Major Projects in Mongolia

Mongolia has introduced the new education standard in 2005. The new education standards focused on shifting from 10-year basic education system to 12-year education system and introducing new subjects such as integrated learning, natural science (integrated science) and others. In accordance with the new education standards, the teaching methods have been also expected to change from conventional teacher-centered to student-centered ones. However, at the school level, it has been hard to implement the new education standards because its contents are too academic for classroom teachers to put them into practice.

To address these challenges, JICA conducted "Teaching Methods improvement Project toward Children's Development in Mongolia" had been implemented from 2006 to 2009. Through that project, 24 teacher's guidebooks for 8 subjects were developed and distributed to nationwide schools. As a next step it was necessary to disseminate the teaching methods which were developed during that project.

As a next step, the new project, which has implemented since 2010, aims capacity development of teachers as well as Department of Education and Culture of each Aimag in order to practice and disseminate the new teaching method properly.