What are criteria 1 for assessment of preschools in Vietnam?

What are 05 criteria 1 for assessment of preschools in Vietnam?

Based on Section 1 Chapter 2 Circular 19/2018/TT-BGDDT, the criteria for evaluating a level 1 preschool are as follows:

(1). Criterion 1: School organization and management

- Criterion 1.1: Orientation, strategy for school construction and development

+ In line with the objectives of preschool education as stipulated in the Education Law, local socio-economic development orientation in each stage, and the school's resources;

+ Defined in writing and approved by the competent authority;

+ Publicly disclosed by posting at the school premises, on the school's website (if any), or through local mass media, the education and training office's website.

- Criterion 1.2: School council (Management council for private schools) and other councils

+ Established according to regulations;

+ Perform functions, duties, and rights as stipulated;

+ Activities are regularly reviewed and evaluated.

- Criterion 1.3: Communist Party of Vietnam organization, unions, and other organizations within the school

+ Unions and other organizations have a structure as regulated;

+ Operate in accordance with regulations;

+ Annually, activities are reviewed and evaluated.

- Criterion 1.4: Principal, vice-principal, professional groups, and office groups

+ Has a principal, the number of vice-principals according to regulations;

+ Professional groups and office groups are structured as regulated;

+ Professional groups and office groups have activity plans and perform tasks as regulated.

- Criterion 1.5: Organization of child groups and kindergarten classes

+ Child groups and kindergarten classes are divided by age; if the number of children in each group or class does not reach 50% of the maximum number of children stipulated in the preschool charter, then mixed-age groups or classes are organized;

+ Child groups and kindergarten classes are taught in two sessions per day;

+ Each group or class has no more than two children with the same type of disability.

- Criterion 1.6: Administrative, financial, and property management

+ School records are stored as regulated;

+ Prepare estimates, implement collection and expenditure, finalize accounts, statistics, financial, and property reporting; publicly and periodically self-inspect finances, properties according to the internal expenditure regulations, supplemented, updated in line with actual conditions and current regulations;

+ Manage and use finances and properties for the right purposes and effectively to serve educational activities.

- Criterion 1.7: Management of staff, teachers, and employees

+ There are plans to provide professional training for management staff, teachers, and employees;

+ Clear and reasonable allocation and use of management staff, teachers, and employees, ensuring effective school operation;

+ Management staff, teachers, and employees are guaranteed their rights as regulated.

- Criterion 1.8: Management of educational activities

+ Education plan suitable for current regulations, local actual conditions, and school conditions;

+ Education plan fully implemented;

+ Education plan reviewed, evaluated, and promptly adjusted.

- Criterion 1.9: Implementation of grassroots democracy regulations

+ Management staff, teachers, and employees participate in discussions, give opinions when building plans, rules, regulations, related to school activities;

+ Complaints, denunciations, petitions, reflections (if any) within the school's handling authority are resolved according to the law;

+ Annually, there is a report on implementing grassroots democracy regulations.

- Criterion 1.10: Ensuring school security, safety, and order

+ Have plans to ensure security, order; food safety and hygiene; accident and injury prevention; fire and explosion safety; disaster prevention; disease prevention; prevention of social evils and school violence; schools with kitchens for children are certified for food safety conditions;

+ Have a suggestion box, hotline, and other forms to receive and handle public feedback; ensuring the safety of management staff, teachers, employees, and children within the school;

+ No discrimination, violent behavior, or legal violations on gender equality within the school.

(2). Criterion 2: Management staff, teachers, employees

- Criterion 2.1: For the principal, vice-principal

+ Meet the standards as regulated;

+ Rated as meeting the principal standard or higher;

+ Trained and trained in education management as regulated.

- Criterion 2.2: For teachers

+ Sufficient number of teachers, reasonable structure ensuring the implementation of the preschool education program as regulated;

+ 100% of teachers meet training qualification standards as regulated;

+ At least 95% of teachers meet the professional teacher standards at the satisfactory level or higher.

- Criterion 2.3: For employees

+ Have employees or concurrent teachers to undertake tasks assigned by the principal;

+ Reasonable and appropriate job assignments based on capacity; (this indicator's effectiveness is suspended by Clause 8 Article 1 Circular 29/2021/TT-BGDDT effective from October 20, 2021)

+ Complete assigned tasks.

(3). Criterion 3: Facilities and teaching equipment

- Criterion 3.1: Area, campus, and yard

+ Construction land area or average minimum construction area per child meets regulations;

+ Has gates, school name signs, walls, or surrounding fences; the campus ensures hygiene, suitable for the landscape, friendly, and safe for children;

+ Has play yards, play porches, class corridors; common play yards; play yards with trees arranged appropriately for the school's conditions, safe, ensuring all children can use them.

