"Teachers Focus Only on Classes"... Busan Education Office Introduces AI Assistant

[Financial News] The Busan Education Office is embarking on a major effort to improve work processes so that teachers can focus on teaching and guiding students. All teachers will be provided with an 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assistant', and the office will actively respond to educational activity violations occurring in the educational field by expanding legal support. 
The Busan Education Office announced on the 14th that Superintendent Kim Seok-jun, during the recent re-election process, pledged to substantially reduce the administrative workload of teachers and implement major policies to ensure that all educators can focus solely on their educational activities.
First, the city education office will provide all teachers with an 'AI Assistant' starting in the second half of the year to reduce repetitive tasks, thereby increasing the sense of workload reduction.
The AI Assistant significantly reduces the burden of repetitive and simple tasks by summarizing various manuals, searching for work procedures, generating document drafts such as plans, and organizing work schedules.
The office will fully expand the teaching administration dedicated team to reduce teachers' workloads and strengthen the school autonomy project selection system that guarantees school autonomy. 
The teaching administration dedicated team is a policy that assigns professional personnel to schools to handle teachers' administrative tasks, allowing them to focus on teaching and guiding students. The school autonomy project selection system is a system that allows schools to autonomously select necessary projects and efficiently manage budgets. 
The office plans to strongly respond to educational activity violations occurring in the educational field by reorganizing practical measures.
When educational activity violations occur, the office will expand legal support to enable immediate legal consultation and litigation support, operate a one-stop support team to strengthen initial response and support for violations, respond legally at the education office level to malicious complaints, and strengthen responses to investigations by judicial authorities and civil and criminal lawsuits regarding false child abuse reports.
The office will also expand support for teacher protection insurance. The coverage of teacher protection insurance will be expanded to provide 2 million won per person for medical expenses and 1.5 million won for psychological counseling expenses even if the teacher protection committee is not convened, starting this year. Additionally, 500,000 won per case will be provided for legal representative fees when appearing as a witness or proxy in court, and up to 1 million won per item will be provided for property damage recovery costs due to educational activity violations.
The office plans to distribute a 'School Complaint Response Manual' to schools and prepare a plan to reorganize the complaint response system centered on school principals. The office will provide consulting and materials for complaint response to school principals and actively consider criminal charges beyond administrative measures for repetitive and intentional complaints. Furthermore, to prevent teacher rights violations, the office will actively promote communication and parent education to improve parental awareness and protect educational activities.
Finally, the office will fully support reducing the burden on teachers leading field trips and managing safety tasks.
In the first supplementary budget in June, the office allocated over 950 million won to support the deployment of safety personnel for field trips in all schools and expand one-on-one consulting with teachers who have extensive field trip experience to conduct customized consulting for all schools that wish to participate, assisting with overall tasks from the planning stage.
Superintendent Kim stated, “Creating a school environment where teachers can immerse themselves in teaching and guiding students is the top priority of the education office,” and added, “We will continue to actively reflect the opinions of the school field and pursue policies that support teachers to lead the correct growth of students.”


bsk730@fnnews.com Kwon Byung-seok Reporter