An Min-seok Visualizes 'Teacher Administrative Work ZERO'...4 Pilot Education Support Offices Selected

The Gyeonggi Province Office of Education (Superintendent An Min-seok) has selected the nation's first ‘Teacher Administrative Work ZERO Pilot Education Support Offices’ and is taking full-fledged action to create schools where teachers can focus on educational activities.

On August 28, the Gyeonggi Province Office of Education and the four pilot education support offices (Ansan Education Support Office, Yangpyeong Education Support Office, Pyeongtaek Education Support Office, and Pocheon Education Support Office) held a memorandum of understanding ceremony for ‘Teacher Administrative Work ZERO’ at the South Building of the Gyeonggi Province Office of Education.

At this event, the determination to implement the elimination of teacher administrative work was officially announced, and the commitment of education support offices to actively work so that teachers can focus solely on educational activities was expressed.

This agreement is characterized by moving beyond the limitations of existing simple workload reduction or work distribution adjustments and establishing a ‘Teacher Administrative Work ZERO’ model led by education support offices.

The pilot education support offices will analyze regional characteristics to establish their own plans for eliminating teacher administrative work, and will directly discover and analyze school operations to promote substantive improvements.

To this end, the plan is to introduce new systems such as △work restructuring △simplification △automation △administrative teacher system to dramatically reduce the administrative work burden perceived by teachers, and to build a support system that enables schools to focus on educational activities.

Verified achievements and practical models from the four pilot education support offices will be discovered, standardized, and rapidly disseminated to 21 education support offices, so that all 25 education support offices will operate according to their own plans reflecting regional conditions and school field demands, with plans to establish ‘Teacher Administrative Work ZERO’ at an early stage.

Gyeonggi Province Superintendent of Education An Min-seok urged, “Based on the provincial office of education's fundamental principles and direction, I hope that each regional education support office superintendent will faithfully perform their role as a field expert,” and added, “Based on the leading operations of the four pilot education support offices, I hope that all education support offices will be able to actively promote ‘Teacher Administrative Work ZERO’ tailored to their regional characteristics.”