Company LOGO ON Primary Teacher Professional Profiles REPORT MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING PRIMARY TEACHER DEVELOPMENT PROJECT June 2006 A Prof. Nguyen Tri

CONTENTS 3)Pilot application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale 3)Pilot application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale 4)Finalize and apply Primary Teacher Professional Profiles 4)Finalize and apply Primary Teacher Professional Profiles 1) The process of developing the Profiles 2) Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam

1. The process of developing the Profiles In the pre-phase of PTDP, the Profiles have been developed by University of Melbourne + Institute of Education Science ( ) In the beginning of PTDP, the Profiles have been developed by the consultants of Component A (9 - 12/2002) The first outline on the Profiles - 6 strands - 45 requirements - 4 levels The Profile Draft (the first) (13/12/2002) - 3 strands - 21 requirements - 3 levels The Profile Draft (the second) (17/1/2003) - 3 strands - 18 requirements - 3 levels Workshop with the office of government, the board of central education science, ministries, press (12/ /2003)

1. The process of developing the Profiles Conduct the pilot application of the Profiles on primary teacher (5/ /2004) Collect comments from press and television, conduct local workshop (1/ /2003) The Profile Draft (the third) (28/4/2003) - 3 strands - 14 requirements - 3 levels The Profile Draft (the fourth) (20/4/2004) - 3 strands - 14 requirements - 4 levels Conduct the widen application of the Profiles on primary teacher (10/ /2005) The Profile Draft (the fifth) (30/7/2005) - 3 strands - 14 requirements - 4 levels Finalize and apply the Profiles (6/2005 – now) Finalize the Profiles Draft Apply the Profiles (Cont)

2. Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam The Profiles Strand ……….. Requirement ………….. Structural model of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam

2. Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam The contents of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam Professional competence of primary teachers Strand 1: Personality, political ideal Strand 2: Knowledge Strand 3: Pedagogic skills (cont)

2. Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam  Requirement 1: Have the love for the country and socialism; implement the duty of citizen  Requirement 2: Love, respect, and equally treat to all students, protect the legal right of students  Requirement 3: Love profession, self-train on personality, reputation, and confidence of teachers; be responsible, operative, and disciplinary  Requirement 4: Be interested in self-studying, self- training to enrich the personality, political knowledge, and professional skills; be responsible for self-training on health The requirements on personality, political ideal (cont)

2. Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam  Requirement 5: Have standardized basic knowledge which has been trained to teach the subjects in the curriculum  Requirement 6: Have necessary knowledge of pedagogic and aged psychology, primary education, and exclusive education for disable children; be good at foreign language and informatics  Requirement 7: Understand about policies of the Party and the State  Requirement 8: Have common understandings about environmental education, population, army security, traffic safety, right and duty of children, school healthcare, drug protection, social evils  Requirement 9: Have understandings about political, economic, culture-social and educational situation of the localities where teachers work The requirements on knowledge (cont)

2. Primary Teacher Professional Profiles in Vietnam  Requirement 10: Be able to analyze the curriculum and textbook; Know how to make teaching plan and lesson plan under the reform orientation in line with different students  Requirement 11: Be able to organize teaching activities to promote the activeness of learning process of students  Requirement 12: Do well the task of form teachers and know how to organize the educational activities  Requirement 13: Have good communication skills with students, patents, colleagues, and other people  Requirement 14: Be able to make, store, and use the records of teaching The requirements on pedagogic skills (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale The scope of trial: primary teachers 1014 primary schools 898 commutes 105 districts 10 provinces Including: 350,000 data units for requirements

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale The structure of primary teacher under regions: -Vast majority of whom are teaching in the mountainous and rural areas (65,58%) -Large proportion of whom are teaching in the urban areas and town (34,40%) AreaNumber% Mountainous ,47 Rural ,11 Town ,52 Urban ,88 (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale Education qualification Number% University 23309,32 Teacher Training College ,99 Teacher Training School ,87 Teacher Training School ,76 Below Teacher Training School 4351,74 Others 3601,44 The structure of primary teachers’ education qualification has been changed (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale Profile-based assessment for primary teachers basing on strands (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale Profile-based assessment for primary teachers basing on the requirements of personality and political ideal (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale Profile-based assessment for primary teachers basing on the requirements of knowledge (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale Profile-based assessment for primary teachers basing on the requirements of pedagogic skills (cont)

3. The trial application of Primary Teacher Professional Profiles at large scale Collect the need for in-service training of primary teachers in the coming time Modules No of need for in- service Reform on methods of teaching at primary schools Test and evaluate the teaching results of primary teachers Environmental education Use teaching aids and apply information technology on teaching at primary schools 8899 Art and Teaching Art5900 Music and Teaching Music5.701 Receive needs for in-service training under 17 modules. The need for in-service training of some modules are described as bellowed : (cont)

4. Finalize and apply the Profiles Finalize and submit Primary Teacher Professional Profiles for promulgation  Send Department of Primary Education the documents of the Profile Draft  Department of Primary Education is responsible for making the procedures of promulgation

4. Finalize and apply the Profiles Use the Profiles as one of important basis to develop the following documents: 1.The framework program for training primary teachers at college level (issued on 6/04); 2.The upgrading program for training primary teachers who graduated from teacher training schools with college level (issued on 8/04); 3.The framework program for training at university level (on the way to submit for issue); 4.Design 30 modules of pre- and in-service training for primary teachers (finalized 24 modules); 5.Study and apply the Profiles on training primary teachers in TTIs (finalized 30 research topics); (cont)

4. Finalize and apply the Profiles 6.Criteria for assessing teachers’ teaching period (used in the competition of selecting good teachers in primary schools at central level); 7.Design the set of quality accreditation standards for primary teacher training programs (on the way to submit for issue); 8.Design 3 titles and professional standards of 3 titles (sent to Department of Personnel Organization); 9.Design the requirements of assessing and clarifying the professional skills of primary teachers (on the way of designing); 10.Design the principles of primary schools (on the way of designing). (cont)