Many teachers said they were very frustrated with having to participate in too many competitions, leaving them with no time or energy for professional teaching activities, and wished to escape this "overwhelming" situation.
The article "Overwhelmed" by all kinds of competitions published in Thanh Nien on November 12 reflects the proliferation of online competitions and training in schools, leading to "overwhelming" for teachers and students. In addition, teachers are "surrounded" by all kinds of competitions, movements, cultural activities, and excellent teachers. The occasion of celebrating Vietnamese Teachers' Day is an occasion to show gratitude to teachers, but teachers feel too exhausted, too tired, "out of breath" because all day, in addition to teaching, they are busy with all kinds of competitions. The article received many sympathetic opinions from teachers.
Teachers are 'overwhelmed' with all kinds of competitions
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'Overeating' because of art competitions, online competitions, doing surveys, watching TV
Teacher Minh Le wrote: "Not only theeducation sector's competitions, but also other competitions in other sectors also force teachers and students to participate to get data. They also force students and teachers to watch performances and cheering, even on Sundays or evenings. It's so hard."
Reader j3Zpg... said: "We teachers are also very frustrated with these types of exams, even forcing us to watch TV."
Reader Huy Pham was upset: "The most frustrating thing is the IOE exam. It is a voluntary exam but parents and students do not understand. Businesses benefit a lot from self-study packages and mock exams but do not pay any commission to teachers, there is no cost to organize the rounds, businesses also ignore it. The most frustrating thing is that when recording, they have to upload it to YouTube or Google Drive, parents do not know so they blame the teachers, students are excited but disappointed because there are no prizes for first and second place."
Teacher Lan Anh Nguyen Thi stated the reality: "Not only are students fed up, but we teachers are also fed up with research competitions, surveys, opinion gatherings..."
Reader ofP5 shared: "When will the competitions end? It's all due to the serious disease of achievements, this school competes with that school, this district competes with that district, the people in the upper echelons take pride in those achievements, use them as a foundation to be praised and promoted... The Department of Education evaluates principals based on achievements. Principals who want to be evaluated as excellent force teachers and students to take exams to report the school's achievements." According to this reader, the most miserable people in this reality are teachers and students. "Teachers don't have time to invest in their expertise, students have to work hard to study for all kinds of exams, study and take exams for everything under the sun, in addition to the competitions of other departments...".
"The teaching profession is like being a daughter-in-law to 100 families, it's true"
FDNM account... exclaimed: "The teaching profession is like being a daughter-in-law to 100 families. Only those in the profession can feel it."
A teacher in Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City told Thanh Nien reporter that this teacher is currently participating in submitting digital lecture and STEM lecture exams, however, the teacher received information about the contest urgently. If the time is extended, so that teachers can participate more leisurely, the pressure will be much less. For example, teachers with lectures for grades 6, 7, 8 can edit and submit them in time, but the remaining teachers who submit lectures for grades 5, 9, 12 - General Education Program 2018 are afraid they will not be able to make it in time. "Many teachers are very exhausted and tired," said this teacher.
Surrounded by enough pressure, teachers are overloaded and exhausted.
On the evening of November 12, a primary school teacher in Thu Duc City (HCMC) contacted a reporter and confided: "We are so tired that we can't stand it anymore with all the art competitions and vertical and horizontal movements. Tomorrow is the student art competition, Thursday is the civil servant conference, Friday is the invitation letter to retired teachers, Saturday and Sunday is the art competition organized by the Labor Federation. Next Wednesday is November 20. Next Saturday and Sunday, we will film clips of the art competition of students and teachers organized by the Department of Education. Thursday is the class observation...".
Previously, as reported by Thanh Nien Newspaper, a teacher named Minh Hao (character's name has been changed), teaching at a primary school in District 12 (HCMC), said: "As a teacher, I understand the purpose of online competitions is to help students have the opportunity to review and entertain, and they participate voluntarily. Participants are students who have strengths, interests, and conditions, and know how to use computers. I also know that the Ministry of Education and Training issued a document stating that online competitions are only intellectual playgrounds; schools, especially primary schools, are not allowed to force students to participate, they only participate voluntarily". However, according to this teacher, there is a phenomenon of evaluating competitions and the work of homeroom teachers based on the percentage of students in the class participating in competitions. From there, it may affect the teachers' additional income (income according to Resolution No. 08/2023 dated September 19, 2023 of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council on promulgating regulations on spending additional income according to Resolution No. 98 dated June 24, 2023 of the National Assembly on piloting a number of specific mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City).
Teacher Minh Hao also shared that when Ho Chi Minh City had specific policies for public teachers, including income according to Resolution 08, many difficulties for teachers were solved. However, there were situations where principals used emulation, achievements, and competition results to control teachers, evaluate whether they were eligible to receive money according to Resolution 08 or not...
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/giao-vien-mong-het-canh-boi-thuc-vi-du-loai-cuoc-thi-185241114075700109.htm
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