From surprise to excitement
The 2024-2025 school year marks an important milestone when the GDPT program will complete the cycle with the final grades of all levels of education, including grades 5, 9 and 12. This is the decisive stage to comprehensively assess the innovation process, creating a premise for a modern education system with comprehensive development.
When the GDPT program was officially implemented, many teachers expressed confusion at the major changes in content, teaching methods as well as testing and evaluation methods.
Ms. Le Thi Uyen, a teacher at Nguyen Thien Thuat High School (Hung Yen), shared that at the beginning of applying the 2018 General Education Program, many teachers had difficulty getting used to the new methods and approaches. The program requires teachers to be flexible, change teaching habits, encourage students to self-study and be creative.
According to Ms. Uyen, the new method focuses on developing capacity, enhancing interaction, and encouraging students to proactively explore knowledge. To adapt, she has adjusted the way she designs lectures, promoted group activities and applied technology in teaching.
Up to now, thanks to proactive adaptation and efforts in innovation, the teaching staff has changed from fear to enjoyment. And the GDPT program has gradually entered practice with clear results.
Up to now, I have noticed that students have a better critical thinking, their teamwork and problem-solving skills have also improved. In particular, testing and evaluating in the direction of capacity development helps students avoid learning by machine. Teachers not only impart knowledge but also accompany and support students in the process of self-study and soft skills training, Ms. Uyen shared.
The 2024 - 2025 school year is the first school year that the high school graduation exam is organized according to the new plan, meeting the requirements of innovation. The exam is designed in the direction of opening up, reducing the burden of knowledge, enhancing critical thinking and solving problems of students.
With innovations in exam form and learning program, Ms. Dang Thi Lan Anh - teacher at Wellspring Inter-level School for the Gifted (Hanoi) advised senior students to have a firm grasp of exam structure to have a reasonable review strategy, practice skills for each exam form, flexibly apply to reality and use official documents such as textbooks and illustrative questions from the Ministry of Education and Training. At the same time, it is necessary to arrange the time for a scientific review to ensure health in the important exam.
According to teachers, this is a key school year, creating momentum for educational innovation, so the whole industry is focusing on and expecting a strong transformation.
Taking learners as the center
The education sector has determined that in the 2024 - 2025 school year, it will continue to implement Resolution 29 with many major solutions and tasks. In particular, innovating exams, moving towards reducing pressure, and accurately assessing students' qualifications is a breakthrough.
Many experts have emphasized that the teaching viewpoint of "taking learners as the center" will be a direction, a teaching style suitable to the requirements of the new era - education to create autonomous, creative people, becoming global citizens.
Sharing about this issue, education expert Vu Thu Huong said that the 2018 general education program was built with great expectations, aiming for long-term goals, contributing to improving the quality of education in the context of comprehensive innovation.
According to Ms. Huong, in order for parents, students, teachers and the whole society to clearly understand the core values of the new general education program, there needs to be more full and methodical consultation, training and propaganda activities. The implementation of the program needs to be implemented consistently from the management level to each school, ensuring consensus and consistency in approach.
Dr. Vu Thu Huong said that in the context of education being expected to become a driving force for socio-economic development, close connection between education and practice is an urgent requirement. Students not only learn knowledge from books but also need to practice skills and accumulate experience through real-life environments. Education needs to go beyond the framework of textbooks, linked to life through experiential activities, discovery and contributions to the community.
