Techville Education (CEO Lee Hyeong-se) announced on the 13th that it launched 'SDG Teachers' with the non-profit organization SDG Youth (Chairman Kim Joo-yong) at Newton Academy in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 1st.
SDGEUS is a non-profit organization launched in 2019 and is carrying out various projects domestically and internationally to continue sustainable development and peace around the world.
'SDG Teachers' is a voluntary SDG teacher research group that aims to spread the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in public education, and is comprised of 26 elementary, middle, and high school teachers from 7 regions. The teaching materials and content required for SDGs classes are supported through 'Teacher Mall (teaching materials class platform)' and 'Samdongne (teacher knowledge sharing platform)' operated by Techville Education.
SDG Teachers was launched as teachers’ interest in and need for effective use of the newly introduced ‘school autonomous time’ in the 2022 revised curriculum grew. School autonomous time is a class that secures some hours of subjects and creative experiential activities other than music, art, and physical education according to the conditions of the region and school and the needs of the students, and opens and operates new subjects or activities outside of the subjects presented in the national curriculum.
Starting this year, according to the revised curriculum, autonomous school time will be mandatory, and teachers are encouraged to teach ▲global citizenship education ▲climate change ▲sustainable development, etc. through classes designed directly by teachers rather than textbooks during autonomous school time.
In the future, SDG Teachers will play a role in spreading the SDGs in public education and, together with Techville Education and SDG Youth, will ▲produce SDGs teaching materials ▲develop regional SDGs discovery programs ▲plan overseas training programs, etc., and plan to support Korean students to acquire global leadership.
Professor Taek-soo Kim of Kyunghee Cyber University, who serves as the president of SDG Teachers, said, “I hope that through the nationwide SDG Teachers teacher research group, autonomous school hours in South Korea will become established in line with international standards,” and added, “I look forward to the day when South Korea’s SDGs education becomes a global role model and is announced at the UN.”
Lee Hyeong-se, CEO of Techville Education, said, “SDG Teachers is the first step toward establishing a realistic plan to achieve the international joint task of SDGs in the operation of domestic elementary, middle, and high school curricula,” and “We will do our best to achieve the sustainable development goals through close cooperation with SDG Youth and SDG Teachers.”
Meanwhile, Techville Education, which celebrates its 24th anniversary this year, has set the slogan as 'A leading digital education company opening up the future' and announced that it will advance its main brand, Teacherville, into a 'teacher-tailored digital education platform' based on AI-based personalized services.
In addition, the company plans to accelerate its digital education business to support teachers and students through the integrated edutech marketplace 'Cheddars' and its subsidiary 'Joyful School Co., Ltd.'
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