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Vietnam
On January 22nd
2016, the Department of Teachers and Educational Administrators (DTEM) of the Ministry
of Education and Training (MOET) in Vietnam launched the report of a study
about the performance evaluation of teachers, which was supported by Belgium.
The study was initiated as a result of the work done by the School Education
Quality Assurance Programme (SEQAP) on the development of a lesson observation
tool to assess effectiveness of training of teachers. The work on this tool
attracted the interest of the leadership of the Ministry because they needed to
establish a new procedure and a set of tools that can be used for independent
evaluation of teachers. For that reason, MOET requested Belgium to support
conducting a study that could link international experience in teacher
evaluation with the current practice in Vietnam and the plans for teacher
evaluation and development in the context of the ongoing education reform in
Vietnam.
The result of the study is a set of recommendations for
an improved procedure to evaluate teachers in Vietnam based on an evaluation of
the current practice and some international examples. The report includes the
following sections:
Section 1: Overview of teacher evaluation in
Vietnam
Section 2: Overview of international practices
in teacher evaluation (Singapore, UK (England), Canada (Ontario), Finland and
Belgium (Flanders))
Section 3: Recommendations for Vietnam based on
international experience
The study was conducted by Dr. Patrick Vander Weyden
(Free University of Brussels & FocusUP, currently Country Programme Manager
of VVOB in Cambodia) and Prof. Pham Van Hoan (dean at the Hanoi College of
Education).
The launching event was opened by Mr. Hoang Duc Minh, the
director of DTEM, and Mr. Geert Vansintjan, the development counselor at the
Embassy of Belgium in Hanoi. Mr. Vansintjan emphasized in his opening speech
that by supporting this study, Belgium wants to contribute to strengthening
systems that provide support to teachers, teacher development and teacher
management so the sustainable development goal of inclusive and equitable
quality education can be achieved. On the short term, he hopes that the study
will contribute to the evaluation and revision of the teacher standards that
are currently used, in response to the demands of the education reform and the
new curriculum.
The results of the study have already been taken onboard
in the formulation of the Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness Programme (ETEP), the
Government programme supported by a loan of World Bank that will address the
reform of the teacher training and development system in Vietnam.
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