culture

By giving priority to scientific research

Choe Jin A, lecturer at the Chemistry Faculty of Kim Il Sung University, developed and introduced a teaching method for enhancing the students’ logical understanding and innovative and creative abilities.

One day she happened to know about a new material drawing worldwide attention.

She carried out a literature search but failed to gather enough data on the correlation between the structure and properties of the material.

Through painstaking research, she discovered the correlation between the structures and properties of high polymers and applied her research results to teaching practice.

She planned the course of her teaching as that of the research she had undertaken and added videos and experimental data to it.

The creation of a new teaching method is unthinkable apart from the innovation in educational content, Choe Jin A said, adding that scientific research is a priority.

By boosting effectiveness and efficiency of understanding

Kim Song Jong, section chief of Pyongyang University of Architecture, created and applied a teaching method for improving the students’ analytical capability.

While giving lectures to students, he wondered why the students failed to understand the movement of an apparatus. It was simple if they knew it, but they found it very hard to grasp its theory.

He thought that it was because they had a vague notion of it.

So he came up with an idea to develop an operating model which is more vivid in visual quality.

Finally, Kim Song Jong made a general presentation device of the apparatus, which helps students grasp its theory while seeing the actions of the apparatus, thereby further improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the students’ understanding. And as it helped students know to what kinds of machines these apparatuses are applied, he could fulfil the purpose of his teaching.