Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education to Fully Expand IB Education to General Schools... Kicking Off Full-Fledged Innovation in Teaching and Assessment

Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education to Accelerate
Expansion of IB Education Outcomes by 2026
Applying IB Education in General Schools
Focusing on Future-Oriented Teaching and Learning Practices

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Taehee) will fully implement the 'Policy to Mainstream International Baccalaureate (IB) Education' to spread the achievements of IB education, which it has pursued over the past three years, across the entire public education system.

Diagram of the 'International Baccalaureate Education Mainstreaming Policy'. Provided by Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education

The aim is to apply the principles of IB teaching and assessment in classrooms regardless of school type or regional conditions, and to support schools in broadly implementing Gyeonggi's future-oriented teaching and learning in the field.

To this end, the office has established a system to mainstream IB education consisting of: strengthening the capabilities of the educational community; building research and practice networks; and sharing and disseminating outcomes. It plans to make various efforts based on this framework.

In particular, it will use 'IB specialist teachers' and 'IB World Schools (authorized schools)' as core implementation bases to advance the mainstreaming of IB education.

On February 10, the office trained 75 IB International Certified Facilitators (FPD) through three rounds of intensive training. In addition, by operating university-linked programs, it produced 86 additional 'IB Education Experts (IBEC)', securing a total of about 460 'IB specialist teachers' and thereby establishing a field-driven support system.

They will serve as key members of the 'IB Education Research Community'. By collaborating with teachers at schools that do not yet operate IB programs, they will apply IB teaching and assessment to regular classes and support the spread of future-oriented teaching and learning throughout school sites.

In February 2026, including Yeoncheon Wangsanchang Elementary School, the office completed IB World School authorization for a total of 30 schools, thereby creating hubs for sharing regional cases of IB teaching and assessment. These schools will share the real conditions of IB teaching and assessment through open classes and case sharing, and, in connection with elementary, middle, and high school curricula, will play a pivotal role in promoting the spread of region-centered IB education.

The office plans to support the substantive practice of IB teaching and assessment at IB World Schools and, focusing on IB specialist teachers and IB World Schools, to gradually promote the mainstreaming of IB education by expanding the operation of regional research communities and by accumulating and sharing cases of teaching and assessment practice. Through these efforts, it will continue policy support so that IB education can become a driving force that fundamentally transforms teaching and assessment culture across the entire public education system.

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