Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Appoints 45 New Senior Teachers

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Exterior view of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Southern Building.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Tae-hee) has established and announced the selection plan for candidates for the 2025 Senior Teacher Qualification Training.

According to the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education on the 24th, they plan to actively strive to prioritize teachers who excel in teaching and to foster a voluntary culture of teaching research among educators.

Following Superintendent Lim’s pledge, the Office resumed the selection of senior teachers starting in 2022. Accordingly, 34 newly appointed senior teachers were assigned in March 2024, bringing the total number of senior teachers supporting school teachers on site to 178.

In 2025, to select newly appointed senior teachers, a two-stage evaluation process will be conducted: the first stage includes document review and peer teacher evaluation, and the second stage involves competency assessment and in-depth interviews, with a final selection of 45 candidates planned.

The detailed number of positions is as follows: 7 for kindergarten, 16 for elementary (15 public, 1 private), 18 for secondary (15 public, 3 private), and 4 for special education (2 public, 2 private), totaling 45.

Applicants must have at least 15 years of teaching experience. In the first stage, candidates will be selected within 1.5 times the number of available positions based on combined scores from document screening and online evaluation, assessing teaching expertise, student guidance capability, educational activity achievements, and relationship-building skills (peer teacher satisfaction evaluation).

In the second stage, candidates who pass the first stage will undergo a fair and thorough evaluation through in-depth interviews assessing teaching competency, peer teacher support capability, and student guidance skills, with the final appointees selected by November.

The Office plans to conduct qualification training (at least 90 hours) for the finally selected senior teachers in January 2025. During this period, they will cultivate the professionalism and teaching consulting skills required as senior teachers, and then appoint them as newly appointed senior teachers effective March 1.

Lee Jeong-hyun, Director of the Education Competency Policy Division at the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, stated, “We will strive to actively support teachers’ teaching and research activities by selecting excellent senior teachers with educational expertise,” adding, “Through balanced regional placement of the selected senior teachers, we will work to ensure that teaching research activities and student life education support are actively carried out for all new (inexperienced) and experienced teachers throughout the province.”

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