Superintendent Lim Tae-hee is looking at the Korean version of the IB textbook and sharing opinions with attendees. [사진=임태희 교육감 SNS 캡처]
Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Superintendent Lim Tae-hee posted on his Facebook page on the 21st, “Class time at Osan Wonil Middle School, which was selected as an IB candidate school by the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education. Each person presented their specific ideas beyond the existing class method of finding causes and solutions to difficulties caused by the climate crisis.” He said.
Superintendent Lim said, “In response to the teacher’s question, “Kenya, which is experiencing a water shortage due to the climate crisis, how can we solve the problem?”, Ms. Lee of Osan Wonil Middle School proposed an ‘iron purification water tank’ that utilizes the principle of a water purification tank.” “It is a tumbler equipped with a water filter and an iron filter that can supplement the iron that Kenyans lack,” he explained.
Iron purification water bottle drawn by Lee Yang of Wonil Middle School in Osan [사진=임태희 교육감 SNS 캡처]
At the same time, he said, “Today, we participated in the ‘2024 Daegu IB Global Conference’ and requested training for teacher training and expansion of the Korean version of IB textbooks,” and “A competitive IB that ‘brings out ideas’ based on the ability to solve problems on one’s own, understanding and empathy.” “Through this, we will support our children so that they can become competitive in the future society,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, Superintendent Lim held a roundtable discussion with the IB headquarters executives along with superintendents of Daegu, Seoul, Incheon, South Chungcheong, Jeonbuk, and Jeju.
The roundtable discussed common agendas such as strengthening domestic IB education-related cooperation between the IB headquarters and provincial and provincial offices of education, expanding the establishment of IB Korean language workshops for IB teacher professional development, accelerating the translation of IB materials into Korean, and reinforcing projects to improve university awareness.
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IB is an internationally certified school education program that pursues learners’ self-directed growth through conceptual understanding and exploratory learning activities based on a competency-centered curriculum. The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education is promoting teacher capacity building as part of the establishment of IB education, and supported the participation of 103 principals and teachers from IB schools in the province in this conference.
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