Cho Hee-yeon "Restoring the Learning Middle Layer... Assigning Basic Academic Skills Cooperative Teachers to All Elementary and Middle Schools"

Operation of 'Raenseon Yagak' with University and Middle School Students
Selection of 50 AI Leading Schools and University Tuition Support
300,000 KRW Admission Preparation Fund for 1st Year Middle and High School Students
Expansion of Eco-Friendly Free Meals in All Schools

Cho Hee-yeon, Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, delivers a New Year's address via video at the 2021 opening ceremony held at the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 4th.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will assign basic academic skills cooperation teachers to all public elementary schools and public and private middle schools to reduce educational disparities and restore the 'middle learning group.'

On the morning of the 5th, Seoul Superintendent of Education Cho Hee-yeon held an online New Year's press conference and announced this year's major education office plans containing these details.

This year's plan includes 215 major tasks under five policy directions: ▲ Innovative education preparing for the future ▲ Responsible education unlocking everyone's potential ▲ Democratic citizenship education for peace and coexistence ▲ Safe and pleasant educational environment ▲ Participatory and communicative educational autonomy.

Basic academic skills cooperation instructors will be assigned to all classes of 1st and 2nd grades in public elementary schools and 1st grade in middle schools. The cooperation instructors will collaborate with homeroom (subject) teachers for 2 hours per week in Korean for 1st grade elementary, 2 hours per week in math for 2nd grade elementary, and 2 hours per week each in math and English for 1st grade middle school. Through this, the three-stage learning safety net system connecting classrooms, schools, and outside schools will be further strengthened.

An integrated remote learning platform will be established, and a 'Lan Line Night School' where university students and middle school students participate together will be operated using real-time interactive video tools.

Fifty elementary, middle, and high schools will be operated as AI education leading schools, and two additional high schools focusing on AI convergence curriculum will be designated, increasing the total to seven schools. To foster AI education experts, a master's program linked with graduate schools of education will be operated, and 50% of tuition fees will be supported up to 1.5 million won.

For first-year middle and high school freshmen, 300,000 won per person will be provided as entrance preparation funds. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education will invest a total of 14.4 billion won in the 'Education Welfare Priority Support Project' for schools with many students from low-income families. Additionally, eco-friendly free meals will be expanded to all schools within Seoul, including elementary, middle, high, special, and various schools. Furthermore, seven ecological transition education research schools, ecological classes (clubs), and rural study programs by semester (grade) will be newly operated.

Superintendent Cho said, "Over the past six and a half years, as an educational administrator, I have earnestly and intensely contemplated the essence of schools, and after experiencing the crisis of schools last year, I have thought about it more deeply," adding, "We will accelerate education preparing for the future."

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