Standards for general education school principals in Vietnam

Standards for general education school principals in Vietnam (Source: Internet)

1. Standards for general education school principals in Vietnam

According to Chapter II of Regulations promulgated together with Circular 14/2018/TT-BGDDT (amended in Circular 29/2021/TT-BGDDT) stipulating standards for standard assessment of principals of general education institutions as follows: :

1.1. Professional qualities

A Principal must demonstrate exemplary professional ethics and innovative ideas in the leadership and administration of the school; have the capacities to develop his/her professional and administrative skills.

- Criterion 1. Professional ethics

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must strictly comply with the regulations on teacher’s ethics; direct the strict compliance with regulations on ethical conducts of his/her school’s teachers;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must direct detection and prompt rectification of any manifestation of violations against ethical standards committed by teachers, staff members and students; proactively and creatively formulate rules and regulations on the ethical conducts of school teachers;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must have positive influences upon general education school administrators through organizing moral education activities taking place within his/her school.

- Criterion 2. Innovative thoughts in school leadership and administration

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must have innovative thoughts in school leadership and administration in order to develop all students’ qualities and capabilities;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must spread his/her innovative thoughts to every member in the school;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must have positive influences upon general education school administrators in terms of his/her innovative thoughts in school leadership and administration.

- Criterion 3. Capabilities of developing professional and administrative skills

+ GOOD level: The principal must be innovative and creative in applying training and educational forms, methods and selecting training and educational contents as well as in promoting his/her professional and administrative skills;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of guiding and supporting general education school administrators to develop their personal professional and administrative skills in order to meet education reform requirements.

1.2. School administration

A Principal must be capable of leading and administering school activities in order to serve the needs for development of students' qualities and capabilities and ensure that his/her school is in line with the diverse learning styles, demands, preference and readiness of specific students.

- Criterion 4. Supervision of formulation of school development plans

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must undertake formulation of plans and provide guidance on implementation, oversee and assess implementation of school development plans; direct professional groups, teachers and staff members to work out plans for implementation of their assigned duties in accordance with regulations in force;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be innovative and creative in formulating plans and providing guidance on implementation, overseeing and assessing implementation of school development plans and plans of professional groups, teachers and staff members;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must guide and support general education school administrators to formulate plans, and provide guidance on implementation, supervision and assessment of implementation of school development plans.

- Criterion 5. Administration of teaching and educational activities.

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must direct formulation of teaching and educational plans of the school, and organize teaching and educational activities; reform teaching and educational methodologies; assess learning and training outcomes of students, subject to the requirements for development of qualities and capabilities of students of general education programs;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of innovating to ensure the effective administration of teaching and educational activities; ensuring that teachers use teaching and educational methodologies corresponding to various learning styles, needs, preference and readiness of specific students, and learning and training outcomes of students are improved;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for administration of the school’s teaching and educational activities.

- Criterion 6. School’s personnel management

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principle must be capable of directing the development of the job placement scheme; take the initiative in recruiting staff according to applicable regulations; utilize teachers and staff members by taking into account their professional and administrative skills; direct the formulation and supervise the implementation of regular training and educational plans to develop professional capabilities of teachers, staff members, and administrative competencies of administrators and personnel on the track to holding a Principal or Vice Principal position in accordance with applicable regulations;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must utilize teachers and personnel by taking into account their professional and administrative skills so as to ensure the organizational structure is streamlined and effective; assess capabilities of the school’s staff, stimulate and regularly organize training and career development courses for teachers, training courses for development of administrative capabilities for school administrators and the staff on the track to holding a Principal or Vice Principal position in an efficient manner;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must provide general education school administrators with instructions and support for the school’s personnel management.

- Criterion 7. Organizational and administrative management

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising of the implementation of specific regulations on organizational and administrative issues of the school; directing assignment of tasks and cooperation between professional groups, office groups and other divisions in implementation of these assigned tasks in accordance with regulations in force;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of building the streamlined and efficient organizational structure and machinery; authorizing and delegating powers to the school’s divisions and staff members to perform assigned tasks in an effective manner;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of involving his/her staff in computerizing all organizational and administrative activities in the school; providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for the school’s organizational and administrative management activities.

- Criterion 8. School’s financial management

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of internal spending rules, budget estimation, collection of revenues, use of expenditures, preparation of financial statements, financial inspection and financial disclosure in the school;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must effectively use financial resources so as to improve the quality of all-round education programs;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of mobilizing legitimate financial resources according to applicable regulations in order to improve the quality of all-round education programs; providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for the school’s financial management activities.

- Criterion 9. Management of training and educational facilities, equipment and technologies

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of the school's regulations on management of training and educational facilities, equipment and technologies of the school; supervising formulation and implementation of plans for purchase, stocktaking, maintenance and repair of training and educational facilities and equipment according to regulations in force;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of exploiting and effectively use training and educational facilities, equipment and technologies available in the school;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of mobilizing necessary resources to increase the number of training and educational facilities, equipment and technologies in order to improve the quality of all-round education programs; providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for administration of training and educational facilities, equipment and technologies in the school.

