Developing qualities and capacities for students is the goal of Vietnamese education in 21st Century in accordance with the “4.0 technology era”. This article introduces some modern methods and techniques that have been studied and used effectively in the teaching for develop students’ capacities of chemistry in high schools in Buon Ho town, Dak Lak province, Vietnam, such as project teaching, contract teaching, experiential teaching, hands-on teaching, integrated teaching, teaching with mind map, teaching in team collaboration. This has raised interest among for students and has resulted in higher academic achievement than those not used the above-mentioned teaching methods. In particular, they have developed individual, professional and social competence those are language ability, creative thinking capacity, problem solving ability, computational competence; cooperation capacity, capacity to apply chemical knowledge into real-world.

competence /capacity/ ability, teaching methods, teaching techniques, chemistry competencies