Ulsan Office of Education Ensures Learning Rights for Special Class Students... Operates Emergency Class Support Team

Ulsan Office of Education.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education has formed an emergency class support team for elementary, middle, and high schools in response to the widespread outbreak of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, and has also established a support team for special classes to provide emergency class assistance.

The Office of Education has organized a support team of 196 members, including education professionals such as elementary and secondary supervisors, dispatched teachers, and teachers on sabbatical years receiving training to enhance their expertise, to minimize class disruptions in elementary, middle, and high schools.

The special class emergency support team consists of 44 members, including 8 elementary and secondary education professionals and 36 itinerant teachers for kindergarten and elementary and secondary schools.

An itinerant teacher is responsible for providing itinerant education for special education students receiving inclusive education at general schools.

The Office of Education is expanding the operation of the Inclusive Education Support Office to strengthen support for itinerant education in general schools.

Support team teachers assist with classes when a teacher is confirmed positive or quarantined and it is difficult to resolve the issue within the school.

They provide support when substitute teachers cannot be secured through in-school teacher substitute classes, hiring of part-time instructors, school support center staffing systems, or expanded inclusive education operated as home-based classes.

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education has arranged for special classes to be temporarily integrated and operated in schools with two or more special classes when a special class teacher is confirmed positive for COVID-19 or otherwise absent, allowing other special class teachers to provide substitute instruction.

This year, the Ulsan Office of Education has expanded educational opportunities for special education students by newly establishing or expanding 19 special classes.

The Office of Education has developed an inclusive education operation plan and supports improvements to special class environments reflecting the disabilities of special education students, expansion of teaching aids and facilities, and operating expenses for special classes.

Currently, in the Ulsan area, 327 special classes are operated across 226 kindergartens, elementary, middle, and high schools.

An official from the Office of Education stated, “We have formed a support team to alleviate difficulties at schools caused by the spread of Omicron and to guarantee the learning rights of special class students, and we plan to operate it until the emergency situation ends.”

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