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Japan To Trim Excess Classroom Hours

By on July 31, 2023

Japan’s education ministry is planning to ask public elementary and junior high schools with class hours significantly above state standards to free up teachers’ workload starting in 2024.

Some schools have more staff assisting teachers in routine tasks such as printing handouts and answering phone calls, and, in other cases, the private-sector staff are replacing teachers in overseeing extra-curricular activities.

As a result, overworked teachers has led to long classroom hours.

A blanket inspection of actual lesson hours will be spelled out in a set of emergency work style reform measures for teachers to be presented by the Central Council for Education, the ministry’s advisory panel, in August.

The emergency proposals will precede a comprehensive package of measures to be compiled by the council next spring.

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