LOCAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE TRAINING OF GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS MEET STEM EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Abstract

One of the core contents of general education comprehensive renovation is renovating the educational program in the direction of reducing theory and increasing practice and experience. With strengths in practice and experience, STEM education plays a signihcant role in realizing this goal. However, to implement STEM education, general education teachers need to understand the nature of this method and have the necessary capacity. This poses a requirement for general education teacher training institutions in Vietnam, including local universities, with the mission of training human resources to serve local characteristics, to be one step ahead. Based on an overview of secondary data and actual investigation, the study provides an overview of STEM education and the requirements set to meet the ability to train STEM teachers, analyzes the current state of local universities and offer solutions to improve the general education teachers training to meet the requirements of STEM education.