Gyeongnam Office of Education Addresses Learning Loss Caused by COVID-19

Haeso Support Group, Supporting Students' Learning, Psychological, and Social Recovery

The Gyeongnam Office of Education's Education Deficit Resolution Support Group Council was held on the 19th at the Gyeongnam Education Training Institute.

The provincial Office of Education stated that the council was held to prevent educational deficits in learning, psychological and emotional aspects, and social skills caused by COVID-19, and to support educational recovery.

According to the provincial Office of Education, 100 elementary and secondary school teachers from the province, appointed through a public recruitment as members of the Education Deficit Resolution Support Group, attended the council.

The support group, composed of experts with experience in resolving educational deficits or basic academic skills-related work, plays roles such as collecting field opinions, discovering excellent cases, and proposing related policies.

Gyeongnam Office of Education.
Photo by Lee Seryeong

At the council, the progress and achievements of the education deficit resolution support project were shared, and this year's tasks and current status of the education deficit resolution project were reviewed.

Based on this, measures to support schools in the field were also discussed.

A special training session titled "Special Measures for Special Situations" was conducted by Yoo Jae, vice principal of Donghak Middle School in Gyeonggi and co-author of "Korea Education Trends 2023," providing time to understand the current status of educational deficits and consider school responses.

The Ministry of Education's education deficit resolution support project began in September 2021 as a comprehensive educational recovery plan to address students' deficits in learning, psychological, emotional, social skills, health, and physical fitness due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, but the project name was changed to its current name according to the 1st Basic Academic Skills Guarantee Comprehensive Plan (2023?2027).

Park Young-sun, Director of Elementary Education, said, "Although the long and difficult COVID-19 situation has ended, schools are bearing an even tougher role to resolve students' educational deficits," adding, "Going forward, the support group will carefully identify and check the difficulties faced by schools and strive to strengthen substantial, field-centered support."

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