Vietnam: What are the 10 core competencies of primary school students according to the 2018 General Education Program?

Be able to do their own tasks at home and school as per allocation and instruction.

Be conscious of their rights and personal wishes; initially able to present and perform some legitimate rights and needs.

- Recognize and express their emotions and feelings; know how to share their emotions and feelings with others.

- Be courteous with everyone; do not say or do things that offend others.

- Follow the study and labor plan; avoid playing to the extent of affecting study and other tasks.

- Find different ways to solve the same problem.

- Perform different tasks with various requirements.

- Exhibit personal interests and abilities.

- Know names, main activities, and roles of some occupations; relate that knowledge to the occupations of family members.

- Have a sense of summarizing and presenting learned knowledge.

- Recognize and correct mistakes in tests based on teachers' comments.
- Have a sense of learning from teachers, friends, and others to consolidate and expand understanding.

- Have a sense of following good role models.

- Recognize the importance of communication in meeting personal needs.

- Receive texts on life, nature, and society that use language combined with images like comics, simple writings.

- Initially know how to use language combined with images and gestures to present information and ideas.

- Pay attention when communicating; recognize the attitude of the communication object.

- Know how to make and maintain friendships.

- Recognize disagreements and conflicts between self and friends or among friends; know how to yield to or persuade friends.

Have the habit of exchanging and helping each other in studying; know how to complete study tasks together as instructed by teachers.

Understand the group's tasks and identify their responsibilities and activities within the group after being guided and assigned.

Recognize some prominent features of group members to propose an appropriate task allocation plan.

Know how to strive to complete assigned tasks and share in helping other members complete their assignments.

Be able to report the group's task completion results; self-assess strengths and weaknesses under teachers' guidance.

- Have initial knowledge about some countries in the region and the world.

- Participate in some international integration activities as guided by the school.

Be able to identify and clarify new information and ideas from given sources as guided.

Be able to collect information from situations, recognize simple issues, and ask questions.

Based on existing understanding, know how to form new ideas and predict outcomes when executed.

- Identify major content and ways to achieve set goals as guided.

- Comment on the significance of activities.

Raise questions about surrounding objects and phenomena; not hesitate to express personal opinions on different information about objects and phenomena; ready to change upon recognizing errors.