Local Education Documents: Changing to Catch Up with the Country's Position

GD&TĐ - After the two-level government came into operation, adjusting local education documents became an urgent requirement.

In the 2025-2026 school year, the education sector of many provinces and cities has proactively prepared appropriate documents, ensuring consistency and flexibility in the context of strong changes.

Connecting the gold forest and silver sea

From July 1, Dak Lak province officially has a coastline of 189km. The event marks a major geographical change, and opens up new development space, connecting the golden forests and silver seas. However, for the education sector, this also poses an urgent need to update and adjust the content of local education documents to keep up with the changes of the province and the country.

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Xuan Huong - Principal of Le Quy Don High School (Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak), the subject most clearly affected by the change in boundaries is Geography. Previously, the Central Highlands provinces had no sea, so the content of local education focused mainly on highlands and mountains. Now, the newly formed Dak Lak province has a long coastline, so the teaching program needs to fully and promptly reflect this change.

“Geographical location, natural conditions, and population size have changed. Local education documents cannot remain the same. If they are not updated, students will lack information, and teachers will not have a basis to teach according to local realities,” Ms. Huong shared and recommended that education management agencies urgently organize professional seminars, conduct comprehensive assessments, and then re-compile documents for the next school year and the following years.

Students of Bac Tra My commune on the journey to the "red address".

According to Ms. Huong, in the short term, teachers can flexibly combine existing GDDP documents of Dak Lak and Phu Yen (old), however, this only solves part of the problem. Ms. Huong believes that specific instructions from the Department of Education and Training on the use and integration of content are needed, so as not to create differences between schools.

At No Trang Long Primary School (Krong Pac, Dak Lak), Ms. Le Thi Viet - Principal of the school said that using two sets of current GDDP documents in parallel is inappropriate because it only meets half of the content needs in the new province. "We propose that it is necessary to build a set of electronic documents synthesizing core content, shared by the entire province in the next school year. In the long term, there needs to be an official, unified set of documents that clearly shows the characteristics of Dak Lak province after the merger," Ms. Viet said.

Having participated in the appraisal of GDDP documents, Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Thuy - Literature teacher at Phan Chu Trinh Secondary School (Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak) realized that compiling new documents is a necessary task but cannot be completed overnight.

“The Department of Education and Training needs to give early instructions, then invite authors and teachers representing regions in the province to sit down together to write a document that is both unified and reflects the cultural, historical and geographical identity of the new province. The document should not only be academic, but also close, inspiring love for the homeland in students,” Ms. Thuy expressed.

Students of Tra Ka Primary and Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities (Tra Giap, Da Nang) in a class.

Unified and flexible

According to Dr. Do Tuong Hiep - Deputy Director of Dak Lak Department of Education and Training, the unit is currently unable to deploy a completely new set of GDDP documents due to the urgent time. However, schools can flexibly update new information based on the two old sets of documents that have been assessed.

“Both provinces have effectively implemented documents. We encourage teachers to proactively update new local information to ensure that teaching content is both adequate and appropriate,” Dr. Hiep shared.

In the coming time, the Dak Lak Department of Education and Training will organize training sessions to guide teachers on how to combine existing documents, and at the same time receive comments from schools to serve the compilation of official documents in the next school year.

Not only Dak Lak, many other localities such as Quang Ngai and Da Nang City are preparing conditions to enter the 2025-2026 school year, the first school year implementing the 2-level local government model.

After the merger, Quang Ngai province has 925 educational units and establishments. Of which, there are 339 kindergartens; 226 primary schools; 118 primary and secondary schools; 171 secondary schools; 63 high schools; 2 provincial continuing education centers; 12 vocational education - continuing education centers, 1 provincial center for supporting the development of inclusive education. The number of cadres, teachers, and employees is nearly 31,500 people and nearly 456,000 students, trainees...

Quang Ngai Education Department has implemented many solutions to stabilize the organization and maintain teaching quality in the new school year. In particular, developing local education materials is considered one of the strategic steps.

According to Mr. Tran Sy - Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Training of Quang Ngai province, this is new content so the Department of Education and Training of Quang Ngai province is waiting for specific instructions from the Ministry of Education and Training as well as the Provincial People's Committee in adjusting and developing the GDDP documents.

“Although the issue is new, the instructions and directions will be unified and flexible so that all content is within the general direction, not localized or deviated from the standard, to ensure the rights of students and improve the quality of education,” Mr. Sy added.

Students of Bac Tra My (Da Nang) participate in local cultural activities.

Help students connect with the community

Implementing the 2-level government model is an opportunity for local education sectors to be more proactive in developing local education programs, suitable to regional characteristics and student conditions.

Expressing his opinion, Mr. Tran Bao Tu - Principal of Nguyen Ba Ngoc Primary School (Bac Tra My, Da Nang) also suggested that when merging, some locations in the old GDDP documents must be adjusted to suit the local reality, so it is necessary to unify from the beginning to avoid wasting resources.

For example, in some locations, the relics of Bac Tra My in the past now have to be adjusted to the new boundary name according to the merger, we should make notes attached to the old GDDP documents, so that the students will understand clearly.

“In the first school year under the two-tier government model, the old local education documents are also a bridge for students to understand their homeland, connect with the community, be proud of where they live and contribute to the development of the locality in the future. Therefore, reasonable, harmonious and unified adjustments will avoid waste, while still ensuring good quality education for students, especially in mountainous areas,” Mr. Tu shared.

Sharing the same view, Mr. Vu Hoang Tam - Principal of Nguyen Binh Khiem Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities (Tra Doc, Da Nang) said that Da Nang City and Quang Nam Province (old) used to be a unified locality, so the local education documents of the two places have many similarities in content, culture and history. Therefore, reviewing and unifying the content in the documents is necessary to ensure that the teaching program is close to reality, while avoiding overlap and duplication.

"The GDDP documents of Da Nang and Quang Nam should be built in the direction of unified core content, used in the whole province, fully reflecting the socio-cultural characteristics of the city after the merger, ensuring quality and efficiency," Mr. Tam commented.

Dak Lak province is a combination of both highlands and coastal areas. This is an ideal condition for the GDDP documents to evoke more about the culture of ethnic minorities such as Ede, M'Nong, while updating new strengths in the sea and islands, and marine economy. However, in order for the documents to actually reach teachers and students in time for the new school year, close coordination is needed between the education sector and related departments and sectors.

“Having participated in the appraisal of GDDP documents for the former Dak Lak province, I clearly understand that the value of this document lies not only in knowledge, but also in the connection between students and their homeland.

After the merger, Dak Lak has outstanding diversity, from mountains to sea, from Ede, M'Nong to Kinh, Cham... New GDDP documents need to demonstrate that harmony, to help students have a comprehensive view of the land where they live, study, and grow up...

Therefore, do not mechanically cut and paste two old documents. You must research, scientifically debate and rewrite them correctly, from language to content structure", Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Thuy - Phan Chu Trinh Secondary School (Dak Lak) emphasized.

Rebuilding local education documents requires time and a roadmap. In the immediate future, the Department of Education and Training needs to promote the responsibility of the team that participated in compiling local education documents of the old province. Teachers have the responsibility to discuss, review, and help the department unify the key content for organizing teaching and learning. In addition, it is necessary to scientifically evaluate the content to be suitable to reality, contributing to building a new local image full of potential and rich in cultural identity.

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