Teachers need to grasp the "wave" of educational innovation so as not to become outdated

Translator Nguyen Quoc Vuong believes that to improve the quality of education, teachers' material and spiritual lives must be paid attention to.

As someone who researches some aspects of education, I am very interested in the issues facing the industry. first, confusion, lack of uniformity, and lack of a clear philosophy in education, especially the issue of integrated teaching and assessment measures, including the national high school graduation exam.

Monday, school safety issues when many serious school violence incidents occur. Among them, some victims are students whose mental and physical health has been seriously damaged. What is worrying is that school violence is at risk of escalating, continuing continuously and showing no signs of cooling down. One incident after another, including incidents like the one in Tuyen Quang, far exceeded people's imagination.

Tuesday, the problem of teachers violating the law and professional ethics. Cases of stealing boarding students' meals and illegally misappropriating and collecting parent funds (overcollection) occurred in many localities, making parents angry and worried. This is a serious problem because it goes beyond normal, minimal ethical limits.

Wednesday, there are still many problems with teachers' lives and school culture. The phenomenon of many teachers quitting their jobs is worth thinking about. Teachers quit their jobs not only because of low salaries, but because the working environment is also being affected by many negative factors, a lot of pressure, having to shoulder many tasks outside of their expertise, and confusion when implementing education reform. sex…

In my opinion, it is difficult to expect strong changes in the Education sector in just a short time with the current situation. However, I still hope that with the inherent dynamism, educational units and direct educators will make improvements consistent with practice.

From there, create small but sustainable changes that are consistent with the long-term strategic direction. That is, promoting education in the direction of liberality, democracy, respecting learners and real situations, ensuring real learning, real testing, and real work. For example, recently in Hanoi, some schools introduced reading time at the beginning of the lesson and students participated very enthusiastically. I think that is one of the positive signs.

Teacher quality is the number one important issue in education. Any reform stops at just slogans if there are no good teachers. Education reform in Vietnam is always difficult not only because of problems in the most important issues such as educational philosophy, but even when there is the right direction in a few narrow areas, implementation still faces difficulties because of lack of Get someone to do it.

To have a true teacher, everything from the curriculum, textbooks, educational methods, testing and assessment... must be given maximum respect and encourage teachers to innovate and be creative. However, reality requires teachers to be self-enlightened, self-learn, take advantage of every opportunity to change themselves, capture the "wave" of educational innovation, and create their own educational practices. me.

I think, if we want truly quality education, everything needs to... slow down. The Education sector needs to focus on basic things, easy to find consensus from teachers and people, and not too complicated when calculating in terms of state management.

One is, Encourage teachers to develop and implement their own educational content to create true educational practices. The easiest practices to implement will be local education, experiential activities followed by other close-to-life subjects such as history, geography, science...

Secondly, strives to improve school culture, especially physical education, art education and reading culture. It is necessary to build a good library and promote the role of a true school library instead of creating a library to be recognized as a standard school. Learning and teaching are not linked and based on reading, all achievements are only virtual or have temporary value.

Third is, closely monitor school income and expenditure to avoid negativity. Resolutely remove from the industry teachers and administrators without professional conscience, and at the same time courageously protect teachers who love their profession, are capable, and dare to fight against negativity.

Four is, there needs to be specific measures to improve the material and spiritual life of teachers. It is necessary to take all necessary measures so that teachers can live on their salary without having to teach extra classes or having to "work in and out". This is both an immediate measure and a long-term strategy. If you cannot do this, it will be difficult to have high quality education.

Looking at education reform in Japan, we can see that education reform is only truly effective and brings positive change when all laws, policies, and reform projects benefit the people. Children's rights and the nation's future are the destination and starting point of reform. It is necessary to carefully calculate so as not to set reform goals that are too high when actual conditions cannot be met, leading to a situation of "beating the drum". Once the internal strength of teachers and students is respected and promoted, education will certainly flourish.