A training session was jointly delivery by Hanoi University of Science and Technology and the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training on July 4, 2020. The event target high school educators and was attended by 50 individuals.
The event was organized in the context of broader initiatives of the 
Ministry of Education and Training towards modernizing educational practices. More specifically, since academic year 2020, Vietnam experiments with a new textbook program, in which training and learning methods are also updated. One of the basic directions of educational innovation is to move from an academic education, away from reality, to an education that focuses on forming action capacity and promoting proactivity and creativity of learners.
The important orientation in innovating teaching methods in general and teaching methods in primary schools in particular is promoting activeness, self-reliance and creativity, developing action capacity, collaborative capacity of students.
The Ministry of Education and Training has organized many specialized training sessions in high schools to train teachers on new teaching and learning methods. In this specific session, Hanoi University of Science and Technology integrated the concept problem based learning and educational content on building instructor capacity towards deploying it in practice. The session further included content on situated learning and on combining a variety of teaching methods.
The event was presented by Dr. Ta Ngoc Tri, Deputy Director of Primary Education Department, Ministry of Education and Training.
