Educators slam teaching methodology
Reported by Huong Le
November 19, 2008
Thanhnien News (Vietnam)
Teachers have no room to be creative and students graduate without the critical thinking skills they need for the “real world,” said local educators at a roundtable discussion in Ho Chi Minh City Monday. …
The roundtable was held by Tuoi Tre newspaper, which opened a forum on the same topic two weeks ago. The paper called on readers to give their opinions on educational issues and received more than 600 responses.
At the discussion, Education Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan admitted the ministry had been slow in encouraging schools to apply innovative teaching methods. …
Hung said one of the problems was that the country’s examination system only evaluates students’ knowledge of information and not the critical thinking skills they’ll need to excel in an increasingly competitive working environment.
“Our main goal shouldn’t be to increase the number of students that pass exams or the number of doctorates we produce, it should be about producing students who know how to think and work.”
