Urgent need to develop separate professional standards for continuing education teachers

Many difficulties due to lack of specific standards

Mr. Dang Ngoc Thang - Director of the Doan Hung Continuing Education Center (Phu Tho) said: Currently, continuing education teachers do not have their own professional standards but are evaluated based on the professional standards of general education teachers.

The lack of specific standards leads to difficulties in evaluating, training and developing the team. The reason is that teachers of continuing education have their own characteristics such as learners, tasks, etc.

“Building separate professional standards for teachers in continuing education institutions affirms the position of continuing education, creates a unified legal framework to evaluate and improve the quality of the team, and meets the requirements of developing open education and lifelong learning,” said Mr. Dang Ngoc Thang.

Also stating the current situation, Mr. Tran Quang Tu, Director of Ba Tri Vocational Education and Continuing Education Center ( Vinh Long province) said that currently there is no separate system of regulations on professional standards for continuing education teachers.

For many years, continuing education has mainly relied on general documents of general education as a basis for assigning tasks, calculating part-time regimes for teachers, and evaluating teachers.

Affirming that this affects the standardization of the team, Mr. Tran Quang Tu pointed out the following shortcomings:

Continuing education has a diverse teaching target: adult students, work-study, transfer study, cultural supplementary education, vocational - cultural training; study time must be flexible, the program, many different forms of teaching. Teachers also play a very important role in "advising - supporting - guiding" students but this has not been included in the specific standard requirements.

Difficulties in planning, training and developing staff, because the criteria of general education do not reflect the real needs of continuing education. Difficulties in recruiting and retaining teachers, when the professional standards of general education do not encourage or properly recognize the specific abilities of continuing education teachers.

Urgent request

In the context of educational innovation, especially when continuing education is identified as one of the pillars of the national education system, Mr. Tran Quang Tu affirmed that the issuance of a Circular regulating professional standards for teachers of continuing education institutions is very important.

Firstly: To serve as a basis for developing a professional and practical training program for continuing education teachers, creating a legal basis for teacher evaluation in accordance with the characteristics of continuing education.

Second: Orientation for career capacity development, focusing on career counseling skills, flexible classroom management, supporting learners to self-study - lifelong learning; promoting digital transformation in continuing education, improving the capacity to use information technology for online teaching.

Third: Create fairness between high school teachers and continuing education teachers, affirming that continuing education has its own role, expertise, and tasks; increase the attractiveness of the continuing education sector, and motivate teachers to strive and stick with it for the long term.

Fourth: Contribute to perfecting the legal framework of the regular, flexible, lifelong learning education system; affirm the policy of "standardization - modernization - integration" for the teaching staff; create national unity in the management and development of regular education human resources.

Commenting on this issue, Mr. Le Van Hoa, Director of the Center for Continuing Education - Information Technology, Foreign Languages of Quang Tri province, said: In continuing education facilities, the professional tasks of teachers of culture and vocational training are relatively independent of each other.

Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Training should issue separate standards for general education teachers and vocational teachers. In particular, the professional standards for vocational teachers must focus on the actual professional capacity of teachers, the current and future vocational training needs of society to thoroughly overcome the long-standing waste of human resources.

Regarding the issue of teacher evaluation, at the end of the school year, although very busy, general teachers have to conduct two evaluations. That is the evaluation of civil servants and the evaluation of teachers according to professional standards. The content and process of evaluation are not much different, but it is time-consuming, duplicates the content and wastes unnecessary paperwork.

Implementing the general policy on administrative reform, Mr. Le Van Hoa proposed integrating civil servant evaluation into professional standards to facilitate teachers and the management of educational institutions, while also achieving depth and substance in teacher evaluation.

Many difficulties due to lack of specific standards

Urgent request

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