New Challenges of Daegu Education to Learn for the Future and Grow Together - International Baccalaureate (IB) Program -

Abstract

The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education (DMOE) is introducing and implementing the International Baccalaureate (IB) program in public education in order to foster future global talents with creativity and critical thinking skills in preparation for the 4th Industrial Revolution society, to develop the efforts with teachers to improve class instruction, integrating a consistent ‘Curriculum-Teaching & Learning-Assessment-Records’ system into classes, and to bridge the regional educational gap by providing priority support for schools in areas with difficult educational conditions. In particular, in order to implement the Diploma Programme without language barriers, DMOE and the IB has singed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) and the Dual Language (English & Korean) Diploma Programme (DLDP) is being introduced. Currently, there are 9 IB candidate schools and 6 IB interested schools, a total of 15 schools, under the support of DMOE, and the first IB World School in the language of Korean in public education field is expected to come out early next year. DMOE is spurring the implementation of the IB programmes as an educational model to develop students’ future essential competencies preparing for the future society, through various efforts such as strengthening teacher training and drawing support from the community on the policy.