The Korean Times: Teachers face higher workload amid pandemic
date：2020-06-24 21:20author：小编source：The Korean Timesviews：
The Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union (KTU) called on the education authorities Monday to come up with more effective measures for its members who have faced an increased workload due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although the guidelines for COVID-19 were passed down to schools by the education ministry, teachers can easily be confused when a confirmed case is detected because they have never experienced such a situation before. It would be much clearer for teachers if the ministry made checklists for infection control work from existing cases.
Schools don't have enough staff to specifically handle virus prevention among students. What happens instead is that teachers end up handing out guidelines, checking students' temperature and making sure they keep social distancing rules in classrooms.
Teachers complain that the lack of support comes from the fact that schools are less affected by COVID-19 than other places.
In a recent regular briefing, Vice Education Minister Park Baeg-beom said no children had contracted the virus at school. In most cases, they either found out they had been infected with the virus after going to school, or they showed symptoms at school and subsequently tested positive.
The schools' infection control measures such as enforcing the wearing of masks and changing class schedules to avoid overcrowding in schools have reportedly contributed to preventing the infections.
The MOE should dispatch professional personnel who would exclusively be in charge of infection control work at schools if the pandemic persists.
Source: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/06/181_291623.html
Although the guidelines for COVID-19 were passed down to schools by the education ministry, teachers can easily be confused when a confirmed case is detected because they have never experienced such a situation before. It would be much clearer for teachers if the ministry made checklists for infection control work from existing cases.
Schools don't have enough staff to specifically handle virus prevention among students. What happens instead is that teachers end up handing out guidelines, checking students' temperature and making sure they keep social distancing rules in classrooms.
Teachers complain that the lack of support comes from the fact that schools are less affected by COVID-19 than other places.
In a recent regular briefing, Vice Education Minister Park Baeg-beom said no children had contracted the virus at school. In most cases, they either found out they had been infected with the virus after going to school, or they showed symptoms at school and subsequently tested positive.
The schools' infection control measures such as enforcing the wearing of masks and changing class schedules to avoid overcrowding in schools have reportedly contributed to preventing the infections.
The MOE should dispatch professional personnel who would exclusively be in charge of infection control work at schools if the pandemic persists.
Source: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2020/06/181_291623.html
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