Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education's 'Online Mentoring Model' Recognized as an Excellent Case in Government Innovation in Education Sector

Leading the Nation in Supporting Edutech-Enabled Classes Amid the COVID-19 Situation

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education's case of the 'Remote Education System in Daegu' was selected as one of the top 10 excellent cases at the '2020 Government Innovation Excellent Cases Competition in the Education Sector' hosted by the Ministry of Education. These top 10 excellent cases will again have their rankings decided through public participation under the leadership of the Ministry of Education by the 27th.

According to Daegu City on the 23rd, the 'Remote Education System in Daegu' is a student-tailored remote class support policy aimed at reducing learning gaps for students and supporting smooth teaching activities for teachers amid the COVID-19 situation.

The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education was the first nationwide to support classes utilizing Edu-Tech, taking steps to improve classroom instruction and stabilize remote classes. They established wireless apps in all classrooms (86.7%, the highest nationwide), designated schools as Edu-Tech utilization education model schools, and supported teacher research clubs, demonstrating swift action.

In the unprecedented remote class situation, to provide high-quality education that anyone can easily access equally, they secured about 900 sessions of excellent educational content through cooperation with private companies and distributed them to schools and homes. They also built an online joint curriculum and a YouTube foreign language learning channel (Global Studio), and published a casebook of 'Occasional Remote Classes' to expand various online and offline project learning cases and collaboration cases to frontline schools.

In particular, the 'Edu-Tech Utilization Online Mentoring' project, operated for the first time nationwide with university students participating to support vulnerable students, has attracted attention as a benchmarking case for other metropolitan and provincial offices of education and is being expanded nationwide beyond Daegu.

Superintendent Kang Eun-hee said, "This is the fruit created by all members of the Daegu education family who worked hard to improve classroom instruction and ensure the normal operation of the curriculum despite the difficult situation caused by COVID-19, which we faced earlier than any other region," and pledged, "We will lead new normal education through customized online and offline education support so that differences in home environments do not lead to educational disparities."

Meanwhile, the '2020 Government Innovation Excellent Cases in Education Sector' competition is being held until the 27th by selecting three excellent cases among the 10 cases chosen by the Ministry of Education through the public participation website 'Gwanghwamun 1st Street.'

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