Thai Van Tai, Director of the Primary Education Department of MOET

The Ministry of Education and Training has released a document guiding the implementation of tasks for primary education which sets requirements. The teaching has to be designed in a way to suit primary school students and not put pressure on them. The document also mentioned the requirement on building reasonable timetables and training for teachers.

For first graders, there must not be more than seven teaching periods a day and one period must not last more than 35 minutes.

Schools want to know how teachers will be trained for online teaching, who will compile the training program and what the requirements of the program are.

Thai Van Tai, Director of the Primary Education Department of MOET said that after schools assess their facilities, transmission lines, parents’ opinions and choose software for online teaching, they will join forces with software suppliers to train teachers on this software. Teachers will show parents how to use the software and parents will give instructions to their children.

In many cases, schools have not done well in training teachers in using specialized software. As parents and students are not proficient in using software, many problems have arisen during the teaching process.

Educators have different opinions about online teaching to first graders. Some believe that first graders cannot concentrate well enough. In in-person classes, teachers can meet students face to face and remind them of work. In online classes, teachers don't know what students are doing

However, Tai said that it is suitable if schools implement it methodically, follow the regulations and meet the requirements.

He said in normal conditions, one of the tasks of the educational sector is using more information technology (IT) during teaching and learning.

Schools need to be ready for all possible scenarios since the end of the pandemic is unknown.

“When we change the form of teaching organization, we need to be ready and change methods to bring online teaching into play,” he said.

MOET is joining forces with localities and Vietnam National Television (VTV) to create lesson plans that can be commonly used for all sets of textbooks.

As for first grade, 56 sections for Vietnamese language teaching have been completed. 

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