Jeong Seok-ung, Jeonnam Superintendent of Education, Mobilizes Full Administrative Power for Unprecedented 'April School Opening'

Emergency Care, Online Lectures, and Full Efforts on 'Learning Loss and Life Guidance'

Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education has taken measures to prepare follow-up plans as an unprecedented situation occurred with the school opening postponed again to the 6th of next month. (Photo by Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Jun-kyung] As the Ministry of Education has once again postponed the nationwide school reopening to the 6th of next month, an unprecedented situation, the Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education has begun preparing follow-up measures.

According to the Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education on the 17th, as the unprecedented situation of school closures lasting more than a month has occurred, the Provincial Office of Education and 22 education support offices have established a COVID-19 countermeasures headquarters, and each school has mobilized all administrative efforts centered on the principal to minimize learning loss and guide student life.

The Provincial Office of Education is minimizing class loss through online lectures, and each school's homeroom teachers have opened and operated online class rooms, using phone calls and SNS to check on students' status more than twice a day.

Additionally, they assigned preview assignments by grade and supported basic academic skills while presenting reading-based assignments to turn the closure period into an opportunity for students to improve their reading and discussion abilities.

Textbooks for the new school year, which could not be distributed due to the postponement, will be distributed face-to-face by the 20th, along with assignment presentation and life counseling. From the 23rd, the proportion of teachers working on-site will be increased from the existing 30% to one-third, and the minimum number of working teachers will be increased from two to three, strengthening teacher attendance standards.

Emergency care classrooms will also continue to operate until before school reopening after the 4th demand survey, with additional support for lunch expenses. To guide student life, an emergency contact network will be established to actively advise students to refrain from visiting multi-use facilities (PC rooms, karaoke rooms, arcades, etc.) and to comply with hygiene rules.

In particular, in preparation for school reopening, the stock status of quarantine supplies such as masks and hand sanitizers will be checked frequently to secure sufficient quantities, and additional disinfection will be conducted by requesting professional disinfection companies.

Superintendent Jang Seok-woong appealed through a letter, saying, “Teachers in Jeonnam are doing their best to protect students’ health and right to learn even in this crisis situation,” and “For these efforts to bear fruit, the active participation and cooperation of all educational families is urgently requested.”

He added, “Please join the various online home study sites guided by the school and meet your homeroom teacher daily to do your best in learning,” and “We will continuously communicate with parents and students and do our best in online learning and life guidance. Since this is a national crisis, please also ensure thorough attendance management.”

He continued, “Although we are currently going through difficult and challenging times in this educational crisis equivalent to a national emergency, if all educational families unite their strength and wisdom and make their best efforts, this crisis will soon be overcome,” and “The experiences gained in overcoming this crisis together will be a precious foundation for blossoming the future of innovative Jeonnam education, so please continue to trust and support Jeonnam education until the end.”

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