Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education Holds Gwangju Education Reading and Career Policy Briefing Session

For Middle School Principals and Education Support Office Officials

The Gwangju Metropolitan Office of Education held a session to inform middle school principals and career and reading officers at education support offices about this year’s reading and career policies in Gwangju education.

On the 26th, the Gwangju Office of Education announced that it held the ‘2024 Gwangju Career and Reading Education Enhancement Plan Briefing Session.’

The briefing session held the previous day was organized to introduce new projects related to reading and career, which are being prepared with strong determination this year. Through this, they aim to realize ‘diverse competencies,’ a core area of Gwangju education.

First, various projects related to reading education will be implemented to achieve a competency-rich Gwangju embracing diversity. In particular, the ‘Dasi Chaeg-euro (Back to Books)’ project, promoted as a core initiative, is a program that encourages students’ self-directed reading activities by keeping books close at school and in daily life, making reading a habitual practice.

To this end, they plan to create a reading-friendly environment in schools through the operation of a one-school-one-reading-education program. Additionally, related projects such as activating reading, discussion, and essay classes, operating reading education support teams, and organizing reading marathons will be pursued simultaneously.

Meanwhile, the Office of Education will also promote Gwangju-style career education aimed at nurturing creative future talents. In particular, to strengthen career development competencies throughout life, emphasis will be placed on enhancing career education from the elementary school stage. Furthermore, career experience programs linked with universities and local communities will be expanded and reorganized.

To this end, they will focus on solidifying career education at each school level by conducting training courses for elementary career education experts, establishing the ‘365-Career Room’ for middle school students’ career exploration, operating field support teams for transitional career education, running the high school-university linked career experience program ‘Dream Workshop,’ and activating entrepreneurship experience education for elementary and secondary students through student entrepreneurship experience schools.

Superintendent Lee Jeong-seon said, “Not only to prepare for rapid changes in the times but also because reading is the foundation of diverse competencies and the basis of thinking skills regardless of changes in the era, through the ‘Dasi Chaeg-euro’ project, students’ reading will permeate daily life and become part of school culture. We will also do our best to enhance customized career education for students.”

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