Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Secondary School improves the quality of education for ethnic minority students.

GD&TĐ - By maintaining the boarding school's discipline and improving the quality of education, Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Secondary School (Phu Tho) is gradually creating positive changes in education.

Despite the many challenges of a mountainous area, Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Secondary School (Tan Son commune, Phu Tho province) has maintained stable teaching practices and is gradually improving the overall quality of education for ethnic minority students.

The changes in the 2025-2026 school year demonstrate the school's efforts to maintain the boarding school's standards while simultaneously improving the quality of advanced education in line with current educational reform requirements.

Maintaining discipline in boarding schools in mountainous regions.

In the 2025-2026 school year, Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School will have 39 staff members, including 3 administrators, 23 teachers, and 13 support staff. The school will organize 9 classes with a total of 315 students. Notably, 98% of the students are from ethnic minority groups, and 100% of them study and live in the boarding school.

Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School is promoting life skills education for its students.

This unique situation creates significant pressure on the school's management and education. The majority of students come from remote villages; their families face economic difficulties; and some parents do not closely monitor their children's studies. This directly impacts students' self-study habits, life skills, and academic discipline.

Given this reality, the school has determined that maintaining order in the boarding school is a prerequisite for improving the quality of education. Student management is implemented comprehensively, from homeroom teachers and subject teachers to the boarding school supervisors. Coordination between the school, parents, and local authorities is maintained regularly to provide timely support to students in their studies and daily lives.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Thinh, Principal of Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School, said that the school always prioritizes improving the quality of education for ethnic minority students by establishing good study habits and boarding school living practices. Therefore, in addition to teaching, the school focuses on life skills education, fostering self-learning skills, and creating a safe learning environment for students.

The classrooms at Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School are spacious, clean, and beautiful.

According to Mr. Nguyen Duc Thinh, for boarding schools in mountainous areas, focusing solely on imparting knowledge without paying attention to discipline, skills, and student psychology will make it difficult to achieve sustainable improvements in educational quality. Therefore, homeroom teachers and dorm supervisors should regularly coordinate with parents to understand students' circumstances and psychology; from there, they can provide appropriate support and limit the situation where students become completely dependent on the school's management.

In the context of current educational reforms, the requirements for ethnic minority boarding schools go beyond simply maintaining student numbers or ensuring adequate living conditions. More importantly, they must create a disciplined and safe learning environment that helps students develop self-learning skills, adaptability, and a sense of self-improvement. This is also the foundation for improving the quality of education in ethnic minority areas in a substantive and sustainable way.

Step-by-step improvement of the quality of advanced education.

Alongside mass education, Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School focuses on identifying and nurturing students with outstanding abilities in cultural subjects, science and technology, and creative activities.

Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School is enhancing extracurricular activities and experiential learning for its students.

In the 2025-2026 school year, the school's students achieved many positive results in various competitions. In the Grade 9 cultural subject excellence competition at the commune level, they won 5 awards, including 2 first prizes, 2 third prizes, and 1 consolation prize.

In the field of science and technology, the school won 1 first prize, 1 third prize at the commune level, and 1 second prize at the provincial level. In the Youth and Children's Innovation Competition, the school won 1 consolation prize at the provincial level. At the provincial-level Grade 9 excellent student competition, the school's students won 4 prizes, including 1 second prize, 2 third prizes, and 1 consolation prize.

In addition, the school's teachers won a second prize at the provincial-level excellent teacher competition. In the commune-level gifted student competition, the school won a total of 42 prizes, including 2 first prizes, 10 second prizes, 13 third prizes, and 17 consolation prizes.

Leaders of Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School present awards to teachers.

These results demonstrate positive progress in identifying and nurturing gifted students at the grassroots level, especially in disadvantaged areas. Compared to the actual conditions of a boarding school in a mountainous region, this is a sign that ethnic minority students are gradually being given access to a higher-quality learning environment, fostering their thinking and creativity.

Notably, the school's approach to nurturing gifted students focuses not only on exam results but also on developing students' abilities in line with the requirements of general education reform. The school strengthens the creation of open-ended questions, raises the demands for applying knowledge, and encourages self-learning and critical thinking instead of just rote memorization.

For science, technology, and youth innovation activities, students are encouraged to develop ideas from real-life experiences; priority is given to models and products that can be applied in learning and daily life.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Thinh, Principal of Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School, shared that the school's focus on advanced education not only aims for results in competitions but also helps ethnic minority students develop skills, self-confidence, and adaptability to new learning requirements. Teachers are assigned according to their expertise; students are trained in research, presentation, critical thinking, and teamwork skills.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Thinh - Principal of Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School, presents awards to students.

From the experience of Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School, it can be seen that improving the quality of education in ethnic minority areas cannot be achieved in a short time, but requires a persistent and synchronized process, from management practices to innovation in teaching methods.

The school's results show that when students are provided with a stable learning environment and receive attention in terms of knowledge, skills, and psychology, the quality of education will gradually improve.

Despite facing numerous challenges, Tan Son Ethnic Boarding Junior High School is striving to maintain its teaching discipline, improve the overall quality of education, and develop specialized education. This is also an important foundation contributing to raising the intellectual level and creating human resources for the mountainous and ethnic minority areas of Phu Tho province in the current period.

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