iPLAY helps primary students have necessary skills

Vietnam is changing rapidly. To reach their future potential, primary learners need abreadth of skills, including cognitive, social, emotional, physical and creative skills. To transform the knowledge-focused education system into an education system that equips learners with 21st century skills, the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is rolling out a new, competency-based curriculum.

iPLAY project, which will be carried out by VVOB (Integrating Play-based Learning Activities among Young learners) supports MOET to achieve the objectives of the new curriculum by integrating Learning through Play (LtP) pedagogies into its in-service primary teacher professional development (TPD) system.  

The project will develop pedagogical materials for teachers to learn how to embed playful learning activities in their teaching of the new curriculum, and for school leaders and district education officials to create an enabling environment for LtP. In combination with 5 large-scale in-service trainings and school-based TPD, it will develop teachers’ attitudes, knowledge and skills to incorporate LtP-pedagogies in the classroom.

Applying a 3-step scaling strategy in Vietnam, iPLAY will reach 14,695 schools and more than 150,000 primary teachers in the country by 2023. The project also estimates that it will reach 3 million parents by 2024.

VVOB - education for development is an international non-profit with over 35 years of experience in sustainably improving education systems. Through capacity development, VVOB provides support to ministries of education in Africa, Asia and South America to improve (initial) professional development of teachers and school leaders in early childhood, primary, general secondary, and technical and vocational education./.