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31/08/2012

The Department of Teachers and Educational Administrators (DTEA) and VVOB Vietnam jointly organized the TOT workshop at national level: Management of Life Values-Life Skills Education and Effective Communication for Secondary School Principals. Two trainings took place, one in Ho Chi Minh City (August 24-25, 2012) and one in Do Son, Hai Phong (August 28-29, 2012) for a total of 270 participants from 63 provinces.

In the recent years, education of Life values-Life skills has gained importance. School managers need to understand and know how to apply these skills effectively, to be able to convey the content to the teachers and manage the process of life values-life skills education in their school effectively.

Through contacts with the DOETs and DTEA, VVOB became aware of the need to develop materials for Lower Secondary School Principals on the Management of Life Values-Life Skills Education and Effective Communication. The manual was developed in 2011 in cooperation with the core group of 40 members from the five DOETs (Thai Nguyen, Quang Ninh, Nghe An, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai) and was piloted in in-service training to nearly 3000 school managers in lower secondary schools in those five provinces. In 2012, DTEA cooperated with VVOB Vietnam, revising and reviewing the manual, adding information so that the manual can be used for school managers at both lower secondary and upper secondary schools.

About 270 school managers, including managers from Provincial Departments of Education and Training, representatives of Divisions of Secondary Education, representatives of certain Upper Secondary Schools from 63 provinces participated in the trainings organized in the two locations – in the South and in the North of Vietnam.

As a follow-up activity, the content will be further multiplied to all the upper secondary school principals nationwide, contributing to improving the effectiveness of the education of life values and life skills in schools.

This TOT workshop at national level is not the only cooperation between DTEA and VVOB Vietnam. In 2011, four modules developed by VVOB Vietnam – Environmental Education, Problem-based learning, Learning stations, ICT 4 ATL – were reviewed by DTEA and have been put on the list of reference materials for teachers nationwide. More materials developed by VVOB are in the process of being reviewed for the reference list for in-service training for both teachers and educational managers.