Strengthening Our Children's 'Basic Academic Skills'! ... Gyeongnam Office of Education, Two-Day School Principals Training

Gyeongnam Office of Education held a training session for 260 middle school principals on ensuring basic academic skills.

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] The Gyeongnam Office of Education will conduct a two-day training session for principals on ensuring basic academic skills starting from the 20th.

The training, held for 260 middle school principals in the province, will be divided into eastern and western regions.

The provincial Office of Education organized this training to strengthen the learning support system and emphasize school accountability ahead of the Ministry of Education’s comprehensive plan for ensuring basic academic skills, scheduled to be announced at the end of this month.

The comprehensive plan for ensuring basic academic skills is a plan that must be established every five years according to the Basic Academic Skills Guarantee Act, which has been in effect since March of this year.

The provincial Office of Education plans to create detailed implementation plans based on the Ministry of Education’s announcement at the end of this month.

On the first day of training, Professor Shin Jong-ho from Seoul National University gave a special lecture titled “The Power to Grow All Students, Basic Academic Skills.”

In his keynote speech, Professor Shin introduced the educational philosophy regarding the necessity of guaranteeing basic academic skills and literacy instruction.

Following this, the session provided guidance on excellent cases of operating Dodream Schools and Nuri Classrooms, as well as directions for operating the basic academic skills responsibility system at individual schools.

Park Jin-hee, principal of Masan Yangdeok Girls’ Middle School, shared program operation cases under the theme “Raising Academic Achievement, Reducing Stress,” while Park Joo-hwan, principal of Tongyeong Chungmu Girls’ Middle School, introduced cases linking inside and outside the school under the theme “Dodream School that Touches Hearts and Cultivates Dreams.”

The training also included an explanatory session on the customized academic achievement self-assessment, developed and introduced this year under the Ministry of Education’s supervision.

According to the provincial Office of Education, the computer-based customized academic achievement self-assessment allows schools that wish to participate to do so autonomously at their desired time, and results can be received within one week after participation.

It diagnoses the knowledge, competencies, skills, and attitudes expected to be acquired by students through the curriculum and provides customized information.

It also supports holistic growth by providing evaluation results on students’ cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics.

The provincial Office of Education guides schools to participate autonomously according to their conditions and supports schools that wish to have multimedia question student earphones and other equipment.

Lee Jeong-sook, director of secondary education, said, “Basic academic skills are an essential prerequisite for our children to fully live social lives and a responsibility that the state must guarantee. We will actively strive to strengthen Gyeongnam’s safety net for basic academic skills.”