Gyeongbuk Office of Education Operates 'Classrooms Overflowing with Questions'... Distributes 'Question Notebooks' to 3rd-6th Grade Elementary Students

Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) announced on the 9th that it will continue to operate the “Classroom Overflowing with Questions” in 2025 to help students develop the ability to ask questions, explore, and solve problems on their own.

The “Classroom Overflowing with Questions” refers to a classroom where curiosity about learning is concretized into questions, and student-centered activities aimed at solving these questions take place.

Question Notebook published by Gyeongbuk Office of Education

Gyeongbuk Office of Education produced a “Question Notebook” based on three types of questions that students can easily create, and distributed it to all 3rd to 6th grade elementary school students in the province to foster a classroom culture where students’ voluntary questioning and discussion become routine and to improve students’ questioning skills. Through this, students will have opportunities to learn and apply how to ask questions.

In addition, in 2025, a “Question King of the Month” selection program will be operated to encourage students’ participation in using the Question Notebook.

Students create three types of questions about subjects and daily life in their Question Notebooks, write answers, and upload them to the “Classroom Overflowing with Questions” website. Winners are selected through evaluation, and outstanding students receive gift certificates. Students selected three or more times will have their certificates posted on the “Hall of Fame” bulletin board.

Meanwhile, last year, 2,433 students participated, 56 were selected as outstanding students, and among them, 7 were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Through the “Question Notebook” program, Gyeongbuk Office of Education plans to activate question-based subject classes where questions continuously arise between teachers and students and among students, moving beyond simple knowledge delivery classes, and establish student-led classes where students explore and solve problems through their own questions.

Classroom scene of the question class at Yecheon Homyeong Elementary School.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Office of Education, said, “I hope that a class culture centered on questions and discussions will spread to all classrooms in Gyeongbuk,” and added, “We will continue to support strengthening teachers’ questioning guidance capabilities through activating teacher learning communities, operating question leader groups, and nurturing teaching experts.”

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