Yangcheon-gu Produces Online Learning Content Featuring Village Instructors in Magic and Broadcast Dance

Online Content in Magic, Theater, Broadcast Dance, Crafts, and Gugak Available for Learning from the 13th via Yangcheon-gu Office Official YouTube

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Village instructor Eom Juhwan is conducting a magic class, looking into the camera lens instead of the bright-eyed students. The class is held not in a classroom but in a studio. Although there are no actual students present, Mr. Eom talks to the camera as if it were the students and proceeds with the lesson.

Due to the COVID-19 situation delaying school openings and social distancing limiting offline learning, Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Sooyoung) is running the 'Our Home is School' project to minimize learning gaps for students and enable various educational experiences at home.

'Our Home is School' is an online learning project where village instructors specializing in cultural and artistic practical fields in Yangcheon-gu film their lessons and upload them to YouTube, allowing elementary, middle, and high school students to access desired classes anytime.

While some education offices and local governments provide online content focused on core subjects like Korean, Math, and English, classes in culture, arts, and creative experiences are practical lessons that rely heavily on on-site interaction, student feedback, and hands-on experience, making online learning challenging.

Yangcheon-gu recruited village instructors who visit local schools to conduct the 'Our Home is School' lessons. Besides utilizing local professionals, having familiar teachers known to students conduct the classes aims to increase student engagement.

The district will first film lessons in five subjects: magic, theater, broadcast dance, crafts, and traditional Korean music (gugak), and post them on the official Yangcheon-gu YouTube channel starting from the 13th of this month.

Mayor Kim Sooyoung explained, “The essence of Yangcheon-gu’s innovative education is that wherever students are, that place becomes a school. If the village and local community cooperate and unite to fill the 1% gap that schools cannot cover, the entire village will truly become a learning space that nurtures children.”

He added, “The 'Our Home is School' project promoted by Yangcheon-gu this time will help students develop self-directed learning skills and is a proactive response to the growing importance of online platforms as communication channels.”

Since being selected as a Seoul-type innovative education district in 2016, Yangcheon-gu has been promoting various innovative education projects such as the Five Senses School Farm, career exploration programs for transitional grades, village after-school programs, and coding education. Among these, classes conducted in cooperation with village instructors in cultural, artistic, and creative experience fields provide students with fun and diverse experiences and have gained great popularity.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.