Education

Evaluating teachers through children’s learning activities and their responses to lesson questions is a Save the Children’s initiative to improve the quality of education and to prevent the negative impact of teacher’s evaluation process in Vietnam.

Ho A Dua is the third child of a H’mong family in Lang Manh village on the top of a mountain in Van Chan district of Yen Bai province.

Like the other villagers, Ho A Dua’s parents don’t speak the popular language -Vietnamese - and they live separately from the rest of the world.  From the village to the nearest town, it takes them a day walking through a wood route then on a long zigzagging bumpy and slippery track to trade their collected /or farming items for basic goods. In most of their life time, they live on sufficient supply. Education is therefore neglected.

“It was an intervention that would bring some change in my life,” said Ms. Le Thi Thanh Hang, a primary teacher from Krong Klang primary school in Quang Tri province. She left the comforts of the city and travelled to the remote mountainous areas of Vietnam with the aim of teaching children from poor and vulnerable families of ethnic minority group.