Some time ago I visited Changdok School situated in Chilgol-dong No. 1, Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang.

While entering the front gate I saw good species of trees including pine trees planted around the school going well with faraway high-rise apartments. Indeed the scenery was as beautiful as a picture.

When I was seeing pupils playing on the playground of green artificial turf, Jon Jong Ho, headmaster of the school, approached and said, “All visitors to my school express their envy. It is because mine is the alma mater of President Kim Il Sung.”

Then he guided me to a place where there is preserved a historic building fronted by a statue of young Kim Il Sung in school uniform—Kim Il Sung had studied in the building. We made a bow respectfully in front of the statue and looked round the old building before going to the building of the school.

In an E-reading Room

Inside the building I found the walls of the ground-floor corridor hung with boards dedicated to the introduction of common sense and formulas for pupils’ education and edification. Then I heard a melody telling a recess. It was time for pupils to drink soya milk, the headmaster said and guided me to an e-reading room.

“This room enables us to get necessary scientific and technical data through the national network quickly and accurately so as to improve the quality of education steadily,” he explained.

In the centre of the room, there was a large oval table on which computers and necessary equipment were arranged in a circle. And its walls were hung with boards of various common sense. So it made me feel as if I were in a scientific institute.

The headmaster said: In this room the teachers not only get various data needed for the improvement of their qualifications including the advanced sci-tech data and those on the world trend in the development of education and positively introduce them into educational practice but also get distance learning from central universities. And it serves as a venue for teaching contests, discussions of teaching methods and so on to improve the teachers’ qualifications.

 

Pupils’ Ability Improves

After looking round the e-reading room, we were passing by the room of 2-6 class. The classroom was furnished with modern teaching tools including an LCD TV and a real object projector, and the pupils were enthusiastically doing something with computers.

They were now having an online examination, the headmaster said and added: All their computers are connected with the school’s intranet, so they can read necessary e-data they want, and have an online lesson. When the examination is finished, their marks, the method of solving the problems and the results are displayed. This obviously helps the pupils improve their practical abilities.

Jon Kyong Hui, teacher in charge of the network control room, said, “The school established a real-time classwork inspection system, a daily routine execution system based on automatic music broadcasting and a teaching administration and management system and made the experimental and practical education IT-based by means of interfaces.”

Listening to her explanation, we looked round the network control room and different laboratories and department rooms. Suddenly we stopped in front of the department of literature.

 

For Improving the Qualifications

An Jong Ryon, a literature teacher, was giving a lecture before the other members of the department by using the multimedia she had prepared. After her lecture was over, the teachers expressed their opinions.

Choe Pun I, head of the department, said, “Through regular classwork inspection and teaching discussion, we find our merits and demerits for the purpose of improving our teaching effect.”

Soon they would have a meeting for judgment of ability by department, she added and guided me to the instruction section where the teachers were gathered. At the meeting there were raised problems in improving their computer-related skills including that of making various multimedia. With education made IT-based on a higher level, the problems and their methods of solving them were unusual, so it was not easy to decide the result.

The headmaster said, “Last year we developed a teacher’s program Multifunctional Teaching-Studying Aid System—Changdok 1.0, and it is making a contribution to the education and edification. In the future, we’ll further renovate the educational condition and environment and constantly improve the teachers’ qualifications as required by the developing reality so as to train more and more talented persons.”

The school has brought about some achievements in the educational work: 95 percent of its teachers have won the title of the October 8 Model Teacher; and a pupil became a thrice winner of the gold medal of the International Math Olympiad.

I left the school picturing a bright future of the pupils growing into talents in such a modern school.

Pak Thae Ho

Inside the building I found the walls of the ground-floor corridor hung with boards dedicated to the introduction of common sense and formulas for pupils’ education and edification. Then I heard a melody telling a recess. It was time for pupils to drink soya milk, the headmaster said and guided me to an e-reading room.

“This room enables us to get necessary scientific and technical data through the national network quickly and accurately so as to improve the quality of education steadily,” he explained.

In the centre of the room, there was a large oval table on which computers and necessary equipment were arranged in a circle. And its walls were hung with boards of various common sense. So it made me feel as if I were in a scientific institute.

The headmaster said: In this room the teachers not only get various data needed for the improvement of their qualifications including the advanced sci-tech data and those on the world trend in the development of education and positively introduce them into educational practice but also get distance learning from central universities. And it serves as a venue for teaching contests, discussions of teaching methods and so on to improve the teachers’ qualifications.

Pupils’ Ability Improves

After looking round the e-reading room, we were passing by the room of 2-6 class. The classroom was furnished with modern teaching tools including an LCD TV and a real object projector, and the pupils were enthusiastically doing something with computers.

They were now having an online examination, the headmaster said and added: All their computers are connected with the school’s intranet, so they can read necessary e-data they want, and have an online lesson. When the examination is finished, their marks, the method of solving the problems and the results are displayed. This obviously helps the pupils improve their practical abilities.

