To overcome the aforementioned problems, the author of this paper has proposed some solutions including improving the management of OOE in high schools, building up a good team of OOE teaching and managing staff, innovating the contents and approaches of teaching OOE, and improving the school facilities for OOE by making good use of the school facilities and resources available at localities. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE 2011 Vol. 56 N . 1 pp. 93-100 OCCUPATIONAL ORIENTATION EDUCATION . IN HIGH SCHOOLS PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Ho Van Thong Dong Thap Province s Education and Training Department E-mail Abstract. Occupational orientation education OOE for high school stu- dents is a real concern of society. Education Law 2005 and several other studies have shown the important role and the position of OOE in high school curriculums. However the execution of OOE in high schools still faces different problems such as time allocated for OOE training of OOE teachers contents of the subjects and teaching methods awareness of OOE by students and teachers school facilities for OOE etc. To overcome the aforementioned problems the author of this paper has proposed some solutions including 1 improving the management of OOE in high schools 2 building up a good team of OOE teaching and managing staff 3 innovating the contents and approaches of teaching OOE and 4 improving the school facilities for OOE by making good use of the school facilities and resources available at localities. Keywords occupational orientation 1. Introduction Document of the Vietnam Communist Partys 9th Congress 2001 underscored the important role of Occupational Orientation Education OOE implementing the policy learning is accompanied by practice education goes with labour and produc- tion school education must be close to social issues. It is necessary to highly value . and the streaming of high school students preparing the teenagers for suit- able professions based on the change of economic structures of the whole country as well as in each locality 1 . As for the Education Law 2005 OOE is a part of the comprehensive high school education curricula. Actually in the current curriculum of high school edu- cation OOE is introduced from grades 9-12 with various topics for the purposes of helping students develop a good idea of and the right attitude .
