Lecturer Conference 2008-2009 school year

The conference took place on October 11, 2008 with the participation of lecturers from faculties and departments in the school.

The purpose of the conference is to evaluate teaching according to the training program converted to credits; clarify teaching issues that need to be focused on in the 2008-2009 school year; discuss solutions to enhance guidance, supervision, and evaluation of students' self-study process.

The conference listened to the Report of the Steering Committee on converting university training according to credits and discussed many related contents.

The 2007-2008 school year was the first year of organizing university teaching according to the converted credit-based training program with the courses QH-2006-X and QH-2007-X. However, because most of the subjects taught were general subjects, the number of training units and the number of lecturers teaching according to credits was not large. In the new school year, basically, most of the school's teaching staff directly taught according to credits.

The highlight of the teaching work last year was that most lecturers strictly implemented the requirements of teaching according to credits, including teaching according to the issued course outline, guiding students to self-study and use learning materials, enhancing testing and evaluation, actively innovating teaching and testing methods. The assessment of teaching quality was also better implemented on the basis of synchronous management of teaching content and testing and evaluation. Students were more proactive in grasping information about the subject such as what to study, how to study and how to perform learning tasks; at the same time, they were also more active in reflecting their opinions on teaching and learning.

[img class="caption" src="images/stories/2008/10/14/img_0307.jpg" border="0" alt="Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - Faculty of Philosophy" title="Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan - Faculty of Philosophy" width="240" height="160" align="left" ]

In addition, the report also mentioned the work that has not been done well in teaching in the past year. On the part of lecturers, the use of subject outlines has only stopped at the information level and has not been specified in each subject class; self-study content has not been proactively assigned to students or assigned but has not been effectively guided and monitored; assessment activities have not been effectively implemented by lecturers; the initiative of lecturers in consulting work is not high.

Regarding professional management, teaching observation to gain experience has not been adequately invested in; the progress and quality of compilation as well as the use of testing and assessment tools and subject learning materials are still limited.

On the students’ side, there is a misconception that studying by credit is easier than studying by year. Besides, students’ ability to organize their self-study time is still very weak.

Entering the 2008-2009 school year, the core tasks of teaching are:

- Continue to update and complete course outlines;
- Strengthen guidance and assessment of the learning process, especially students' self-study tasks;
- Focus on building course materials with main activities;
- Innovation in professional management of the department.

To carry out the above tasks, the school issues a support policy for lecturers who actively carry out the assigned tasks and specify these tasks in the evaluation and classification of emulation. Functional departments will focus on supporting lecturers in tasks such as: toolkits for lecturers to collect feedback from students during the teaching process; conditions for performing subject consultation tasks; digitizing unpublished learning materials; enhancing the search and dissemination of related documents to organize training, teaching methods... suitable for credit training.