Advantages and Disadvantages in Organizing Professional Group Activities in the Direction of Developing Teaching Capacity

Appropriate assessment plan, diversify assessment forms. It is necessary to determine the purpose of assessment is to help students progress.

1.3.2.6. Testing, evaluating and classifying teachers

Periodically or suddenly check and evaluate the implementation of the subject program, from which to develop plans to adjust, change and supplement educational plans to make them suitable and optimal.

Conduct teacher evaluation and classification according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training. Take teacher evaluation and testing as a way to help teachers develop teaching capacity, continuously improve their professional and technical capacity, successfully implement educational programs and achieve educational goals.

1.3.2.7. Professional training

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Organize professional development activities according to the TCM plan and the school's plan. Carry out professional self-development activities to develop the teaching capacity of individual teachers in TCM.

Implement innovation in professional training activities through activities such as: professional activities, professional training, organizing seminars, scientific research activities, extracurricular learning, seminars, etc.

1.3.3. Advantages and difficulties in organizing professional group activities towards developing teaching capacity

To develop and move forward, change is needed. Any change process has advantages and disadvantages. Innovating the organization of TCM activities in the direction of developing human resources will also encounter the following advantages and disadvantages when implemented:

- Teachers' habits with passive teaching methods. Due to the habits of some teachers such as reading - copying, lecturing endlessly, depending completely on textbooks, students develop passive habits, students only memorize and learn by rote without thinking or reflecting.

- Teachers' awareness of innovation in teaching methods is not high. Some teachers still think that in order to carry out teaching activities, they can still use traditional teaching methods without changing, because there are still students who have achieved certain results after implementing those teaching methods, but they do not see that new teaching methods will promote the teaching and learning process and help a lot in achieving educational goals in a convenient, optimal, effective way and meeting the requirements in the new situation.

- Teachers' knowledge and capacity in new teaching methods. Besides teachers who have knowledge and capacity in innovative teaching methods, there are still some teachers who have not performed this task well because they have been trained for too long, cannot keep up with changes in education, are lazy, afraid of change or even lazy.

- The knowledge that needs to be imparted is heavy compared to the time. Reality shows that the knowledge content in the educational program is still quite heavy, there is not much time for other educational activities, making it impossible for teachers to fulfill all knowledge requirements, and students cannot receive, comprehend, or master knowledge.

- Lack of facilities and teaching aids. Facilities and teaching aids are one of the basic requirements to develop teachers' teaching capacity to meet educational requirements. However, in reality, there are still many shortcomings and inadequacies that need more attention.

- Psychology of students in coping with exams. Reality shows that a part of students still have a heavy psychology of studying to cope with tests and exams. Students may only study knowledge content, even only focus on subjects for exams, and other knowledge or subjects only need to be studied enough to pass the test, enough to move up to the next grade.

- Examinations and assessments do not encourage active teaching methods. Examinations and assessments are often the final stage in teaching and learning activities and they have a negative impact on the entire process. However, examinations and assessments are still

Focusing on testing and evaluating mechanical, trivial memorization, understanding, reproduction, and application. Testing and evaluation are biased towards knowledge, neglecting skills, and not showing many other related areas, or causes, results, and attitudes of students. Therefore, active teaching methods have not been encouraged to fully promote their effectiveness.

- The living conditions and standards of teachers are still low. Basically, teachers now have food and clothing, however, compared to the development of modern economy and society, the life of teachers, the class considered as intellectuals, is always facing many difficulties and countless shortcomings. In reality, it can be seen that the salary of a teacher who has been teaching for decades can be lower than the salary of a worker in industrial zones today, even some workers who only need to graduate from high school and be 18 years old have a salary higher than teachers who have graduated for 10 years. In addition to teaching at school to cover their living expenses, many teachers have had to participate in other activities to earn extra income to be able to temporarily stabilize their lives. Therefore, some teachers have not been able to wholeheartedly develop teaching capacity to meet current educational requirements.