Jon Kyong Hui, teacher in charge of the network control room, said, “The school established a real-time classwork inspection system, a daily routine execution system based on automatic music broadcasting and a teaching administration and management system and made the experimental and practical education IT-based by means of interfaces.”

Listening to her explanation, we looked round the network control room and different laboratories and department rooms. Suddenly we stopped in front of the department of literature.

 

For Improving the Qualifications

An Jong Ryon, a literature teacher, was giving a lecture before the other members of the department by using the multimedia she had prepared. After her lecture was over, the teachers expressed their opinions.

Choe Pun I, head of the department, said, “Through regular classwork inspection and teaching discussion, we find our merits and demerits for the purpose of improving our teaching effect.”

Soon they would have a meeting for judgment of ability by department, she added and guided me to the instruction section where the teachers were gathered. At the meeting there were raised problems in improving their computer-related skills including that of making various multimedia. With education made IT-based on a higher level, the problems and their methods of solving them were unusual, so it was not easy to decide the result.

The headmaster said, “Last year we developed a teacher’s program Multifunctional Teaching-Studying Aid System—Changdok 1.0, and it is making a contribution to the education and edification. In the future, we’ll further renovate the educational condition and environment and constantly improve the teachers’ qualifications as required by the developing reality so as to train more and more talented persons.”

The school has brought about some achievements in the educational work: 95 percent of its teachers have won the title of the October 8 Model Teacher; and a pupil became a thrice winner of the gold medal of the International Math Olympiad.

I left the school picturing a bright future of the pupils growing into talents in such a modern school.

Pak Thae Ho

After looking round the e-reading room, we were passing by the room of 2-6 class. The classroom was furnished with modern teaching tools including an LCD TV and a real object projector, and the pupils were enthusiastically doing something with computers.

They were now having an online examination, the headmaster said and added: All their computers are connected with the school’s intranet, so they can read necessary e-data they want, and have an online lesson. When the examination is finished, their marks, the method of solving the problems and the results are displayed. This obviously helps the pupils improve their practical abilities.

Jon Kyong Hui, teacher in charge of the network control room, said, “The school established a real-time classwork inspection system, a daily routine execution system based on automatic music broadcasting and a teaching administration and management system and made the experimental and practical education IT-based by means of interfaces.”

Listening to her explanation, we looked round the network control room and different laboratories and department rooms. Suddenly we stopped in front of the department of literature.

For Improving the Qualifications

An Jong Ryon, a literature teacher, was giving a lecture before the other members of the department by using the multimedia she had prepared. After her lecture was over, the teachers expressed their opinions.

Choe Pun I, head of the department, said, “Through regular classwork inspection and teaching discussion, we find our merits and demerits for the purpose of improving our teaching effect.”

Soon they would have a meeting for judgment of ability by department, she added and guided me to the instruction section where the teachers were gathered. At the meeting there were raised problems in improving their computer-related skills including that of making various multimedia. With education made IT-based on a higher level, the problems and their methods of solving them were unusual, so it was not easy to decide the result.

The headmaster said, “Last year we developed a teacher’s program Multifunctional Teaching-Studying Aid System—Changdok 1.0, and it is making a contribution to the education and edification. In the future, we’ll further renovate the educational condition and environment and constantly improve the teachers’ qualifications as required by the developing reality so as to train more and more talented persons.”

The school has brought about some achievements in the educational work: 95 percent of its teachers have won the title of the October 8 Model Teacher; and a pupil became a thrice winner of the gold medal of the International Math Olympiad.

I left the school picturing a bright future of the pupils growing into talents in such a modern school.

Pak Thae Ho

An Jong Ryon, a literature teacher, was giving a lecture before the other members of the department by using the multimedia she had prepared. After her lecture was over, the teachers expressed their opinions.

Choe Pun I, head of the department, said, “Through regular classwork inspection and teaching discussion, we find our merits and demerits for the purpose of improving our teaching effect.”

Soon they would have a meeting for judgment of ability by department, she added and guided me to the instruction section where the teachers were gathered. At the meeting there were raised problems in improving their computer-related skills including that of making various multimedia. With education made IT-based on a higher level, the problems and their methods of solving them were unusual, so it was not easy to decide the result.

The headmaster said, “Last year we developed a teacher’s program Multifunctional Teaching-Studying Aid System—Changdok 1.0, and it is making a contribution to the education and edification. In the future, we’ll further renovate the educational condition and environment and constantly improve the teachers’ qualifications as required by the developing reality so as to train more and more talented persons.”

The school has brought about some achievements in the educational work: 95 percent of its teachers have won the title of the October 8 Model Teacher; and a pupil became a thrice winner of the gold medal of the International Math Olympiad.

I left the school picturing a bright future of the pupils growing into talents in such a modern school.

Pak Thae Ho