Bringing informatics into the official subject: Every place in every scene

After the program to bring Internet to schools, the Ministry of Education and Training continues the policy of informing (TH) into an official subject at high schools from the school year 2006 - 2007. Although this is a correct and worthwhile policy. welcome but the implementation has many obstacles, especially in the provinces with many difficulties.

Reduce from 3 to 1.5 periods / week

Depending on the development of IT in each locality, IT training ground is also different. In big cities, schools do not have to face the difficulties of facilities, even the computer room is equipped to serve the teaching. For example, Go Vap High School (Ho Chi Minh City), the entire computer room is networked and utilized by strengthening foreign language classes, practicing TH, and eliminating TH for teachers (teachers) on the occasion. Summer (drafting documents, electronic lesson plans .) At Bui Thi Xuan High School, Ho Chi Minh City, since 1998, the school has put the subject into pilot. Currently the school has 3 practice rooms with 110 networked computers. The curriculum developed by the school is based on the curriculum of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City. 3 lessons per week, including 2 practice periods, 1 theory period. However, according to Mr. Nguyen Van Khanh, head of the Department of Secondary Education, in the coming school year, when TH becomes an official subject, the program of the Drafting Department is different. Each week only 1.5 theory, the whole semester only . 4 practice periods!

Students during practice hours ( Source: SGGP ) Mr. Khanh also added: " The new program is very good (grade 10 learns basic concepts about computers, 11th grade learning Pascal and 12th grade learning about the foundation). However, if it applies to Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi or some other developed cities of our country, it is not very reasonable because the students' TH level is relatively high compared to the rural schools. Therefore, the Ministry of Education and Training assigns the Department to set up the curriculum based on the Ministry's framework? "

In the same view with Mr. Khanh, Mr. Luu Van Hung, a specialist of the Secondary Education Department, Hanoi Education and Training Department expressed: " Although the introduction of TH into mass education must cover a wide area but the organization is now. Incredibly, it restrains the demand for learning of a part of students, the Ministry of Education and Training can draft the program by module and is open, there will be many modules such as spreadsheets, drafting, programming. . and allows the selection of flexible modules for each school, each class, each semester '.

Teachers are struggling

According to the regulations of the Ministry, the teachers of the vocational schools are those who have graduated from specialized universities, not need to have a pedagogy, but not all schools can fulfill this requirement. Teacher Khanh (Bui Thi Xuan, Ho Chi Minh City) emphasized: " Knowledge is only a part, pedagogical profession is equally important. Therefore, the teachers of Bui Thi Xuan High School, despite meeting the requirements The Ministry is a graduate of a university major in information, but it is still obliged to attend short-term pedagogical courses to ensure effective teaching . 'In Yen Bai, according to the needs of teaching mass education during the year from 2006 to 2007, the province needs 39 teachers, if it is balanced according to the number of existing teachers, it is possible to have enough teachers to teach TH but there are 25/39 teachers. Therefore, if the school year 2006-2007, the number of teachers transferred to teaching Tin, the schools lack teachers of other subjects, mainly Math and Physics.

Need to socialize

For rural, mountainous, deep-lying and remote areas, the lack of facilities is understandable. For example, Yen Bai province, 25 high schools with nearly 8,000 students but only 11 rooms (of which only 6 rooms have from 26-31 machines; the remaining 5 rooms have 8-13 machines; Low and old configuration, almost unusable). In order to equip enough computers to ensure the teaching of mass education in grade 10, the province needs 25 computer rooms, each with 26 computers with a total investment of VND 6.29 billion. This is a small number for a poor province like Yen Bai. Binh Dinh province estimates that the number of computers needed for training from now to 2010 is over 1,000 sets, of which in 2006 alone, the amount needed to invest is about VND 2.5 billion. Even in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, many suburban schools are not eligible to buy computers. Meanwhile, urban schools are worried that there is no . room to place the device. Mr. Luu Van Hung, a specialist of the Secondary Education Department, Hanoi Department of Education and Training expressed: " The computer is not afraid of missing but worrying about the lack of rooms. Now every school has a function room, a subject room, One more computer room, I don't know where to place it when the inner school is very small in size, maybe the first year is not difficult because each school only needs 1 computer room, but it will have to be next year increased to 2, 3 new rooms to ensure the program ".

Is it possible to have a mechanism of socialization right from equipped facilities? It is known that at present, the City Education Department. Ha Long (Quang Ninh) is cooperating with a TH company in the model of computer investment company and ensuring technical, housing and teachers' schools. Student proceeds will be used to pay for teachers, guards, machine depreciation and electricity. After deducting all depreciation, the computer room belongs to the school. Or as the model at Nguyen Gia Thieu High School (Hanoi). The school called for voluntary contributions from parents (some contributed only a few tens of thousands of VND, but also parents contributed up to 1000 USD), lack of many schools will compensate. So far, the school has a spacious computer room for students' learning. Each computer has the words "this is the contribution of the parents of the students" both to acknowledge the contribution of parents, and for the students to consciously preserve.

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