- Education management policies and mechanisms do not encourage teachers. Teachers focus time, effort and even money to continuously develop their own teaching capacity but there is no policy mechanism to encourage, motivate and recognize, making it difficult for teachers to develop their teaching capacity.

1.4. Managing professional group activities towards developing teaching capacity for high school teachers

1.4.1. Decentralization of management of professional group activities towards developing teaching capacity for teachers in high schools

1.4.1.1. Principal manages professional group activities

Is responsible for all educational activities of the school.

The principal assigns tasks to the Vice Principals, selects, builds, manages, and operates the TCM and NCM. The principal directly appoints the TTCM. The principal selects and builds the TTCM with full CM capacity, pedagogical skills as well as the ability to manage CM activities at the TCM. The TTCM needs to have good teaching capacity, high prestige in front of students and colleagues; have a deep understanding of teaching capacity and other areas of CM in which he/she is trained and the requirements for innovation in current subjects. The TTCM also plays the role of a core teacher in the school, needs to have communication skills, the ability to generalize, judge, and synthesize because the head of the CM group is both a teacher with

teaching duties, as well as being a manager.

1.4.1.2. Team leader manages professional team activities

The TTCM is directly responsible to the Principal for performing the TCM's tasks according to regulations, contributing to helping the school achieve its set goals.

TTCM distributes the group's resources, guides the management of capacity development activities for teachers who have good capacity development and are capable of developing capacity development for group members.

The TTCM is the person with the highest responsibility for the quality of teaching and pedagogical work of teachers within the scope of the assigned TCM.

Based on the actual situation of the staff at the TCM, the Principal can build and select the Deputy CM and CM group leaders according to the prescribed number. The Deputy CM and CM group leaders are selected from the subject groups, usually in one or several subjects, and are the main responsible for the assigned subject, and the person who assists the TCM in performing the tasks required by the Principal.

1.4.2. Content of managing professional group activities towards developing teaching capacity in high schools

1.4.2.1. Develop a plan for professional group activities towards developing teaching capacity in high schools

To develop a professional team activity plan in the direction of developing human resources, managers need to implement management measures to carry out the following activities:

- Disseminate and implement directives from superiors, develop professional plans and school year plans for the school:

Communicate guidance documents, official dispatches, and instructions from superiors in accordance with regulations. After receiving official dispatches, the Principal directly or may authorize the Vice Principal in charge of CM work to research and develop the school's professional plan and school year plan. Then deploy to the TCM and teachers. Direct the TCMs to implement teaching plans and subject objectives in accordance with CM regulations.

- Thoroughly grasp the directive documents of leaders at all levels, develop teaching plans, integrated teaching, thematic teaching...

- Require teachers to develop remedial teaching plans, plans to nurture excellent students, tutor weak students, and review for national high school exams.

- Develop a technical and economic plan, implement progress on a regular, periodic and ad hoc basis.

- Develop practice plans, teaching demonstrations, inspections, thematic reports, professional training, writing scientific research papers, and scientific research.

- Make a plan to innovate group and team activities in the direction of lesson research.

- Develop criteria and targets for the activities of TCM, teachers, and registration for emulation and rewards of teachers, TCM, and schools.

- Develop a plan to innovate goals, organizational forms, teaching methods, and assessment methods towards approaching students' competencies.

- Build KH to organize activities to create a learning environment, creative experience, exchange and learning...

* Principal's activities

- School Planning: Based on the school year tasks of the Ministry, Department and the actual situation of the school's teaching staff, students, and capacity, the Principal develops a general action plan for the school, including the "Progressive Plan" and has measures to direct and guide the implementation of the school's general plans.

