Education-training sector ensures successful implementation of "dual goals"

Up to now, students at all levels in the province have returned to school after a long period of online learning due to Covid-19. Province-based schools have quickly set up discipline and study habits among students. The task of Covid-19 prevention-control as well as knowledge consolidation for students has also been guaranteed by the local schools.

All schools reopen

Di An city is the locality carrying out the task of organizing face-to-face learning for students later than other districts, towns and cities in the province. Accordingly, from February 21, city-based preschools will organize to receive children while primary school will welcome students from 3rd to 5th grades. For secondary-school students, this is also the first day 6th graders return to school. Thus, as of the beginning of this week, over 99% of high-school students, 97.57% of students at continuing education centers and 100% of secondary-school and primary-school students across the province have returned to school. For pre-school level, schools only organize face-to-face teaching for children who have registration form their parents.

Chidren are guided to wash their lands and have body temperature checked before entering Hoa Thuy Tien kindergarten in Tan Uyen town

Dr. Nguyen Thi Nhat Hang, Director of provincial Department of Education and Training (DoET) said that safely, flexibly adapting to Covid-19 pandemic, effectively ensuring pandemic prevention and control, provincial DoET has advised provincial People's Committee on promulgating a plan to organize face-to-face teaching at province-based educational institutions. To ensure safety for teachers and students, schools need to conduct Covid-19 testing for teachers and students during the period of organizing face-to-face teaching.

In order to comply with regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control, provincial DoET has directed schools to strictly observe guidance documents on Covid-19 prevention and control among educational facilities. Especially, provincial DoET has coordinated with provincial Department of Health to issue a temporary guidance document on handling F0 cases at educational facilities. Upon this, each school sets up an appropriate plan to handle F0 cases.

Le Phu Hai, Head of Ben Cat town’s Division of Education and Training said that the division has worked with localities and the health sector to set up plans to cope with the situation when detecting signs of the pandemic, especially ensure conditions for Covid-19 prevention and control when educational facilities reopen. In addition, the division has also surveyed, inspected and controlled the real situation of educational facilities to assign them targets of receiving preschool children, ensuring compliance with regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control. In addition, the sector has also deployed a set of criteria for evaluating safe educational institutions among preschools and primary schools...

Provincial Department of Education and Training has also directed teachers to increase psychological consultancy and mental health care for students, especially those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic after a long time of online learning, due to the pandemic. This activity is integrated in subjects such as physical education, civic education...

Organizing teaching effectively

When students at all levels in the province return to school for face-to-face classes, schools take advantage of this precious time to continue equipping them with knowledge. In North Tan Uyen district, teachers at primary and secondary schools focused on reviewing basic knowledge for students in the first week when reopening, and then students continued studying and completing the first semester exam.

Dr. Nguyen Thi Nhat Hang said that schools have effectively implemented their education plans, ensuring proactive and flexible response to the situations of the Covid-19 pandemic in the locality. They have organized to teach core knowledge contents as a basis for further teaching the remaining contents to complete the school year's tasks. They have organized review of basic knowledge taught in a flexible manner, suitable to the situation of controlling the pandemic.

Also according to leader of provincial DoLISA, schools do not periodically check and evaluate contents that guide students to read, study, and perform by themselves as well as contents requiring students to practice, experiment during the 2021-2022 school year. "In general, after a period of face-to-face teaching, province-based schools have well performed the "dual goals" of organizing effective teaching, ensuring a safe, healthy and friendly educational environment while strictly complying with regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control ", said Dr. Nguyen Thi Nhat Hang.

The province's point of view on organizing face-to-face teaching is to effectively implement the Government’s Resolution No. 128/NQ-CP dated October 11, 2021 promulgating the Interim Regulation on “safe and flexible adaptation and effective control over the Covid-19 pandemic”. The principle of organizing face-to-face teaching is that educational facilities and schools with face-to-face teaching must be evaluated for ensuring the adequate and correct implementation of safe regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control and be regularly checked during the face-to-face teaching process.

Reported by Hong Thai-Translated by Kim Tin