Students can choose the subjects: Unemployment teacher | Education

The new General Education program applies to high school from the 2022-2023 school year. Instead of the current 13 subjects, students will only study 12 subjects, including 7 compulsory subjects and 5 electives. Seven compulsory educational subjects and activities include: Literature, Mathematics, Foreign Language 1, Physical Education, Education for National Defense and Security, Experimental Activities, Career Orientation, Local Educational Content. Five subjects are selected from 3 subject groups (each group has at least 1 subject). That is the group of the social sciences (History, Geography, Economic Education and Law); Natural Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology); Technology and Arts Subjects (Technology, Computer Science, Arts).

Unemployment

Two years from now, the program will be introduced in 10th grade, but many elective teachers such as Ms. Tran Thi Thanh Thai (Biology at a Hanoi High School) have expressed concern about the dangers. unemployment. According to Ms Thai, according to the current program, biology is organized 1 lesson / week; Teachers like her are willing to teach 16 periods per week in all grades. He said that Biology currently has deficiencies and contradictions between study and exam in that study time is low, there is no time to practice, but the test and exams have many advanced, practical questions. .

Therefore, if students do not prepare for tests, it is difficult for them to achieve high scores. Furthermore, Biology is organized into blocks such as B (Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology); B08 (Math, Biology, English) … but these majors have very high enrollment scores, with a 9-point course not passing. Therefore, the graduation exam with difficult questions, low scores, few majors, high re-enrollment scores, students are reluctant to choose is inevitable.

“The current program is like that, with the new program, Biology is in the group of electives with the fewest students. We are worried and worried. I just hope that the syllabus and exams are more reasonable to get good grades, attracting more students to choose from. Otherwise, the fate of teachers in these subjects is unknown, ”said Ms Thai.

Mr. Nguyen Van Thuan, deputy principal of Dong Loc (Ha Tinh) High School, said the school is “having a headache” when calculating the options. “When you let the students choose, for example, 2 students choose Music, the school doesn’t know how to manage as there are currently no teachers in this subject. Or, students choose not to synchronize between subjects of natural sciences, social sciences … leading to an excess of teachers in some subjects, how they will have to be solved, ”said Thuan.

If there are few subjects that students choose the least, teachers who have been in grades 18-20 this year are suddenly unemployed, they do not know how to properly solve them. Perhaps, the industry should calculate the reconversion of subject teachers to teach supports such as: history teacher can teach more geography, geography teacher teaches more citizenship education, teacher to teach more Chemistry …

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Binh, former rector of Le Quy Don – High School (Hanoi), shared that in the program innovation training process, schools also gave a situation where students chose very few subjects . If you cannot set up a class, how to organize your teaching. If very few students choose the History subject, will the school have to link up with other schools in the region? Binh asked. According to him, the connection will also be difficult because the schools have different hours.

Orientation or no orientation to choose subjects?

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Director of the Department of Secondary Education – Ministry of Education and Training, said that many teachers are worried that they are overloaded with subjects that students choose a lot or lose their jobs if they choose too few. To avoid this situation, the Ministry of Education and Training requires schools to build combinations of 5 selected subjects from 3 groups of subjects in the program (make sure each group chooses at least 1 subject) and build some combinations of 3 clusters. The thematic themes of the 3 subjects of the program are suitable for the organizational capacity of the school, especially ensuring the standard of teaching hours for teachers. “Of course, there are combinations that will have more students to choose from, but the school has to organize the implementation so as not to choose too much or too little,” Thanh said.

The Ministry of Education and Training has just issued instructions for the implementation of the school education plan, which establishes that the director organizes the development and promulgation of the program implementation time plan for each compulsory subject, elective subject, and subject. study … ensure the total number of periods / school year as prescribed. The curriculum for each subject in each grade is organized appropriately during the school year.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Thuan, having allowed the students to choose the subject, they must comply with their choice. But in fact, the facilities and human conditions cannot be met, so the school will exchange and guide the learning organization in the permissible conditions. The school has consulted students in grades 10 and 11 to see what their trend of choice looks like, but there are no results, Thuan said. The Ha Tinh Education and Training Department is training school teachers step by step to tackle the new high school program.

A high school principal acknowledged that the new Secondary Education program gave students the right to choose subjects that were democratic, in line with trends, and at the same time comply with the school-wide career differentiation program. However, when implementing this content, there should be adequate regulations and policies on the equipment, on the premises, so that when students choose, the school can fulfill their wishes, avoiding the story of “orientation in accordance with the practical conditions ”.

“If students have the right to choose a subject but for some reason the school has not yet organized, but forces them to choose according to orientation, then they have the wrong views and goals of educational innovation,” said the principal.

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