Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education to Select 200 Teachers for 2025 Gyeonggi Teacher Research Year Program

Supporting Growth of Long-Term Teachers with 15 to Over 25 Years of Experience
Realizing Gyeonggi Education through Field Communication with 47 Policy-Linked Research Topics
Contributing to a Growing Teaching Culture by Enhancing Teacher Research Skills and Deepening Expertise

A view of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Southern Building.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Tae-hee) announced on the 24th that it will select the ‘2025 Gyeonggi Teacher Research Year Research Teachers’ to continuously support the growth of long-term service teachers.

The Office of Education selected 137 teacher research year research teachers in 2023 and 190 in 2024. In 2025, it plans to select 200 teachers with over 15 or 25 years of teaching experience by category.

The detailed categories and number of selections are ▲Educational Research 75 teachers ▲Policy Research I (Policy Implementation Type) & II (Policy Department Linked Type) 75 teachers ▲Educational Recovery Research 50 teachers.

Eligible applicants are teachers working at public kindergartens, national, public, and private elementary, middle, high, and special schools within the province, who have long-term service with over 15 years of teaching experience (for Educational and Policy Research categories) or over 25 years of teaching experience (for Educational Recovery category).

The research topics by category include ▲Field-oriented student educational research at the class, school, and regional levels ▲Research related to the implementation and effects of new Gyeonggi education policies ▲Policy department-linked current issue research topics (47 research topics across 11 policy departments) ▲Autonomous research for field-centered educational capacity recovery.

Interested teachers can apply by category to the Education Support Office to which their school belongs by October 8. The Office of Education will conduct a fair selection process including a first-stage document review and a second-stage in-depth interview, and will finalize the candidates in November.

Lee Jung-hyun, Director of the Education Capacity Policy Division at the Office of Education, said, “With the expanded operation of the Gyeonggi Teacher Research Year, we plan to support the deepening of educational research skills and professional efficacy of long-term service teachers in various ways,” adding, “We will strive to strengthen the research capabilities of teachers who are in the mature stage of their careers and play a central role in schools, contributing to the spread of a growing professional culture.”

Meanwhile, the Office of Education actively supports research activities by building communication networks for selected teacher research year participants and holding seasonal workshops, interim reporting sessions, and final academic conferences. After the research period, it supports the deepening of teachers’ research skills through the public release of research reports and sharing the results of the final academic conference in the field.