What is the "2-7-35" teaching method for primary education in Vietnam?

What is the "2-7-35" teaching method for primary education in Vietnam?

"2-7-35" teaching method involves organizing 2 sessions per day, with no more than 7 lessons per day, each lesson lasting 35 minutes, which is one of the duties of primary education for the academic year 2024-2025.

To be specific: based on Section 1, Part B of Official Dispatch 3898/BGDDT-GDTH in 2024, the guidance is as follows:

*Implementation of the General Education Program

The Department of Education and Training directs educational institutions to implement the primary school level General Education Program according to specialized guidance documents on primary education issued by the Ministry of Education and Training. To be specific:

- Ensure a ratio of 1 classroom per class, facilities, and student numbers per class according to the elementary school regulations; have adequate minimum teaching equipment as stipulated; ensure a ratio of 1.5 teachers per class and the teacher structure to teach all subjects, educational activities, and organize 2 sessions per day as required.

- Implement teaching of compulsory subjects and educational activities, elective subjects according to the primary school General Education Program; organize activities to strengthen student completion of learning content, educational activities catering to students' needs, interests, and talents; activities exploring nature, society, culture, history, and local traditions.

- Organize teaching for 2 sessions per day, with no more than 7 lessons each day, each lesson lasting 35 minutes; implement a minimum teaching plan of 9 sessions per week with 32 lessons per week; ensure the education plan appropriately allocates educational content, helping students complete learning tasks and meet the program's requirements.

Facilitate students in studying elective subjects and participating in educational activities to achieve comprehensive education goals in primary school; timetables should be scientifically arranged, ensuring a reasonable balance between teaching content and educational activities, appropriately distributing time throughout the school day and week according to the psychological and physical characteristics of primary school students.

- For primary schools that do not have the conditions to organize 2 sessions per day, based on teaching correct and sufficient content and time for compulsory subjects as prescribed, the primary school should proactively determine content, choose organizational forms, and appropriately allocate time for elective subjects when conditions are met, as well as consolidation activities and other educational activities.

- Develop a plan to organize day-boarding activities suitable to actual conditions, with the agreement and voluntary participation of students and parents, and in compliance with regulatory guidelines.

Day-boarding activities should be organized from after the morning session to before the afternoon session starts, contributing to training students in life skills, necessary competences, attributes, discipline, self-service, responsibility, sharing, and love;

Day-boarding activities should be flexible and could include activities like organizing lunch, nap, play, and entertainment for students; organizing lunch and day-boarding must meet safety and food hygiene regulations, ensuring nutrition and student health.

- Organize activities for students outside of official school hours based on their needs and interests from after official school hours until they are picked up by their parents.

Based on students' needs and interests, activities can be organized in the form of club activities or using school facilities (library, playground, multi-purpose room...) to facilitate students' play and entertainment; club activities outside of official school hours need to be approved by competent authorities.

What is the "2-7-35" teaching method for primary education in Vietnam?​ (Image from the Internet)

What are regulations on teaching Foreign Language 1 at primary levels in Vietnam?

Based on subsection 3, Section 1, Part B of Official Dispatch 3898/BGDDT-GDTH in 2024:

*Organizing teaching of Foreign Language 1 and Information Technology according to the primary school General Education Program

- For grades 1 and 2: continue implementing the elective English program ensuring the requirements stipulated in the General Education Program.

For other foreign languages like German, Korean, Russian, Japanese, French, and Chinese, based on the conditions of the educational institution and the needs of students and parents, the school should proactively implement elective teaching in grades 1 and 2 and select teaching materials as per Ministry of Education and Training regulations.

When implementing elective Foreign Language 1 teaching in grades 1 and 2, ensure connectivity with the compulsory foreign language subject from grade 3.

The teaching time should suit the initial familiarization form, avoiding overloading students; assessments should focus on regular support rather than using evaluation results for grade promotion.

The elective learning of Foreign Language 1 in grades 1 and 2 must be reflected in the school's education plan according to regulations.

- For grades 3, 4, and 5: implement measures to organize compulsory Foreign Language 1 teaching; choose from available Foreign Language 1 subjects which have sufficient conditions for implementation based on the school's capabilities and student and parent needs, ensuring connectivity and compliance with the program and Ministry of Education and Training guidelines.

- Implement the use of the English learning material system on computers and online at the primary school level according to Plan No. 160/KH-BGDDT ensuring quality, practicality, and suitability with local conditions.

- Encourage educational institutions to engage private investment in teaching foreign languages to increase learning time; teach foreign languages through themes in Math and Science; teach some subjects in foreign languages.

Enhance the organization of teaching staff and students to learn foreign languages through television, media, and other suitable learning resources.

Promote foreign language practice through activities such as reading stories, experiential activities, creating an English-speaking environment outside the classroom, playgrounds, and student exchanges as directed by the Ministry of Education and Training.

How to strengthen innovation in educational management at primary schools in Vietnam?

Based on Section 4, Part B of Official Dispatch 3898/BGDDT-GDTH in 2024:

- Continue to implement innovation in management within primary educational institutions as prescribed, focusing on effectively carrying out the following:

+ Enhance the use of information technology in organizing and managing specialized activities in primary schools; input, utilize, and uniformly exploit sector-wide data on schools, classes, students, teachers, national standard schools, and other management and reporting information.

+ Continue to streamline and simplify documents and records in schools.

+ Manage and use reference publications as per regulations, strictly handling misuse of educational positions by teachers and educational management staff to coerce or promote students or their parents to purchase reference books.

- Strengthen the management of implementing overseas educational links using integrated educational programs reviewed, approved, and licensed by the Ministry of Education and Training.

Prevent educational institutions from implementing overseas educational links without meeting the required conditions.

- Enhance inspection and guidance on implementing educational and training policies and laws, focusing on checking the implementation of the primary school General Education Program; selection and management of textbooks and reference books; management of teaching activities.

Management of private primary schools, educational institutions with foreign elements, integrated educational programs, foreign education programs, and programs taught in foreign languages; mandatory educational content for Vietnamese students in private educational institutions with foreign investments.