Busan Office of Education Science Education Activation Support Group, Support for Basic Science Education

The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education will hold the ‘2023 Science Education Activation Support Group Workshop’ at 4 p.m. on the 2nd at Avani Central Busan, targeting 49 teachers from the Science Education Activation Support Group.

The ‘Science Education Activation Support Group’ is composed of 49 elementary and secondary science major teachers, established to support the activation of basic science in school sites and the spread of science education culture.

They select current issues in science education annually and develop programs to activate basic science education by school level, supporting activities in school sites.

This workshop aims to focus on improving inquiry experiment classes for academic achievement enhancement, improving basic science literacy, enhancing inquiry activities, and developing content for AI classes, and to find ways to apply these in the field.

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The workshop will be conducted through keynote lectures, discussions, and support group subcommittee meetings. The subcommittee meetings will be divided into elementary integrated subcommittee, middle school teaching-learning subcommittee, middle school inquiry experience subcommittee, and high school physics, chemistry, life science, and earth science subcommittees, conducting discussions tailored to their characteristics under the theme of improving science academic achievement.

In the future, the support group will develop various policies to improve conditions for science education and activate basic science education, and the Metropolitan Office of Education plans to reflect the support group’s field support activities and results in next year’s current issues.

Han Jong-hwan, Director of the Digital Future Education Division at the Metropolitan Office of Education, said, “Our Office of Education plans to research ways to activate basic science and support school sites through the Science Education Activation Support Group.”

He added, “We hope that the programs developed by the support group will enhance the professionalism of science teachers’ classes and help improve students’ basic science literacy.”

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