On August 15, the Conference on the Summary of the 2023-2024 School Year and the Deployment of Tasks for the 2024-2025 School Year for Secondary Education pointed out the achievements of Ho Chi Minh City Secondary Education. In addition, it also pointed out the limitations, causes of remaining limitations and oriented tasks for the 2024-2025 school year.

The 2024 - 2025 school year is the first year under the 2018 General Education Program.

At the Conference, Mr. Le Duy Tan - Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Secondary Education Department said that the 2024 - 2025 school year is a special school year when the General Education Program will be implemented in all grades. In particular, it is a pivotal year for the final grades of grades 9 and 12. They will be the first class to take the exam according to the 2018 General Education Program orientation.

According to Mr. Tan, based on the orientation of the 2018 General Education Program, Ho Chi Minh City Secondary Education always focuses on the most important goal of comprehensively educating students' qualities and abilities. Helping students develop self-study, understanding, and self-affirmation.

Specifically, to implement the orientation of the 2018 General Education Program, schools in the area have developed and organized the implementation of educational plans at each school. In which, the principal organizes the development of plans to implement the program of each subject, educational activities to ensure the time specified in the program and arrange teaching and learning in each semester in a reasonable and scientific manner.

Also at the Conference, Mr. Nguyen Minh Hieu - Director of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City emphasized: "The Department will try to have sample exams for grade 10 in September. The questions will be given in the spirit of how to teach, test and evaluate, to avoid overwhelming students."

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Education and Training has issued a document guiding all additional activities according to the school program and must be carried out on the voluntary basis of parents. "Schools absolutely must not allow students to participate in classes with foreign teachers even though their families do not want them to. If this situation occurs, the principal must take responsibility," Mr. Hieu directed.

Regarding the innovation of testing and assessment methods and forms, Mr. Tan shared that the Department of Education and Training of the City has had consistent and timely instructions on innovation of testing and assessment; the method of testing and assessing quality has been gradually shifted from testing knowledge to assessing the capacity and qualities of learners; measuring students' progress in the learning process and the level of meeting the requirements of subjects and educational activities, ensuring reliability, fairness and objectivity.

Education focuses on the human element

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Tan affirmed: "Although each educational institution has different conditions, we must have a competitive spirit regardless of the physical facilities. Schools with inadequate physical facilities strive to improve. Better schools share and support poorer schools. We must not only focus on physical facilities and information technology, but also on human factors."

According to Mr. Tan, developing digital schools is one of the key tasks. Actively compete to build digital schools, have proactive and creative solutions to have many schools effectively transform digitally, typical in implementing the project of 50 digital schools to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025).

According to Mr. Tan, it is necessary to improve the capacity of the management staff and teachers to improve the quality of education; focus on maintaining and improving the quality of final grade students; promote the role of the teaching staff and education management staff in some districts to improve the quality of teaching and learning to achieve the overall progress of the City.

Continue to implement digital transformation in professional activities, orienting towards smart education. Mobilize the intellectual resources and creativity of teachers in innovating content and teaching methods to promote self-study, guided learning and lifelong learning for learners.

"I hope that units facing difficulties do not feel inferior or find it difficult. With the responsibility of being ferrymen, we must be confident. If we encounter difficulties, we must improve ourselves and support each other," said Mr. Tan.

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