KOREAN

Educational policy

「Basic Planning of Education for Gyeonggi Province」 establishes the Education of Gyeonggi Provincial’s policie's and projects, and acts as guidance business units enterprise propelled by city and provincial education offices, direct agencies, and support from the office of education.

City and provincial education offices, direct agencies, and support from the office of education and schools of various levels follow the 「Basic Planning of Education of Gyeonggi Province」 and consider each agency’s characteristics and regional condition and form and creatively operate performance plans towards realizing a student and field centric educational overhaul.

We will not give up on a single child and realize an education of responsibility.
We will make schools where children can be happy through school innovation.
We will reinforce humanistic education and civic education for the upstanding growth of the students.
We will support public education to lessen the worry and concern of parents.

We will establish educational authority to enable teachers to teach with passion and dignity.

Teachers are experts who achieve education based on educational philosophy and idea.
Only when the expertize and the autonomy of the educational experts are ensured the fundamental of education consisting of human interaction can be achieved.

We will resolve educational divides and help students grow in a safe environment.

Schools should ensure equal access to education, process and results. In addition, schools should create a condition of education that students can go through for learning activities in a safe environment.

We will invigorate a Town Educational Community where schools and local communities can come together.

School should not be isolated from society. We will build a Town Educational Community as a space where parents, residents, civic groups, and local government agencies can form cooperation for education and participate together and make decisions together.

We will be the Office of Education serving the school field.

The role of the Office of Education is to make policy, administrative and financial support to make the school devoted to student education. Therefore we will move the starting point of the policy to the students and schools, and advance policies that schools need, thus boldly reducing the administrative burden of the schools.

Policy 1

Happy School

A happy school is a school of learning where students are able to find their meaning of life and value on their own and gain core competencies.
- A school that assures student’s learning options, therefore, upholding the study.
- A school that seeks dreams and hopes by enjoying culture and art and with various experiences.
- A school where the student can find meaning and value of life on their own.
- A school that nurtures novel ideas and creative challenges based on core skills.
We will endeavor as follow to achieve the happy school.
- Student-centered curriculum
- Dream enabling education
Through this we will keep the following promises.
- “We will not abandon a single child and realize an education of responsibility.”
- “We will make happy schools for students through school innovation.”

Student-centered curriculum

- Normalization of curriculum
  - Restructure of curriculum
  - Reinforcement of study-centered class
  - Result-centered evaluation
  - Normalization of kindergarten curriculum
  - Substantiality of special education curriculum
- Diversification of curriculum
  - Operation of four season’s vacation
  - Management of free-learning semester
  - Reinforcement of general high school education capacity
  - Reinforcement of Student’s study options
- Characterization of curriculum
  - Substantiality of creative field work
  - Revitalization of foreign language education
  - Substantiality of the science and gifted education
  - Reinforcement of vocational education based on NCS

Dream developing education

- Expansion of career exploration opportunity
  - Revitalization of career·higher education
  - Substantiality of specialized high school & Meister High School’s career education
  - Reinforcement of regular high school career education
  - Management of after-school activities
- Reinforcement of cultural artistic education
  - Revitalization of cultural artistic education in school
  - Expansion of cultural artistic experience outside school
  - Revitalization of reading·writing·liberal humanity education
- Revitalization of school sport
  - Substantiality of physical education curriculum
  - Revitalization of school sports club
  - Normalization of school athletic club management
- Operation of Gyeonggi Dream School that students flock to
  - Operation of Gyeonggi Dream School developed by student
  - Operation of student flourishing Gyeonggi Dream School

Policy 2

Democratic School

A democratic school means every member of the school as common owners of the school discuss current problems with freedom and formulate and concretize ways of practice, therefore taking responsibility for the achieved result and growing together.
- A school that participates together with autonomy and responsibility regarding educational activity.
- A school that practices a democratic life which respects mutual rights and collaborates.
- A school that grows global citizen who know the value of life and respects peace.
We will endeavor as follows to achieve democratic schools.
- Democratic school system reformation
- Revitalization of democratic civic education
Through this, we will keep the following promise
- “We will not abandon a single child and realize an education of responsibility.”
- “We will reinforce humanistic education and civic education for the upstanding growth of students.”
- “We will establish an educational authority to enable teachers to teach with passion and dignity.”

