Ulsan Office of Education Establishes Climate and Environmental Education Policy Task Force

Discovering Experiential Learning Sites in Collaboration with Local Environmental Education Institutions
Establishing Specialized Models and Promoting Customized Environmental Education

The Ulsan Metropolitan Office of Education (Superintendent Cheon Changsu) has established the ‘Ulsan Climate and Environmental Education Policy Task Force’ this year and will work to promote customized climate and environmental education by building cooperative relationships with the local community.

On the 12th, the Ulsan Office of Education held the first operational meeting of the policy task force in the policy meeting room.

The policy task force will be responsible for developing and coordinating climate and environmental education policies, creating teaching and learning materials, discovering experiential learning sites, and building public-private cooperation (governance) within the community.

The head of the task force is Choi Eunho, principal of Yeompo Elementary School, and a total of 13 members are participating, including 6 environmental education experts and 6 environmental teachers.

Over the next two years, the task force plans to collaborate with local environmental education institutions such as the Ulsan Climate Crisis Response Education Center and Deulkot Learning Center to discover environmental education experiential sites in Ulsan and nearby areas, and to create an ecological resource map that can be applied to school curricula at each educational level.

In addition, the task force will strengthen practical educational support by developing and distributing teaching and learning materials that reflect the characteristics of the region.

The policy task force aims to establish an integrated, ecology-centered curriculum, develop environmental education models tailored to the region, support students in strengthening their environmental competencies, and create a sustainable environmental education ecosystem in cooperation with the local community.

At the meeting, Jung Daesu, director of the Upo Ecological Education Center at the Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education, shared experiences in operating ecological and environmental education, while Kim Myoyeon, a teacher at Gyeongbuk High School, introduced examples of integrated ecological transition lessons that can be immediately applied in the classroom.

Kim Heejong, director of the Ulsan Environmental Education Center, discussed ways to cooperate in creating a regional ecological resource map for environmental education and agreed to implement this together with the task force.

An official from the Ulsan Office of Education stated, “This meeting will be an important opportunity to lay the foundation for the future of environmental education in Ulsan,” and added, “We will work together with schools and the local community to bring about real change.”

The Ulsan Office of Education has established the Climate and Environmental Education Policy Promotion Team and is taking a commemorative photo.

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