Ministry of Education and Training guides teaching 2 sessions/day for general education

The Ministry of Education and Training said it has developed and issued Official Dispatch No. 4567/BGDĐT-GDPT guiding the organization of teaching 2 sessions/day for general education in the 2025-2026 school year.

According to the guidelines, the Ministry of Education and Training requires that teaching 2 sessions/day must ensure the goal of effectively implementing the goals of the General Education Program, ensuring the duration of teaching subjects and organizing educational activities; not causing overload, suitable for students' psychology and health; ensuring the rights, meeting the needs and aspirations of students, suitable for the actual conditions of the school and locality; effectively implementing the policy of socializing education to ensure the principles of voluntariness, publicity, transparency, no coercion, in accordance with the provisions of law; effectively using facilities, teaching equipment and teaching staff, promoting the proactive and creative role of professional groups.

Teaching 2 sessions/day is clearly divided between session 1 and session 2 to ensure scientific , flexible and comprehensive development of students.

In which, session 1 is the time to implement the official General Education Program, including compulsory subjects and educational activities (for general education levels), elective subjects, selected subjects, advanced topics (for high school level) according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. This is compulsory teaching content to ensure the requirements of the General Education Program.

Session 2 is the time to organize supplementary educational activities, develop capacity, nurture excellent students, tutor students who have not met the requirements of the General Education Program, life skills education, financial education, art education, physical education, STEM/STEAM, career guidance, artificial intelligence, foreign languages... in the direction of comprehensive development suitable for students' psychology at each level of education.

The organization of sessions 1 and 2 can be flexible in terms of time, balanced in terms of duration (not fixed in the morning as session 1 and afternoon as session 2), suitable to the conditions of each school. Encourage educational institutions to diversify teaching methods and organize educational activities to improve the quality of comprehensive education for students.

The Departments of Education and Training guide general education institutions in the area to develop a plan to organize 2 sessions/day of teaching in accordance with the practical situation, ensuring a clear implementation roadmap, clearly mobilized resources; clear teaching content and methods, clear responsibilities of the subjects, clear results and quality of education; closely coordinate with local authorities and social forces in the area during the implementation process to achieve the highest efficiency. The arrangement of teachers and facilities must be based on practical conditions and local conditions, ensuring that it does not overload students, teachers and parents.

General education institutions are responsible for surveying students' learning needs in the second session before the start of the new school year to have a plan to organize educational content that meets students' learning needs and is suitable for the school's conditions; publicize the plan, content, and timetable for teaching 2 sessions/day to students, parents and on the school's information page; organize communication so that students, parents and social forces understand and agree...

Guidelines for organizing 2-session teaching/day issued by the Ministry of Education and Training for general education in the 2025-2026 school year, please see details here.

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