Illustrative image (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) –The Ministry of Education and Training is setting up a programme to retrainsurplus teachers in secondary and high schools, to deal with current shortagesin kindergartens.
Under the plan, about 40,000 teachers will be retrained to work in kindergartens.
According to the ministry, Vietnamese education is facing an excess of teachersin secondary and high schools, while pre-schools lack staff.
The ministry’s statistics have recently shown anexcess of over 40,000 secondary and high school teachers across the country,while pre-schools lacked more than 30,000 teachers.
To address this situation, some localities have transferred redundantteachers to teach in preschools. However, these teachers are facingdifficulties due to differences in teaching between schools.
The most common difficulty was that many secondary and high school teacherslacked teaching skills for preschool-age children, said Nguyen Thi Van, a secondary school teacher who was assigned toteach in a kindergarten in the central province of Nghe An.
“Although we haveknowledge, we lack teaching skills for preschool. Teaching in kindergarten isvery different to teaching in secondary and high schools, and it requirespedagogical skills and talent. Teaching in kindergartens will become torture ifteachers do not have talent,” Van told vietnamnet online newspaper.
In the central province of Thanh Hoa, more than 100 redundant secondary schoolteachers in Thach Thanh district were switched to teach in primary andpreschools. However, more than 40 teachers were instructed to do other work,instead of teaching, the newspaper reported.
Discussing the situation at a recent conference, the Education and TrainingMinister Phung Xuan Nha said, at present, using redundant teachers to fill theshortage in preschools is a temporary solution, but it poses risks for thequality of teaching in kindergartens.
According to the minister, unqualified teachers in preschools are one of themain causes behind violence in some classrooms.
To deal with this problem, the ministry has assigned teacher training collegesto set up a programme to retrain redundant teachers to teach in preschoolswhich lack teachers, the minister said.
This programme will be designed scientifically to improve the quality of teachersand will be used across the country, he said.
Teachers could learn in their locality or through online programmes to reduceoverloading on teacher training colleges, Nha said.
The programme will also be flexible for teachers who specialise in math,English, literature, science, history, said Prof Nguyen Van Minh, rector of Hanoi Teachers Training University,which was assigned to set up the programme.
Theministry will work with educational departments and localities to develop exactstatistics on the number of surplus teachers, Minh said.
Under the plan, the programme will be implemented in February, he added.-VNA
Under the plan, about 40,000 teachers will be retrained to work in kindergartens.
According to the ministry, Vietnamese education is facing an excess of teachersin secondary and high schools, while pre-schools lack staff.
The ministry’s statistics have recently shown anexcess of over 40,000 secondary and high school teachers across the country,while pre-schools lacked more than 30,000 teachers.
To address this situation, some localities have transferred redundantteachers to teach in preschools. However, these teachers are facingdifficulties due to differences in teaching between schools.
The most common difficulty was that many secondary and high school teacherslacked teaching skills for preschool-age children, said Nguyen Thi Van, a secondary school teacher who was assigned toteach in a kindergarten in the central province of Nghe An.
“Although we haveknowledge, we lack teaching skills for preschool. Teaching in kindergarten isvery different to teaching in secondary and high schools, and it requirespedagogical skills and talent. Teaching in kindergartens will become torture ifteachers do not have talent,” Van told vietnamnet online newspaper.
In the central province of Thanh Hoa, more than 100 redundant secondary schoolteachers in Thach Thanh district were switched to teach in primary andpreschools. However, more than 40 teachers were instructed to do other work,instead of teaching, the newspaper reported.
Discussing the situation at a recent conference, the Education and TrainingMinister Phung Xuan Nha said, at present, using redundant teachers to fill theshortage in preschools is a temporary solution, but it poses risks for thequality of teaching in kindergartens.
According to the minister, unqualified teachers in preschools are one of themain causes behind violence in some classrooms.
To deal with this problem, the ministry has assigned teacher training collegesto set up a programme to retrain redundant teachers to teach in preschoolswhich lack teachers, the minister said.
This programme will be designed scientifically to improve the quality of teachersand will be used across the country, he said.
Teachers could learn in their locality or through online programmes to reduceoverloading on teacher training colleges, Nha said.
The programme will also be flexible for teachers who specialise in math,English, literature, science, history, said Prof Nguyen Van Minh, rector of Hanoi Teachers Training University,which was assigned to set up the programme.
Theministry will work with educational departments and localities to develop exactstatistics on the number of surplus teachers, Minh said.
Under the plan, the programme will be implemented in February, he added.-VNA
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