion according to professional standards, meeting the professional and nghiep vu capacity of the ranked title. The tasks and standards of professional and nghiep vu capacity of teachers according to the title of teacher are implemented according to the regulations of the Minister of Education and Training.
2. The evaluation results of the level of task completion as stated in Clause 1 of this Article are carried out by educational institutions and are used to evaluate teachers according to the provisions of Clause 1, Article 22 of the Law on Teachers.
3. The time, order, procedures for evaluating, classifying and using the results of evaluating and classifying teachers in public educational institutions shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of the law on civil servants and related laws; for teachers in non-public educational institutions, it shall be implemented according to the Regulations on evaluating and classifying teachers promulgated by educational institutions.
