Unify the teaching plan of 2 sessions/day at all three levels

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has just issued an official dispatch on guidelines for organizing 2-session teaching/day for general education from the 2025-2026 school year. Accordingly, primary schools will implement 2-session teaching/day, with no more than 7 periods per day; secondary and high schools will implement 2-session teaching/day according to the roadmap, organizing and implementing 2-session teaching/day in schools with adequate facilities and teaching staff.

Flexible organization of teaching 2 sessions/day

According to the guidance document, the Ministry of Education and Training requires that the two-session teaching/day applied from the 2025-2026 school year must ensure the goal of effectively implementing the goals of the General Education Program, ensuring the duration of teaching subjects and organizing educational activities; not causing overload, suitable for students' psychology and health; ensuring the rights, meeting the needs and aspirations of students, suitable for the actual conditions of the school and locality; effectively implementing the policy of socializing education to ensure the principles of voluntariness, publicity, transparency, no coercion, in accordance with the provisions of law; effectively using facilities, teaching equipment and teaching staff, promoting the proactive and creative role of professional groups.

Teaching 2 sessions/day will be organized in accordance with the practical conditions of the schools.

Teaching 2 sessions/day is clearly divided between session 1 and session 2 to ensure scientific, flexible and comprehensive development of students. In which, session 1 is the time to implement the main General Education Program, including compulsory subjects and educational activities for all levels of general education, elective subjects, selected subjects, advanced topics (for high school level) according to regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. This is compulsory teaching content to ensure the requirements of the General Education Program.

Session 2 is the time to organize supplementary educational activities, develop capacity, nurture excellent students, tutor students who have not met the requirements of the General Education Program, life skills education, financial education, art education, physical education, STEM/STEAM, career guidance, artificial intelligence, foreign languages... in the direction of comprehensive development suitable for students' psychology at each level of education.

The guidance document also notes that the organization of sessions 1 and 2 can be flexible in terms of time and balanced in terms of duration (not fixed as session 1 in the morning and session 2 in the afternoon), suitable to the conditions of each school; encourages educational institutions to diversify teaching methods and organize educational activities to improve the quality of comprehensive education for students.

Ensures no overload for students, teachers and parents

To ensure the conditions for organizing and implementing 2-session teaching/day, the Ministry of Education and Training requires the Departments of Education and Training to play an important role in advising the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities to coordinate teachers, invest in facilities, develop policies and mechanisms, and issue specific instructions.

The Departments of Education and Training guide general education institutions in the area to develop a plan to organize 2-session teaching/day in accordance with the practical situation, ensuring a clear implementation roadmap, clearly mobilized resources; clear teaching content and methods, clear responsibilities of the subjects, clear results and quality of education; closely coordinate with local authorities and social forces in the area during the implementation process to achieve the highest efficiency.

Localities strengthen facilities to ensure 2 sessions/day of teaching.

The arrangement of teachers and facilities must be based on local realities and conditions, ensuring that students, teachers and parents are not overloaded. General education institutions are responsible for surveying students' learning needs in the second session before the start of the new school year to have a plan to organize educational content that meets students' learning needs and is suitable for the school's conditions; publicize the plan, content and timetable for teaching 2 sessions/day to students, parents and on the school's information page; organize communication so that students, parents and social forces understand and agree with the implementation of Directive 17/CT-TTg and the regulations on teaching 2 sessions/day in this document; fulfill the responsibility to explain to management agencies and social forces when requested.

General education institutions develop lunch and break plans with content and forms suitable to actual conditions to ensure the unity and voluntariness of students and parents and in accordance with regulations on school safety, food hygiene, ensuring nutrition and health for students. At the same time, implement socialized education according to the provisions of law, coordinate with universities, research institutions, vocational training institutions, enterprises, organizations, and individuals to participate in appropriate educational activities to support the organization of teaching and learning 2 sessions/day to ensure practicality, efficiency, publicity, transparency, according to the provisions of law; mobilize experts, artisans, artists, and professional athletes to organize educational activities suitable to local conditions.

Source: https://cand.com.vn/giao-duc/thong-nhat-phuong-an-day-hoc-2-buoi-ngay-o-ca-ba-cap-hoc-i777102/