Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education Establishes Permanent Consultative Body for Five Affiliated Training Institutions

Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education held a 'Meeting of Officers in Charge of Directly Affiliated Teacher Training Institutions' for its five directly affiliated institutions. Photo by Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Jun-kyung] The Jeonnam Provincial Office of Education announced on the 23rd that it held a ‘Meeting of Persons in Charge of Teacher Training Directly Affiliated Institutions’ for five directly affiliated institutions under its jurisdiction at the Jeonnam Education Training Institute.

At this event, 15 officials from each institution, including the Jeonnam Education Training Institute, Jeonnam Education Research Information Center, Jeonnam Creative Convergence Education Center, Jeonnam International Education Center, and Jeonnam Early Childhood Education Promotion Center, gathered to discuss the direction and standards for reorganizing second half projects by institution.

In addition, it was decided to form and operate a permanent consultative body among the five training institutions that run teacher training courses centered on the Jeonnam Education Training Institute. Through this, they plan to share information on the overall training planning-operation-evaluation process and establish a close cooperation system for consulting support by each directly affiliated institution.

The first project of this permanent consultative body is to build and operate the ‘Jeonnam Teacher Training Comprehensive Platform (portal site),’ which integrates and provides teacher training information currently separately announced by each directly affiliated institution, thereby improving accessibility and convenience for teachers who are training targets.

In particular, they also decided to promote the use of remote training systems as a substitute for delivery training (group training) for major current projects.

The attendees shared policies and standards for reorganizing projects such as reduction, integration, and abolition by institution to ensure the normal operation of school curricula and reduce teacher workload amid the ongoing COVID-19 situation.

For the teacher training courses scheduled for the second half of the year, except for essential training such as qualification training or training requested by field teachers, they agreed to reduce, integrate, change (group → remote), or abolish them. Even when group training is inevitably operated, they agreed to comply with step-by-step quarantine guidelines and operate in a way that minimizes the burden on the field.

Kim Tae-moon, Director of Policy Planning, said, “In the currently dispersed training system by institution, the project performance is carried out as if competing with each other, so the training fatigue of field teachers is inevitably high. Let’s strengthen field-centered training aligned with the school’s educational clock through cooperation among institutions to enhance Jeonnam’s future educational capabilities.”

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