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In order to keep a sustainable competitiveness needed for a knowledge based society and the national growth, nowadays the importance of human resources and people's competence are being emphasized in school settings. Teachers tend to be regarded as one of the most important agents for education, largely responsible for in helping all children acquire the increasingly complex knowledge and various skills that they need to navigate in a real world. But the excessive burden concerning administrative matters has prevented most of teachers from having the educational accountability done properly. So educational policy makers have developed high agendas searching for some possible solutions to deal with critical issues of reducing teachers' burden of administrative tasks and improving teaching skills. In this paper, we conducted a qualitative study of three schools to which The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(MEST) Models of Reducing Teachers' Administrative Tasks were applied in 2010. Using a qualitative method mainly drawing on data from a series of interviews with teaching staff members including 6 head teachers and a chief administrative officer, major factors hindering teachers' professional development were identified; the excessive volume of official documents, ambiguous educational policy directions, and multifaceted teachers' work were pinpointed. For a concluding note, four major ideas that need to be implemented not only to reduce the teacher's burden but also to improve the quality of teaching activities were suggested; namely, the establishment of the national professional standards for teachers, the use of administrative assistants, the formation of a special team for administration work, and the reinforcement of professional roles in educational office focusing on school support.

한국어

본 연구는 교육과학기술부가 2010년 지정ㆍ운영한 경기도 소재 3개 교원업무경감 시범학교를 중심으로 교원행정업무부담의 원인과 운영모형의 문제점을 분석하여 대안적인 업무경감 발전방안을 제안하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 초ㆍ중ㆍ고 시범학교에 재직하고 있는 부장교사 6인, 담임ㆍ비담임교사 6인, 행정실장 1인을 심층 면담하여 단위학교의 행정업무 가중요인(공문의 중복성과 비명료성, 교육지원청의 실적위주 관행, 학생지도의 난점, 교원업무의 특수성 등)과 학교업무효율화 운영모형의 학교급별 특징 등을 확인하였고, 이를 기초로 교원업무 경감을 위한 미래적 개선방안(행정보조 인력증원, 교무업무전담팀 운영모형 매뉴얼 제시, 교육지원청의 현장지원 역할 강화, 국가수준의 교원직무수행기준 제정 등)을 제안하였다.