Vietnam: In order to preserve and protect teaching professionals’ ethical traditions, what acts are teachers not allowed to perform?
- What are the regulations on the political qualification of teachers in Vietnam?
- What are the professional ethics of teachers in Vietnam?
- What are the standards for personal lifestyle and conduct of teachers in Vietnam?
- What acts are teachers not allowed to perform to preserve and protect teaching professionals’ ethical traditions?
What are the regulations on the political qualification of teachers in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Regulation on the teaching professional’s moral standards promulgated together with Decision No. 16/2008/QD-BGDDT defining the political qualification of teachers as follows:
- Strictly observe guidelines and policies of the Communist Party and laws of the Government; perform their duties as defined by laws and regulations. Engage themselves in ongoing learning and training efforts in order to increase the level of knowledge about political arguments to incorporate it into the teaching and educational work and meet assigned task requirements.
- Be conscious of disciplinary policies of an organization, strictly abide by decisions on appointment and assignment of an organization; serve the collective purpose and strive for common benefits.
- Become a person of exemplary character in fulfilling a citizen’s obligations, and actively participate in political and social activities.
Vietnam: In order to preserve and protect teaching professionals’ ethical traditions, what acts are teachers not allowed to perform?
What are the professional ethics of teachers in Vietnam?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of the Regulation on the teaching professional’s moral standards promulgated together with Decision No. 16/2008/QD-BGDDT stipulating professional ethics of teachers in Vietnam as follows:
- Show devotion to their chosen profession, develop an awareness of protecting their honor and professional conscience; have the spirit of solidarity, love and care and support for colleagues in both daily life and work activities; show compassion, generosity, tolerance, and have an amicable attitude towards students and colleagues; be willing to give help, protect legitimate rights and interests of students, colleagues and communities.
- Be wholeheartedly devoted to assignments; comply with statutes, rules and regulations as set out by an organization, school and teaching authority.
- Demonstrate teaching and educational equity, carry out truthful assessment of students’ competence; practice thrift and frugality, and struggle against the so-called achievement disease, corruption and extravagance.
- Carry out criticism and self-criticism in a regular and serious manner ; increase the frequency of taking classes to improve the knowledge level and professional skills, foreign language and computer proficiency with a view to performing assigned tasks in an efficient manner as well as meet rising educational demands.
What are the standards for personal lifestyle and conduct of teachers in Vietnam?
Pursuant to Article 5 of the Regulation on the teaching professional’s moral standards promulgated together with Decision No. 16/2008/QD-BGDDT stipulating standards for personal lifestyle and conduct of teachers as follows:
- Be committed to an ideal, work towards an objective, express a strong will to overcome difficulty situations, have the spirit of ongoing attempt powered by justifiable motivations and creative thinking process; practice diligence, frugality, right and justice and integrity as defined in Ho Chi Minh's ideology.
- Build a lifestyle consistent with a community’s value and conforming to traditional identities and keep pace with any social progress; learn to support and encourage civilized and progressive lifestyles as well as criticize obsolete and selfish lifestyles.
- Carry out work activities in a time-consuming, imperative and scientific fashion; show polite and civilized attitudes in social relationships and conversations with colleagues and students; deal with work requirements in an objective, enthusiastic and careful manner.
- Wear proper clothes and jewelries to meet teaching requirements which are plain, neat, and polite and ensure that they cause no adverse emotional effects and distract students’ attention.
- Show solidarity and support given to colleagues to collaboratively perform assigned duties in an effective manner; prevent and struggle against violations or offences against laws and regulations as well as professional rules. Build a close and reasonable relationship with the public, student’s parents, colleagues and students; be determined to take measures to prevent violations against laws and regulations.
- Construct families which qualify as those meeting cultural requirements, and in which family members show their love and respect to each other; take care of surrounding people; practice cultural lifestyles in public areas.
What acts are teachers not allowed to perform to preserve and protect teaching professionals’ ethical traditions?
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 6 of the Regulation on the teaching professional’s moral standards promulgated together with Decision No. 16/2008/QD-BGDDT, teachers are not allowed to perform the following acts in order to preserve and protect teaching professionals’ ethical traditions:
- Do not abuse authority and power to commit violations against laws, rules and regulations; do not obstruct or cause annoyance towards students and population.
- Do not commit fraudulent and dishonest acts during the process of learning, scientific research and conduct of teaching and educational activities.
- Do not favor or unfairly treat or take discriminatory measures against students; do not collude in or conceal negative actions that may arise during the process of teaching, learning and training undertaken by students and colleagues.
- Do not inflict damage on student’s body, hurt sense of honor and dignity of students, colleagues and others. Do not cause impact on work and life activities of colleagues and others.
- Do not organize extra classes which are inconsistent with laws and regulations.
- Do not smoke, drink beer and alcoholic beverage in workplaces, schools and other unauthorized areas or during the period of performing teaching duties and participating in educational activities.
- Do not use mobile phones and do private things during meetings on-class, learning, test proctoring and marking time.
- Do not lead factions, be of local prejudice and cause to destroy the unity among people in a collective and community life.
- Do not use teaching platforms as a place to disseminate and communicate information contrary to the views and policies of the Communist Party and Government.
- Do not evade responsibilities and repudiate duties or deliberately cease tasks without permission; do not teach and finish classes respectively later and earlier than scheduled class time, or discretionarily cancel classes or course credits, cut down and shorten the time to complete an educational program, commit professional rules which can deteriorate the discipline and order of a school.
- Do not organize or get involved in activities relating to social evils such as illegal gambling, prostitution, narcotic abuse and superstitious customs; do not use, store and disseminate depraved and toxic cultural products.
Nguyễn Thị Hồng Nhung
