Choose the optimal solution to have a unified set of textbooks

This information was given at the Conference to review and evaluate the implementation results of the general education program and textbooks for the 2020-2025 period organized by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) on October 17. Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son chaired the conference.

Sharing at the conference, Mr. Thai Van Tai, Director of the General Education Department, Ministry of Education and Training, said that the 2018 General Education Program was issued and implemented by the Ministry of Education and Training according to the roadmap nationwide. The program is built in an open direction, allowing schools to proactively build educational plans suitable to reality.

The Ministry of Education and Training has adjusted the curriculum of the subjects History and Geography, Geography, History, and Civic Education due to the impact of the implementation of the two-level government apparatus. Regarding textbook compilation, this is the first time the socialization policy has been successfully implemented, attracting the participation of 7 publishers and 12 joint stock companies. The number of authors participating in textbook compilation is large - about 3,844 people.

This data shows that the policy has been successful in mobilizing diverse knowledge resources from across society. Local educational materials have also been actively compiled by localities and submitted to the Ministry of Education and Training for approval, contributing to bringing local-specific content into schools. As of the 2024-2025 school year, the 2018 General Education Program has been implemented in all grades nationwide.

The conference was held directly at the Ministry of Education and Training combined with online with 40 connecting points nationwide.

Assessment has been fundamentally reformed to match the goal of developing capacity and reducing the pressure on scores. Assessment focuses on the process and progress of students. Assessment forms are more diverse, including assessment through learning products, projects, presentations and increased use of non-textbook materials in periodic tests to properly assess students' capacity.

Despite many achievements, in the process of implementing the program, general education textbooks for the period 2020 - 2025 still face difficulties and inadequacies such as local surplus and shortage of teachers; lack of schools, classrooms and teaching equipment; some localities are slow in submitting documents for approval of local educational materials; schools are still confused in building educational plans for new subjects...

According to Director Thai Van Tai, in the coming period, the Ministry of Education and Training will continue to effectively implement the program, replicate good models and good practices; continue to innovate testing and assessment methods to develop qualities and capacities; strengthen teaching and learning of foreign languages, Information Technology, and apply AI in teaching; adjust the duration of Science , Information Technology, Technology, and Arts subjects; and research decentralization to localities in approving local educational materials.

Regarding the task of ensuring a unified set of textbooks nationwide, the Ministry of Education and Training is reviewing and adjusting legal documents to ensure the legal basis for implementing a unified set of textbooks; selecting the optimal solution and organizing implementation to have a unified set of textbooks from the 2026-2027 school year. Along with that, the Ministry of Education and Training will also develop a plan to organize training for teachers to use the new set of textbooks along with the existing sets of textbooks to maximize the effectiveness of the General Education Program; implementing a roadmap to provide free textbooks to all students by 2030.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son speaks at the conference.

Speaking at the conference, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son emphasized: Among the many contents of fundamental and comprehensive innovation in education and training, the promulgation and implementation of the 2018 General Education Program is a very important step, affecting both the breadth and depth of education, especially general education. To date, the 2018 General Education Program has completed an implementation cycle. In 2023, the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education (now the Committee on Culture and Society) chaired the National Assembly's supervision of the implementation of the 2018 General Education Program. The supervision results showed that the implementation of the Program has achieved many important results. In addition, the 2018 General Education Program strongly shifted from accessing content and equipping knowledge to developing learners' capacity.

Resolution 71 on breakthrough development of education and training of the Politburo also continues to emphasize this orientation. Therefore, it is also necessary to consider what the program has achieved in the goal of capacity development, what needs to be done in the coming time to continue promoting that orientation. Textbooks are one of the factors, a tool to implement the 2018 General Education Program, so it will also be evaluated in the overall implementation of the program. The evaluation results will be an important basis for the leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training to make appropriate decisions for the next stage.

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