- Criterion 10. Management of the school’s educational quality

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of plans for internal assessment of the school’s educational quality in accordance with regulations in force;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of formulating and supervising the implementation of plans for advancement of the educational quality and correction of weaknesses based on the school's internal assessment results;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of plans for sustainable improvement of the educational quality; providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for management of the school's educational management.

1.3. Building of the educational environment

A Principal must build an educational environment which is safe, sound, friendly and democratic, and is protected from school violence.

- Criterion 11. Building of the school culture

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of internal rules and principles of cultural and behavioral ethics in the school according to regulations in force;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must succeed in introducing exemplary persons who strictly comply with rules and principles of cultural and behavioral ethics; promptly detecting, preventing and imposing disciplinary actions for violations against rules and principles of cultural and behavioral ethics within the school;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of creating a sound and friendly cultural environment for his/her school, and providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for building of the school’s cultural environment.

- Criterion 12. Implementation of the school’s grassroots democracy

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of his/her school’s grassroots democracy in accordance with regulations in force;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must stimulate every school member to get involved in the implementation of the school's grassroots democracy; protect individuals who give their public opinions; detect, prevent and sanction any violation against the school's grassroots democracy;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of creating a democratic environment and providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for their implementation of the school’s grassroots democracy.

- Criterion 13. Building of a safe educational environment, prevention and control of school violence

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of his/her school’s rules and regulations on a safe school, prevention and control of school violence;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must stimulate every school member to get involved in building a safe school, preventing and controlling school violence; detect, prevent and imposing disciplinary actions for any violation against the school's rules and regulations and law soft regarding a safe school, prevention and control of school violence;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of creating a model of a school which is safe and is protected from school violence and providing general education school administrators with instructions and support for building of a safe school, prevention and control of school violence.

1.4. Development of the relationship between the school, family and society

A Principal must organize activities aimed at developing the relationship between the school, family and society in training and education of moral standards and way of living for students, mobilizing and utilizing resources for school development.

- Criterion 14. Cooperation between the school, family and society in carrying out teaching activities

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of organizing provision of information about educational programs and plans of his/her school to students' parents or guardians and other related parties;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must cooperate with students' parents or guardians and other related parties in implementing educational programs and plans of the school; ensuring transparency and disclosure of information about the results of implementation of these plans and programs;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of promptly responding to feedbacks of students' parents or guardians and other related parties on implementation of educational programs and plans of his/her school.

- Criterion 15. Cooperation between the school, family and society in carrying out student’s moral and lifestyle education programs

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must provide information about rules and principles of cultural and behavioral ethics in the school for students' parents or guardians and other related parties; receive information about the student’s moral behaviors and way of living from the family and society;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must cooperate with students' parents or guardians and other related parties in implementing moral and lifestyle education programs;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of promptly dealing with feedbacks of students' parents or guardians and other related parties on moral and lifestyle education programs.

- Criterion 16. Cooperation between the school, family and society in mobilizing and utilizing resources for school development

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of directing his/her staff to provide students' parents or guardians and other related parties with full and timely information about actual conditions of and demands for resources used for school development;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must cooperate with students' parents or guardians and other related parties in mobilizing and utilizing school development resources in accordance with regulations and soft law in force;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of making right use of, and ensuring transparency, disclosure and efficiency of, school development resources; promptly responding to feedbacks of students' parents or guardians and other related parties on mobilization and utilization of school development resources.

1.5. Foreign language and information technology usage

A Principal must have a good command of foreign languages (English is preferred) and apply information technology advances in school administration activities.

- Criterion 17. Foreign language usage

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of communicating in English in the daily context (English is preferred);

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of directing the formulation and supervising the implementation of plans for development of foreign language communicative competence (English is preferred) for his/her school’s teachers, staff members and students;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must master a foreign language (English is preferred); create a favorable environment to develop foreign language proficiency (English is preferred) for his/her school’s teachers, staff members and students.

- Criterion 18. Information technology application

+ SATISFACTORY level: a Principal must be capable of using a few of common information technology tools in school administration;

+ GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of using school administration software;

+ VERY GOOD level: a Principal must be capable of creating a favorable environment to apply information technology in teaching, learning and school administration activities.

2. Procedures for and cycle of the assessment results based on the Principal standards in Vietnam

2.1. Procedures for the assessment results based on the Principal standards in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 10 of Regulation promulgated together with Circular 14/2018/TT-BGDDT, the procedures for the assessment results based on the Principal standards are as follows:

- The Principal carries out self-assessment according to the Principal standards;

- The school collects opinions of the school’s teachers and staff members on the Principal according to the Principal standards;

- The Head of the direct management entity evaluates and notifies the results of the Principal's assessment according to the Principal standards on the basis of the Principal's self-assessment results, the opinions of the teachers, the staff members and the Principal’s performances in the reality through authentic and appropriate evidences.

2.2. Cycle of the assessment results based on the Principal standards in Vietnam

According to Clause 1, Article 11 of the Regulation promulgated together with Circular 14/2018/TT-BGDDT, the standard evaluation cycle for principals of general education institutions is as follows:

- The Principal shall carry out self-assessment once a year at the end of an academic year;

- The direct management entity shall carry out the assessment of the Principal under its management twice a year at the end of an academic year. In special cases, that entity may decide to shorten the interval between assessments.

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