This article presents the authors’ conception of competence, professional competence, teachers’ professional standards, and competency assessment of pedagogical students. Specifically, the authors propose a competency framework for teachers through a benchmark of 30 standards and 76 criteria as the basis for pre-service teachers’ competency assessment. | Trường Đại học Vinh Tạp chí khoa học, Tập 47, Số 1B (2018), tr. 5-15 TEACHING PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR COMPETENCY - BASED TEACHER TRAINING Bui Minh Duc, Dao Thi Viet Anh Hoang Thi Kim Huyen, Nguyen Ngoc Tu Hanoi Pedagogical University 2 Received on 01/12/2017, accepted for publication on 25/4/2018 Abstract: The internationalization of teacher training and the demand for the reform of secondary education in Vietnam after 2018 require teacher training to shift from content-based approach to competency-based approach. Pedagogical instituitions should give more importance to competence-based knowledge rather than focusing too much on theory part. In order to meet these requirements, there has been a need to study about professional competency and training pre-service teachers in the orientation of professional competency standards. This article presents the authors’ conception of competence, professional competence, teachers’ professional standards, and competency assessment of pedagogical students. Specifically, the authors propose a competency framework for teachers through a benchmark of 30 standards and 76 criteria as the basis for pre-service teachers’ competency assessment. 1. Introduction Professional competency for preservice teachers is an important task of the education sector and teacher training institutions because this is the premise for the formation of a quality teaching staff to meet the country's on-going and longterm demands and education system. During training process, develop a professional competency is at the fundamental stage to create a basic professional competency for the student before starting his / her career. Therefore, in most studies on teachers and teacher training, this is a matter of concern and a content that needs to be updated. In Vietnam, professional competency assessment of pre-service teachers has been concerned in recent years. In 2009, MOET issued the professional standards for high school teachers [0]. This .
