Gyeonggi Office of Education Shifts Gifted Education to 'Pre-Education, Post-Selection' Method

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Northern Office

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education is changing gifted education to a 'pre-education and post-selection' method.

The Office of Education announced on the 30th that starting next year, it will introduce a 'pre-education and post-selection program' so that anyone can receive gifted education. The program will begin next year at the Goyang, Gimpo, Bucheon, Icheon, and Paju Education Support Offices and will be expanded to all affiliated gifted education centers of education support offices by 2025.

Accordingly, the education support offices starting education next year, such as Goyang, will sequentially carry out the project including ▲ gifted education comprehensive database application (December 11?22) ▲ pre-education program (January?February 2024) ▲ regular gifted program (March 2024).

Jo Young-min, head of the Convergence Education Policy Division at the Office of Education, said, "We will shift the paradigm of gifted education from a 'selection'-centered approach to an 'education'-centered approach to secure flexibility in entering gifted education," adding, "We hope to provide gifted education opportunities to many students and discover students with giftedness."

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