Statistics on Professional Groups at Trung Van High School

2.2.1. Statistics on professional groups at Trung Van High School

Table 2.11 below shows that: Trung Van High School, Nam Tu Liem District - Hanoi City has 8 professional groups. The structure of professional groups at the school is mostly separate professional groups, only some subjects have a small number of teachers, so the professional groups are established by combining subjects with the same field. Most of the heads of professional groups are long-time teachers with a lot of experience in teaching, enthusiastic in their work, and are the core professional part of the school.

Version 2. . Statistics of professional groups of Trung Van High School, Nam Tu Liem District, school year 206 - 2017

School year

(Source: Summary of losses from Trung Van High School's consolidated financial statements).

2.2.2. Current status of professional group activities in high schools

Through surveys and interviews with team leaders, professional team leaders, and teachers at Trung Van High School, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi City, about the organization of professional activities in schools, we found that professional teams in schools have the following main types of basic activities:

- Implement a synchronous teaching plan according to the program distribution and extracurricular activities to educate students in ethics.

- Organize pedagogical activities, observe lessons, visit classes, demonstrate lectures, lecture conferences, discuss and unify the objectives and requirements of each lesson and chapter; innovate teaching methods, test and evaluate, use teaching aids, guide students in doing experiments...

- Organize for teachers to study and discuss on topics: New points, unreasonable points in the content of new textbooks, use and maximize the effectiveness of using teaching equipment, innovate the way of testing and evaluating students, innovate teaching methods towards promoting students' active learning.

- Teacher training through professional group activities.

- Manage the work of team members, evaluate the performance of tasks and teaching results of teachers.

- Manage student assessment and evaluation.

* Comments on the performance of professional organizations

- The activities of professional groups at the school were inspected and evaluated by the Department of Education and the school's Board of Directors and were assessed at a fairly good level compared to other schools in the cluster.

- The professional group leader plans the group's general activities every month, organizes thematic activities, teaches, observes classes, and checks implementation.

Implement teaching plans, prepare lessons for teachers and focus on improving teachers' skills through observing and gaining experience.

- The professional group operates based on the professional activity plan, the school's annual task implementation plan and the criteria under the direction of the school's Board of Directors and the plan of the superior.

- Although the facilities and teaching equipment of Trung Van High School in Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi City have been solidly invested, they are not yet modern, especially the system of subject classrooms and experimental practice equipment is not guaranteed; the laboratory equipment staff is not qualified and is lacking in quantity.

- Most of the practice laboratories are quite adequate in quantity but not up to standard in quality.

- A different subject but with a small number of teachers, so they have to work in combined professional groups (History - Geography - Civic Education Group, Information Technology - Technology - Biology Group, Physical Education - National Defense and Security Group...) so there are many difficulties in organizing separate professional activities.

- In organizing and implementing activities, most young teachers have little experience in researching new points in content, new textbook programs, innovating teaching methods, and using teaching equipment, and are still confused... Therefore, the professional groups implementing their plans and the plans of the school board have not achieved high results.

* Comments

* Advantages: The heads of professional groups make great efforts in managing the general activities of the professional group in a stable state, have plans to deploy professional tasks to teachers, are enthusiastic and have many contributions to teachers in the professional field to well implement the school's plan.

*Limitations: The activities of professional groups are not synchronized in terms of professional activity content, the time for professional activities is limited, the form of organizing professional activities is still "poor" in terms of content, and the collective intelligence has not been fully mobilized in planning and implementing the group's plan.

2.3. Current status of professional group management at Trung Van High School.

Through the actual survey and consultation with the Board of Directors of Trung Van High School on the management of professional groups. It can be seen that the group leaders have focused on 06 main and main management activities:

- Manage professional team activity plan.

- Manage the implementation of the teaching program of the professional group

- Manage the implementation of teaching discipline of teachers in professional groups

- Manage the implementation of innovative teaching methods of professional groups.

- Manage teacher training of professional team.

- Manage the inspection and evaluation of professional team activities.

In order to propose appropriate solutions to strengthen the management of professional group activities of the group leaders of Trung Van High School, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi City, we conducted a survey on the management measures of professional group activities of 08 group leaders in the school by interviewing with questionnaires, observing, analyzing, and synthesizing inspection records on the management of professional group activities of educational management levels.

Total survey subjects: 72 people. Including: group leaders, deputy group leaders: 03 people; teachers of Trung Van High School: 69 teachers (including 8 professional group leaders). The interview form asked for opinions on the necessity, implementation level, and implementation results of the group leaders' management measures.

2.3.1. Current status of professional group activity plan management

* Measures to build a professional organization's action plan

This activity is carried out at the beginning of the school year, and can be developed directly by the group leader or authorized to be developed by the group leaders for their groups, then the group leader summarizes it.

. The development of the group's activity plans must be based on the school's activity plan and must be discussed and agreed upon by the teachers in the group in the meetings at the beginning of the school year. To study this work, we used a survey form for the subjects at Trung Van High School, Nam Tu Liem District and obtained the results as shown in Table 2.13.

Version 2.2. Results of the virtual survey on the construction of the action plan of the professional group at Trung Van High School - Nam Tu Liem District - Hanoi City

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The virtual result of that stcot: At the beginning of the school year, all TTCMs develop their group's activity plan. Through the survey in Table 2.12, it can be seen that the development of the activity plan of the professional groups is complete, meets the work well, and is well evaluated by the Board of Directors, TT+TP.CM and teachers (BGD: 66.7%, TT+TP.CM: 75%, GV: 77.0%). Although the rate is not high, some opinions evaluate the development of the plan as normal, just for show, showing that some professional group leaders do not attach importance to the development of the group's professional activity plan. This shows us that some group leaders do not pay attention to the planning of their group's activities at the beginning of the year. In fact, according to the assessment of a deputy group leader, there are also TTCMs that do not do this job well.