Gyeongbuk Office of Education Produces 503 'Teaching Experts' with Outstanding Teaching Skills in Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and High Schools

"Leading the Innovative Advancement of Classroom Instruction"

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) announced on the 31st that it has newly certified 503 teaching experts from kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high schools in 2024 through the ‘Teaching Expert Development System’ operated to strengthen the competitiveness of public education.

The Teaching Expert Development System, implemented since 2015, is a representative policy of Gyeongbuk’s teaching innovation. It selects teachers with excellent teaching capabilities, certifies them as teaching experts, and leads the spread of student-centered classes and the improvement of classroom teaching.

A teaching research teacher is guiding students at Bonghwa Elementary School. Gyeongbuk Office of Education

This system operates through gradual and continuous support. At the level of education support offices, teachers are certified as ‘Teaching Research Teachers’ through the evaluation of teaching expert committees. Then, through the evaluation by the provincial classroom teaching improvement support group, teachers receive stepwise certification as ‘Teaching Leading Teachers’ and ‘Teaching Masters.’ The evaluation process consists of teaching assessments and activity performance reviews.

Until last year, 5,878 Teaching Research Teachers, 1,049 Teaching Leading Teachers, and 2 Teaching Masters were certified. This year, 503 teachers were certified as teaching experts: 31 kindergarten teachers (29 Teaching Research Teachers, 2 Teaching Leading Teachers), 356 elementary school teachers (316 Teaching Research Teachers, 40 Teaching Leading Teachers), and 116 middle and high school teachers (100 Teaching Research Teachers, 16 Teaching Leading Teachers).

In particular, teachers participating as teaching experts this year operated classes such as ‘Classrooms Overflowing with Questions,’ student-generated curricula, and the 1-1-1 Project Learning, fostering a classroom culture that normalizes students’ voluntary questioning and discussions. Through this, they have been recognized for leading the realization of a student-centered future-oriented curriculum.

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education expects that teachers certified as teaching experts will present directions for classroom teaching innovation to help students proactively organize their lives and learning, and lead the qualitative growth of public education by sharing various teaching cases and materials.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, stated, “We will actively support the voluntary teaching research culture and its establishment among teachers so that student-centered classes can further develop, and we will proactively promote various policies to improve teachers’ teaching capabilities to bring new changes to classroom teaching innovation.”

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