Reformation of democratic school system

- Revitalization of student’s self-government activity
  - Assurance of class·student council’s autonomy and independence
  - Revitalization of local student council management
  - Operation of student participation of policy determination
- Construction of democratic school operating system
  - Set up of school member’s cooperative relationship
  - Reinforcement of teacher’s autonomy and responsibility
  - Revitalization of civic communication
- Establishment of educational authority
  - Protection of teacher’s educational activity
  - Extension of educational authority culture

Revitalization of civic education

- Reinforcement of civic education
  - Curriculum corresponding to civic education
  - Devotion to global citizen education
  - Reinforcement of humanistic education and integrity in education
- Substantiality of peace education
  - Reinforcement of education of life-enhancing sensitivity
  - Revitalization of peaceful unification education
  - Settlement of restorative life education
- Guarantee of student rights
  - Protection of student rights
  - Improvement of student rights

Policy 3

Safe School

A safe school is a school where students are equal in studying in a comfortable healthy environment and gains the capacity to fix their life’s problems on their own.
- A school where every student can live pleasantly and healthily
- A school where learning is equal and not a single student falls behind in education
- A school where students learn how to cope with disaster and crisis and develop the capacity to solve one’s own life problems.
We will endeavor as follows to achieve safe schools.
- Formation of learning safety net
- Safe studying environment
Through this we will keep the following promises.
- “We will not abandon a single child and realize an education of responsibility.”
- “We will resolve the educational divide and support students’ growth in a safe environment.”
- “We will support public education that lessens the worry and burden of the parents.”

Formation of learning safety net

- Guarantee of each student’s learning rights
  - Guarantee of basic academic skills
  - Support of students facing risk of suspension of studies
  - Support of alternative education
- Resolution of educational divide
  - Customized education for students of multicultural families students in school
  - Reinforcement for North Korean refugee students’ education support
  - Reinforcement of special education related service
  - Substantiality of educational welfare policy

Safe learning environment

- Ensuring a healthy life for students
  - Healthy lifestyle habits
  - 4 addiction prevention systems
  - Happy school lunch operation
  - Reinforce school violence prevention education
  - Child abuse prevention and child protection
  - Reinforce School Counseling
- Enhance student safety education
  - Expand experience-based safety trainings
  - Strengthening of safe capability of staff
- Enhance student safety education
  - Establishment of crisis emergency response system
  - Establishment of safety net
  - Strengthen school safety facilities

Policy 4

Diffusion of Innovative Education

Diffusion of innovative education refers to a mature and innovative education that guides the direction of our future education beyond innovative schools where everyone participates and activates education communities that coordinates with its local communities.
- Increase the degree of completion of innovative education and create a culture of self-determinism and autonomy for all schools
- Educational structure normalization to allow passion and wisdom of teachers to be fully demonstrated
- Strengthen the community network and activate local education communities
- Suggest development of future innovative education policy and alternatives for our educational development
We aim for the following for diffusion of innovative education.
- Strengthen innovative education
- Proliferation of regional education
Through this, we promise for the following
- We will create a happy environment for our students through school innovation.
- We will activate local education communities where schools and the local community cooperate together.

Strengthening of innovative education

- Development of future innovative education policy
  - Gyeonggi Province Curriculum Development
  - 4·16 Education system establishment
  - Establishment of future education supporting institute
  - Direct agency role strengthening
- School innovation settlement
  - Expansion of innovative school operation
  - Reinforce operation of schools sympathizing with innovation
- Gyeonggi Education training innovation
  - Training system innovation
  - Expansion of competition-type training
  - Growth training systematization
- Strengthening the innovation capacity of the education community
  - Operation of professional learning community
  - School innovation leader education
  - Strengthening expertise of education professionals
  - Diversifying staff training
  - Reinforcing school assessments

Proliferation of regional education

- Build Innovative Education Network
  - innovative education support center operation
  - educational administration council operation
  - innovative education region expansion
  - Overseas-Regional cooperation strengthening
- education community proliferation
  - expansion of a dream school that cooperates with the local region
  - Educational Volunteer Center activation
  - Parent Support Center operation
  - Cooperative operation support
- education recovery assistance
  - Educational support for healing and growth
  - Administrational and financial support for the victims
  - Memorial Business and Cooperation support

Policy 5

Educational administration innovation

Educational administration innovation refers to an educational administration which allows establishment of an autonomic management system in school and practice of supportive administration that allows the teachers to teach with passion and pride.
- Field-based policy development to support the growth of students and schools
- Student-centered environment built to allow students to focus on class, classroom, and school culture
- A personnel management system that provides opportunities to everyone and practice of administration with integrity and responsibility
We promise to do the following in effort to achieve innovation in educational administration.
- Autonomous school management
- Field-centered supportive administration
Through the above, we will make the following come true.
- We will establish educational authority to allow teachers to teach with passion and pride.
- We will become the Department of Education that supports and serves the schools.

Autonomous school management

- Improve working methods
  - Establishment of autonomous management system for schools
  - Policy-budget-evaluation virtuous circle system establishment
  - Field-oriented policy development
  - Normalization of administration
- Customized Training Support
  - Autonomous scholarship system operation
  - Improve institution evaluation method
  - Relieve environmental education gap
  - Establish advanced type training facility
  - Establish continuing education system
  - Secure integrity of private educational institutions

Field-centered supportive administration

- Capability oriented personnel system establishment
  - Employment system reformation for new teachers
  - Personnel system reformation for teachers
  - Personnel system reformation for education professionals
  - Personnel system reformation for local government employees
- Sympathizing supportive administration
  - Promote integrity policy
  - Improve civil service administration
  - Gyeonggi Province’s educational policy