Advantages, Disadvantages, Opportunities and Challenges in Managing Teaching Activities at Kim Son District Vocational Education

2.5. Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and challenges in managing teaching activities at the Center for Vocational Education - Continuing Education, Kim Son District, Ninh Binh Province

2.5.1. Advantages

- The director is dedicated and experienced in organizing activities in the unit.

- The teaching discipline of teachers and the learning of students are always closely monitored, directed and inspected by the Director, considering it as the basis for improving the quality of education, creating a foundation for the stable development of the Center.

- Most of the teachers at the Center are confident in their work, enthusiastic, responsible and dedicated to teaching GDTX students.

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- The staff, teachers and employees of the Center are always united and highly agree with the policies set forth by the Director with the aim of improving the quality of education and training of high-quality human resources at the Center.

2.5.2. Disadvantages

- Management work is mainly based on experience and management capacity, which still has many shortcomings; management and direction are not strict and effective, especially in directing teaching and learning in the direction of promoting learners' initiative.

- There is still a large number of teachers who have not really tried to innovate teaching methods. Many people are still interested in teaching by lecture method, teachers read, students copy, not proactive in exploiting the experience and life experience of learners in the teaching process, and not really interested in promoting learners' positivity in class.

- There is a shortage of teachers, few experienced teachers, and the quality of teachers is not consistent, which greatly affects the implementation of innovative teaching methods to suit the students at the Center.

- The financial source of the Center is mainly contributed by students. However, most of the students of the Center are in difficult circumstances, which affects the collection of tuition fees. On the other hand, the current tuition fees set by the State for Continuing Education Centers are no longer suitable, and the revenue is not enough to cover the Center's activities.

- Most of the students' academic ability is weak and poor but they have to absorb too heavy a program; the students' attitude and motivation to study are still limited, which are major obstacles in innovating teaching methods of teachers in the Center.

2.5.3. Opportunity

- The Party and the State have had many policies to develop continuing education. Importantly, the 2019 Education Law has recognized: Continuing education is a field of study that goes hand in hand with continuing education in the national education system. In particular, the Provincial Vocational Guidance and Continuing Education Center has always received the attention of departments, branches and leaders at all levels in the province for the education and training career of the Center.

- Teaching equipment in particular and facilities in general have been given attention by the Department of Education and Training in equipping and building like high schools to serve the work of renewing programs and teaching methods.

- The socio-economic development of Ninh Binh province in general and Kim Son district in particular has created favorable conditions for investment in infrastructure.

- Teaching equipment as well as good environment for teaching at the Center.

2.5.4. Challenges

- Awareness of society, leaders at all levels and people about continuing education and the role and position of continuing education is still limited.

- The mechanisms and policies for Continuing Education Centers are insufficient, inappropriate, and inconsistent.

- In the GDTX sector, there is still the idea of "Achievement Disease", especially for older students who have incorrect motivation to study, are coping in their studies, are not self-disciplined, and have low positivity. A number of guest lecturers are not dedicated to GDTX subjects.

- The interest of the parents' association is still limited, and has not been effective in coordinating with the Center to educate students in all aspects.

- The issue of maintaining the training scale as well as the stable development of the Center is a big challenge, because in Kim Son district, the number of non-public schools is developing relatively strongly, the annual student rate does not increase, the universalization work has been completed, the competition in education is in a period of relatively strong development. This is also an issue affecting the implementation of innovation in teaching methods to improve quality, affirming the position of the Center in the education and training career.

Chapter 2 Summary

The management of teaching activities of the Center for Continuing Education and Vocational Training in Kim Son District, Ninh Binh Province currently has many shortcomings. Teaching methods have not been innovated, and teachers' professional qualifications have not been trained according to social demands. Teachers' sense of responsibility and awareness of continuing education are not yet profound.

The management of teaching activities of the Center for Continuing Education and Vocational Training of Kim Son District, Ninh Binh Province has basically implemented the objectives of general teaching management and paid attention to the specific characteristics of Continuing Education. Therefore, in the management of teaching activities of Continuing Education, the focus has not been on the management of teachers' teaching. Classroom teaching management is one aspect of management but it is the most important aspect of the management of the Continuing Education Center. This work has a direct impact on the quality of teaching and the development of the Continuing Education Center.

The research results in this chapter are practical arguments that further clarify the theoretical issues presented in chapter 1 and are also the basis for developing measures to strengthen the management of teaching and learning activities of the Vocational Education and Continuing Education Center of Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province at present.

CHAPTER 3: MEASURES TO MANAGE TEACHING ACTIVITIES AT THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION CENTER - CONTINUING EDUCATION OF KIM SON DISTRICT IN THE CONTEXT OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

3.1. Current context and principles for proposed management measures

3.1.1. Current context

The quality of teaching in schools has improved a lot, however, education in schools is still inadequate in terms of scale, especially quality and efficiency. The team of educational managers has limited capacity, has not been fully trained, so it cannot keep up with the diversity and complexity of educational activities in the process of innovation.

