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The problem and the aim of the study: Since the 2020-2021 school year, the reformed general education program has been put into practice, focusing on the inclusive evelopment of students’ competencies and qualities. The reformed general education program has also opened opportunities and posed challenges to teachers and administrators in general and professional group leaders in particular, at schools, requiring them to renovate not only their methods and forms of teaching, but also organization methods as well as to pay much attention to students’ daily learning activities. In other words, professional group leaders are compulsory to meet the requirements of both expertise - profession and leadership and management skills to play their own “dual” role. The theoretical aspects about professional group leaders at primary schools (position, role, functions and duties of them at primary schools, features of pedagogical practice - management) and requirements for competences and qualities of professional group leaders at primary schools, etc., however, have not been put into exhaustive and methodological investigations. Research methods The method of document analysis and synthesis has been adopted for analyzing and synthesizing documents associated with professional group leaders at primary schools and fostering of the same. The interview method has been employed to further delve into the issues about the current situation of fostering professional group leaders at primary schools according to competency-based approach. The method of educational experience summarization has been used to collect practical information on the team of professional group leaders at primary schools and their experience. The testing method has got involved to both examine and instruct the team of professional group leaders according to their competency-based approach in some primary schools. Locations of the experiment: Primary schools in Vinh city, Thai Hoa town, Dien Chau district, Tan Ky district (Nghe An province), Soc Son district (Hanoi city) and Nong Cong district (ThanhHoa province). In semester 2 of the 2018-2019 school year: Prequalification survey and implementation of the first phase.In semester 1 of 2019-2020 school year: Implementation of the second phase.Subject sample of the experiment: 217 professional group leaders serving as subject samples were enrolled, including 105 and 112 for experimental and control groups, respectively. Conclusion: Professional Group Leaders serve to fulfill directly the requirements for objectives, contents and methods of innovation in general education. Additionally, they act as “bridges” to assist the principals in directing professional operations and other activities in schools, and assume responsibilities for the teaching quality of teachers and the learning quality of students in classes on their part. The pilot fostering of professional group leaders using competency-based approach (based on the proposed competency framework) produced the positive outcomes to gain the success in improving the quality and professional qualifications of professional group leaders.