- Criterion 3.2: Child group rooms, kindergarten class rooms, and learning service rooms

+ Number of rooms for child groups, kindergarten classes corresponding to the number of age-specific classes;

+ Has common activity rooms, sleeping rooms (common activity rooms can be used as sleeping rooms for kindergarten classes); has rooms for organizing physical education, art education, or multifunctional rooms, ensuring to meet the minimum needs for child nurturing, care, and education activities;

+ Has lighting systems, fan systems (in areas with electricity); has filing cabinets, teaching equipment.

- Criterion 3.3: Administrative and management rooms

+ Has the prescribed types of rooms;

+ Has the minimum equipment in the rooms;

+ Reasonable arrangement of parking areas for administration staff, teachers, and employees ensuring safety and order.

- Criterion 3.4: Dining organization rooms

+ Kitchen built solidly or semi-solidly;

+ Food storage divided into areas for different types of food, ensuring food hygiene safety regulations;

+ Has a refrigerator for food sample storage.

- Criterion 3.5: Equipment, utensils, toys

+ Has equipment, utensils, toys meeting the minimum requirements for child nurturing, care, and education;

+ Equipment, utensils, toys made or outside the regulated list must ensure educational value and safety suitable for children;

+ Annually, equipment is inventoried and repaired.

- Criterion 3.6: Sanitation facilities, water supply, and drainage systems

+ Toilets for children, toilets for administration staff, teachers, employees ensure environmental non-pollution; toilets ensure convenient use for disabled children;

+ Has a drainage system ensuring environmental hygiene; a clean water system ensuring drinking and daily use water for teachers, staff, and children;

+ Collection and treatment of waste and waste products ensure environmental hygiene.

(4). Criterion 4: Relationship between school, family, and society

- Criterion 4.1: Parents' representation board

+ Established and operated according to the Regulation of the Parents' Representative Board;

+ Has an activity plan according to the school year;

+ Organize the implementation of the activity plan on schedule.

- Criterion 4.2: Advisory work with party committee, authorities, and cooperation with organizations, individuals in the school;

+ Advising the party committee, local authorities to implement the school's education plan;

+ Propagating to raise community awareness and responsibility on Communist Party, State, education sector policies, and the school's educational goals, content, and plan;

+ Mobilize and use legal resources from organizations and individuals appropriately.

(5). Criterion 5: Activities and results of child nurturing, care, and education

- Criterion 5.1: Implementation of the preschool education program

+ Implement the preschool education program according to the plan;

+ The school develops the preschool education program issued by the Ministry of Education and Training suitable to the professional regulations of the education management agency and the school condition;

+ Periodically review, evaluate the implementation of the preschool education program, and promptly adjust appropriately.

- Criterion 5.2: Organization of child nurturing, care, and education activities

+ Flexibly implement methods, ensuring suitability with educational goals, preschool children, and school conditions;

+ Organize an educational environment oriented towards enabling children to play and experience;

+ Organize educational activities in diverse forms suitable for children's ages and actual conditions.

- Criterion 5.3: Results of nurturing and health care

+ The school cooperates with local medical facilities to organize health care activities for children;

+ 100% of children undergo health checks, height and weight measurements, and nutritional assessments using growth charts as regulated;

+ At least 80% of malnourished, overweight, and obese children are appropriately intervened, and their nutritional status improves compared with the beginning of the school year.

- Criterion 5.4: Education results

+ Attendance rate of at least 90% for 5-year-old children, 85% for children under 5; schools in difficult areas achieve at least 85% for 5-year-old children and 80% for children under 5;

+ At least 85% of 5-year-old children complete the preschool education program; schools in difficult areas achieve at least 80%;

+ Disabled children in inclusive education and children in difficult circumstances receive individual education plans from the school.

What are 05 criteria 1 for assessment of preschools in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

What is the purpose of educational quality accreditation and national standard recognition for preschools in Vietnam?

Based on Article 3 of the Regulations on educational quality accreditation and national standard recognition for preschools promulgated with Circular 19/2018/TT-BGDDT, the purposes are as follows:

- Educational quality accreditation aims to determine whether a preschool meets the educational goals in each stage; create plans for quality improvement, maintain and enhance the quality of the school's activities; publicly inform state management agencies and society about the school's quality status; enable state management agencies to evaluate, recognize, or not recognize the school as meeting educational quality accreditation.

- National standard recognition encourages investment and mobilization of resources for education, contributing to continuously improving the quality and effectiveness of the preschool.

What is the process for assessing the quality of education and recognizing national standards for kindergartens in Vietnam?

Based on Article 4 of the Regulations on educational quality accreditation and national standard recognition for preschools promulgated with Circular 19/2018/TT-BGDDT, the process includes the following steps:

Step 1. Self-evaluation.

Step 2. External evaluation.

Step 3. Recognition of school meeting educational quality accreditation and national standard.