The necessity of education reform in Vietnam has been increasingly arisen in these days. As a Vietnamese and used-to-be student, I suppose the best way to improve the Vietnamese education system is to start with the teaching staff.
The first priority to enhance teaching qualities is to increase teachers' salaries. Since teachers also have to work their ways out to make their living, and adequate payment will motivate them to devote to their career as any other professionals. Finland, with one of the education system all over the world, is an excellent example for this, where teachers are paid high enough to be respected and to deliver interesting lectures to their students.
Continuous assessment of teaching staff is also an effective method to help both teachers and students not fall behind with their studies. It is not necessary to organize formal examinations. However, continuous assessment has to be accompanied with training courses for teachers so that they can have a good grasp of how to tailor their teaching strategies to stimulate all learning styles and aid students to fully reach their potential as learners. Going through training and assessment, teachers will be more confident and effective in transmission of knowledge.
Last but not least, more extra-curricular activities should be taken into consideration with regard to the improvement of teaching staff. These activities will not only create opportunities for both teachers and students to freshen their mind to become less stressful and more creative in teaching as well as learning. Besides, they will strengthen relationship between teachers and students and increase mutual understanding of each other. In my case, I had changed my attitude to my Mathematics teacher at sixth grade. Only after our school picnic, I realized how attractive, careful, and funny my teacher was whilst I used to think of him as being a strict, inflexible and boring Mathematics freak in class.
It must be a long journey to transform Vietnamese education system into the perfect one as it is in Finland and other developed countries. However, focusing on human-being factor is undeniably a good start, because of which teaching staff should be taken seriously by both government and the whole society.
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