Learning Together Fund

The Power of Shared Learning

As one of only two UN international schools in the world, UNIS Hanoi has undertaken significant commitment to support education and local teachers in Vietnam over the past two decades. Our Kindergarten team hosts an immersive programme for local teachers stretching over several weeks which is supported by our Teaching Assistants and has transformed Early Years education in Hanoi.

This commitment has led to ad hoc conferences to allow for sharing, collaboration and professional growth and since 2020, when UNIS Hanoi established the Learning Together Fund, opportunities are being intentionally planned to extend the work more broadly and create a programme of professional sharing and collaboration with local education partners. 

In a short period of two years since its start date, the Learning Together Fund has provided professional development opportunities for 460 educators from 155 local schools through two of our annual conferences, the Vietnam Tech Conference and Learning Together Conference.

Sen Nguyen, a teacher from 20/10 Kindergarten shared, “UNIS Hanoi offered us a wealth of resources. I was equipped with new skill sets to better accompany my students in their learning, especially when COVID happened and online teaching and learning was new to all of us.”

Lien Le, one of the 37 teachers at Mai Dich Kindergarten who participated in both occasions, was delighted to be part of it. “The conference programmes were rich and diverse. Thanks to UNIS Hanoi’s Learning Together Fund, I gained access to modern education, and learned new approaches towards teaching and appraising my students. Thank you UNIS Hanoi for sharing your knowledge with us, creating opportunities for us to connect with each other”. Inspired by the spirit of the Learning Together Fund, Lien continues to share her knowledge with teachers from other local schools in Hanoi.

This is just the beginning of a long and exciting journey. The Learning Together Fund will continue its mission to support UNIS Hanoi’s Vision of our “learning community as an inspirational role model for a better world”. 

To support the Vision of our “learning community as an inspirational role model for a better world”, UNIS Hanoi has undertaken significant commitment to support and partner professional development in Vietnam. 

For more than two decades UNIS Hanoi has trained Hanoi Kindergarten teachers through our Early Childhood Education Renovation Programme (ECERP). The programme was an early success story in UNIS Hanoi’s outreach to local educators which has grown to now include:

• Vietnam Tech Conference - Supporting teachers with the use of technology for education. An annual event in partnership with Saigon South International School. In 2020 the online format reached more than 450 local teachers to support distance learning for local schools. 

• Learning Together - Our inaugural conference for 100+ local teachers in 2019 delivered by UNIS Teacher Assistant leaders exclusively in Vietnamese.

Our Learning Together Fund is new and will be used to extend our Professional Development effectively to support education and teachers in Vietnam.

To support this programme or find out more, please contact our Director of Advancement, Emma Silva: doa@unishanoi.org 

The UNIS Hanoi Learning Together Fund supports Professional Development outreach and collaboration with local education partners.
The UNIS Hanoi Learning Together Fund supports programmes which:
1- Augment existing and create new Professional Development Programmes for our local public school partners
2- Leverage UNIS Hanoi’s internal Professional Development programmes to extend their reach where appropriate to local public school partners (subsidised registration, translation etc).

The Learning Together approval guidelines are aligned to those for the School Professional Development Fund:
A. It is strongly encouraged that PD is undertaken in teams - rather than by individuals.
B. Applications should be able to demonstrate a strong link to one or more of the school’s Annual Action Plan goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, with a clear rationale on the proposed impact on student learning and community outreach.
C. Applications must be received on a realistic timeframe in order to organise an event or for registration (if subsidy is part of the proposal).
D. Applications will be reviewed by members of the Learning Leadership Team (LLT) and approval is by the Head of School with a recommendation from the LLT.
E. Applications must demonstrate relevance for the intended participants, including translation and support or follow up when appropriate. Strategies for sustainability and extension of the Professional Development in the context of the local educators are highly valued.

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