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A kindergarten teacher plays with children at No 1 Primary School in Hai Phong City's Hong Bang District . Poorly paid kindergarten teachers are having to fork out for teaching aids because schools lack the necessary funds to properly equip classrooms. – VNS Photo Ngoc Mieng |
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Binh said her school day started at about 6.30am and officially ends at 6pm.
"Then I make teaching materials in the evening – time I should be spending with my family," she said.
She said she often has to ask her husband and her children for help so that she can get the work done faster.
Depending on the subject, Binh said she makes paper flowers, animals and models of houses, trains and airplanes.
She said each year a teacher has to make dozens of classroom props, which are rarely re-used.
However, she said it was essential to use teaching aids in the classroom.
"Our lessons will only be successful if we make them fun and interesting."
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Meanwhile, Nguyen Thi Hang, who teaches at the Sunrise Kindergarten in Thanh Xuan District, said her husband was angry that she had to spend so much time on school.
"My husband isn't at all happy when I have to spend my evenings making teaching aids instead of taking care of our small daughter," she said.
However, Hang said it was not unreasonable to expect teachers to make their own props and that every term kindergartens awarded prizes to the most creative teachers. But she said teachers should not be expected to have to spend their own money on materials.
"By making teaching aids we demonstrate our love for the job and the children," she said.
She also said that pupils preferred home-made props to those sold in shops.
Hoang Hong Thuy, Lang Thuong Kindergarten's principal, said she would gladly reimburse teachers the cost of making classroom props if she had the money.
"We need more support from the
In the meantime, she advised teachers to only make simple inexpensive props.
"We need simple and colourful toys which will save teachers time, money and energy," she said.
Pham Ngoc Phuong, deputy director of the Department of School Materials and Equipment at the
He added that from next year the
The following year, he said the
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