- Directing and guiding the TCM to develop the activity plan of the Group and the teacher. Directing and guiding the TTCM, the group members know how to determine the goals, tasks, and propose clear and reasonable measures for each type of plan. There are two types of plans stipulated in the High School Charter [6], which are: the TCM's school year activity plan (abbreviated as the TCM Plan) and the teacher's school year activity plan (abbreviated as the Personal Plan). In addition, there are other plans such as:

+ Semester plan, monthly plan

+ CM activity plan: For example: Subject teaching plan according to the program of the Ministry of Education and Department of Education; Plan to implement the topic of innovative teaching methods; Plan for the competition for excellent teachers; Plan for class observation; plan to foster excellent students - tutor poor students...

- Approve the plan and announce it: The TCM and TTCM planning teams are responsible for sending it to the Principal for review. If it is appropriate, the Principal will approve it and the teams will proceed to implement it according to the planned plan. If there are still inappropriate contents, the TTCM teams must adjust the plan to be suitable for reality and close to the school's draft plan.

* Activities of the Professional Team Leader

- TCM plan is a draft plan for implementing activities.

of TCM in a school year, to achieve the educational goals of the organization and the school. This is the implementation plan for a specific task or job.

- The Center for Youth Development develops a plan for youth development activities in accordance with the directives and guidelines. Then, based on the capacity of the teaching staff, the ability of students to implement, and the reality of the school, it deploys and guides the team members to develop a plan for implementation.

- The CM activity plan needs to ensure knowledge and subject curriculum. When building this plan, it is necessary to see the innovation policy of the Ministry, Department and specific directions, plans, and targets, but must closely follow the capacity of teachers and the reality of the school. Each type of plan has a specific division of work for each member.

- The school year plan of TCM includes: Plan for using teaching aids, applying teaching methods; Plan for checking and evaluating teaching record management activities; Plan for innovating group and CM group activities towards lesson research; Plan for innovating goals, organizational forms, teaching methods and assessment towards developing students' capacity; Plan for teaching demonstrations and conferences; Plan for training excellent, weak and poor students; Plan for organizing extracurricular activities; Plan for improving the quality of professional CM for teachers in the group, planning to implement the program by week, month, semester, school year. There is a plan for making up for classes that are behind schedule.

- TCM builds criteria and targets for TCM activities, teachers, competition registration, and reward forms for each group member. In addition, TCM also plans to organize activities to build a learning environment, creative experiences, exchange and learning...

- Instructing teachers to make personal plans: Based on teachers' abilities and the actual situation of the school, the Center for Teaching and Learning guides teachers to make a Plan of Activities for the school year, often referred to as a personal plan, which is a draft.

Teachers' opinions on the work to be done during the school year, with specific methods, procedures, and deadlines, to achieve individual goals within the TCM goals.

+ For teachers, there are specific plans for each content and each task: Plan of activities during the school year (personal plan); Plan for class management; Plan to improve professional skills...

+ When building this plan, it is necessary to closely follow the indicators and criteria for the general plan of the school and the group, but it must be based on the capacity of the teacher and the actual situation of each class to suit each student.

- Approve personal plans: Team members develop personal plans and then submit them to the Center for Personal Development. The Center for Personal Development checks and reviews the criteria. If appropriate, the team leader signs and approves.

1.4.2.2. Organizing and implementing professional group activities towards developing teaching capacity in high schools

Based on the professional activity plan, the school year plan as well as the TCM plan. The school assigns specific and detailed tasks for each week, month, semester, and school year so that relevant departments can conduct surveys of the actual situation.

Based on surveys, summaries, reports, and statistics of each relevant department to evaluate the professional activities of TCM so that the school can promptly urge, remind, and adjust accordingly.

- Organize CM training activities for teachers to develop teaching capacity:

Organize training and CM training for teachers on teacher training periodically and regularly and guide the process of self-study and self-training to improve the quality and capacity of teachers: Improving the capacity of the teaching staff must identify self-study and self-training as the main focus. The principal launches a movement of self-study, self-training, self-research, and creativity in the group. Carry out activities to encourage and create favorable conditions for teachers to self-study, self-training, and self-training.