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School Work Style Reform Dashboard

Table of Contents

  1. What is School Work Style Reform?
    1.1 Efforts in and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
    1.2 Three categories of work of schools and teachers
  2. State of action in three categories of work of schools and teachers
    2.1 National and Regional Initiatives in
    2.2 Status of Initiatives by Prefecture
    2.3 Efforts by Municipal Boards of Education
  3. Status of Efforts to Reduce Working Hours at Schools, etc.
  4. Examples of Initiatives to Promote Work Style Reform in Schools
  5. Points to consider

1. What is work style reform in schools?

1.1 Efforts in Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Initiatives

In order to improve the quality of education, it is important for the national government, boards of education and schools to cooperate in creating an environment in which teachers can devote themselves to something that only teachers can do.

In Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, along with showing the "three classifications of work of schools and teachers," which sorted out the work that had been carried out by schools and teachers, we have been promoting the optimization of work and the review of the division of roles based on it. In addition, we have conducted a survey to understand the progress of work-style reform nationwide and have published the results.

In this section, the status of efforts by each board of education is disclosed regarding the progress of such school work style reforms.

1.2 Three categories of work for schools and teachers

In Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the work of schools and teachers is organized into the following three.

  • Work that should be undertaken by organizations other than schools
  • Work in which people other than teachers should actively participate
  • Although it is a job for teachers, it should be promoted to reduce the burden.

Please refer to the following documents for details.

2. Status of initiatives in the three categories of work of schools and teachers

2.1 National and Regional Initiatives in National and Regional Initiatives

You can check the status of efforts on a nationwide or prefecture-by-prefecture basis. For details on each item, please check Defining Data.

2.2 Status of Initiatives by Measures taken by prefectures

You can check the status of each prefecture's efforts.

2.3 Efforts by Measures taken by municipal boards of education

You can check the status of efforts by each municipal board of education in each prefecture.

3. Status of initiatives to reduce school hours

The following shows the status of efforts to improve the working conditions of teachers, such as whether the Board of Education has established a policy for work improvement and whether it has published the hours of attendance at school (*).
*Time spent at work, not just at school, but including extracurricular club activities, training, and business trips

4. Examples of initiatives to promote work style reform at schools

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has published a collection of examples of work style reforms in schools.
In the case studies, we have introduced many examples that are easy for any school to work on. We have also published the " Work Style Reform Checklist (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) (PDF format) ," which can be used for considering and reviewing further work improvements.

Points to consider

Data:

The various data used in the dashboard are taken from the following survey results.

These data are put together and published together as structured data for dashboards.

We plan to update the various dashboard numbers on a regular basis.

Defining Data

See below for a definition of data.

True or false information

For information about whether the information in this dashboard is true or false, see True or False: Dashboard on Work Style Reform in Schools .

Contact Information

Work Style Reform in Schools and the Results of the Survey on Work Style Reform

Work Style Reform Promotion Office, Educational Personnel Policy Division, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Elementary and Secondary Education Bureau
Phone: 03 6734 3704
Email: ko-mu _ atmark _ mext. go. jp
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