Innovation in school education management to improve teaching quality is necessary and urgent. The majority of teachers are enthusiastic about their profession but their quality is still weak, the working environment and conditions are still limited, teachers are trained in many types of schools and classes, so the quality is uneven. At the same time, being affected by the market mechanism, sometimes they cannot really meet the task of educational reform and the requirements of socio-economic innovation, and the requirements of industrialization and modernization of the country.

Educational administrators must realize the importance of improving the quality of teaching as a particularly important step to bring education up to the requirements of the new situation.

The Center for Continuing Education is a continuing education institution of the national education system. The main task of the center is to organize and implement educational programs that meet the needs of learners in the area, creating opportunities for everyone to study, study regularly, and learn for life.

Managing a vocational training center, especially managing teaching activities, is a difficult and complicated task, with strict requirements for managers in many aspects. It requires the Director to have skills and expertise.

must be able to put the center's activities in the right direction, turn educational goals into reality, and determine the quality and effectiveness of education.

One of the solutions to improve the quality of education is to improve the quality of education management. Vietnam's education strategy to 2020 has identified one of the breakthrough solutions as: "Innovation in education management" and "Building a team of teachers and education managers". The theme of the school years 2016-2017, 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 mentioned the issue: "Innovation in management and improvement of education quality".

3.1.2. Principles

The proposal of measures to manage teaching activities of the Vocational Education Center - Continuing Education Center of Kim Son district, Ninh Binh province must ensure the following principles:

3.1.2.1. Ensuring consistency of proposed measures

This requirement comes from the nature of the management process, which focuses on planning, directing teachers' teaching activities, students' learning activities, managing teaching activities and other activities serving teaching activities in the Center. These activities aim to create discipline, order, coordinate with educational forces inside and outside the Center, create a healthy educational environment to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the Center. To ensure the consistency of measures, it is necessary to pay attention to the influencing factors and participate in the measures of the teaching staff, facilities and equipment. Only when implementing measures synchronously can the strengths of each measure be promoted in improving the quality of teaching and learning in the Center.

3.1.2.2. Ensuring the theoretical and practical validity of proposed measures

The practicality of the measures requires finding management measures suitable to the conditions, circumstances, resources (human resources, material resources, financial resources) and environment of the Continuing Education Center on the basis of strict compliance with the regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training.

3.1.2.3. Ensuring the necessity and feasibility of proposed measures

This requirement requires that the proposed measures can be applied to the management practices of the GDTX Center manager in a convenient way, become a reality and bring high efficiency in performing the management functions of the Center manager (planning, organizing, directing, checking). To achieve this, when building measures, it is necessary to ensure the scientific nature of the management process with specific and precise steps. The measures must be implemented effectively and adjusted to be increasingly perfect.

3.2. Measures to manage teaching and learning activities at the Vocational Education Center - Continuing Education, Kim Son District, Ninh Binh Province in the Current Context

3.2.1. Develop a teaching plan suitable for the learners and specific conditions of the center.

a. Purpose of the measure

Develop a teaching plan suitable for the learners and specific conditions of the center to implement the teaching regulations issued by the Ministry of Education and Training, always strengthening and maintaining discipline in teaching.

- Strictly implement the Regulations on organization and operation of the Continuing Education Center. These are regulations on working content, regulations on professional discipline, applied in the actual unit to help teachers and staff fulfill work requirements, manage in the field of teaching and learning to effectively implement the issued general documents.

b. Contents of measures to be implemented

* Planning

At the beginning of the school year, the leaders of the Continuing Education Center planned to establish the Center's operating procedures first:

- Synthesize legal documents of the Ministry on general regulations and rules on teaching and learning (regulations on the organization and operation of the Continuing Education Center, School Charter)

learning, training objectives, teaching records, regulations on rewards, discipline, promotion, criteria...)

Filter out the parts related to teaching discipline to specify the functions, tasks and powers recorded in the document, and set out the requirements for teachers and students.

- Based on general regulations, develop the unit's own regulations with specific criteria to evaluate the competition accurately, fairly and democratically.

To make a plan, the Center's leaders must fully study the content of teaching regulations and must seriously manage teachers to implement the regulations of the industry, taking school management as the foundation, from which to build the goals of the plan.

Plan to check the implementation of regulations and teaching rules.

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The plan must also be detailed and meticulous, then the overall management will be more convenient.

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*Implement the plan

To organize the implementation of teaching discipline at the Center, first of all, the Center's leaders must organize for staff and teachers to study, exchange and discuss and draw experience from the implementation of discipline in the previous year. Existing problems, weaknesses, and unimplemented issues need to be thoroughly understood and solutions proposed. Issues that have been implemented well must be promoted and expanded, and at the same time, individual teachers and organizations that have performed well must be promptly commended and rewarded.

Bringing the content of implementing discipline into the two-good emulation movement of the Central Committee

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Based on the actual situation of each month and each stage, set out the content.

focus on each stage, each period.

For example: In September of the year, the key task is to stabilize the implementation of the Center's internal regulations.