have recently been selected in the DPRK.

Ri Chol, lecturer at the Physics Faculty of Kim Chol Ju University of Education, trained two students as Kim Il Sung scholarship winners and all students of the class in his charge as honour students in all subjects, winners of the university student scientific search prize and polyglots, while working for years as an instructor of the continuous course of the physics department of the faculty. He also took part in writing a textbook and reference book on the information processing technology subject of senior middle school for the implementation of the second programme for universal 12-year compulsory education.

Rim Hye Sim, teacher of Jungdok Primary School in Phyongsong City affiliated to Phyongsong Teachers Training College, has taken parental care of many students and trained them to be honour students in the past 30-odd years. She made a lot of teaching aids and experimental apparatuses to enhance their practical abilities and thus contributed to giving students a theoretical understanding of teaching contents of natural science subjects in plain language and in an interesting way.

Kang Sun Hwa, teacher of Jongju Primary School in Jongju City, was highly appreciated at the 30th national symposium on teaching methods and presentation of experience in instruction and edification in the field of primary and secondary education and created and generalized new teaching methods. She helped Koan Primary School in Jongju City, a rural school, with education work to enable several teachers to be highly appreciated at the provincial teaching contests and the national symposiums on teaching methods and presentations of experience in instruction and edification in the field of primary and secondary education.

Kim Un Hye, teacher of Haeun Primary School in Haeju City, helped students complete several collections of literary works by directing efforts to improving their writing abilities. In the past five years, she produced 10 winners of various literature prizes including the children’s literature prize and “Our Classroom” literature prize and contributed to the development of several education support programs and to instruction and edification work by creating valuable teaching methods.

Kim Hyang Gum, teacher of Anchang Senior Middle School in Rinsan County, took the first place in the provincial and county teaching contests and won top prize in the national teaching contest of primary, junior and senior middle schools last year, instilling into other teachers in rural schools the confidence that they can also create effective and superior teaching methods. She also trained the students of her class as A and B students.

Kim Myong Ok, teacher of Phyonggang Primary School in Phyonggang County, took part in the provincial and county teaching contests and conducted demonstration classes on 16 occasions to generalize excellent teaching methods. As a section chief, she also intensified guidance for new teachers over teaching to help them take the first place in the county teaching contests and teaching experience-sharing meetings.

Kim Yun Bong, physical education teacher of Kwangpho Senior Middle School in Jongphyong County, actively applied to teaching various multimedia presentations, acquired broad knowledge and steadily conducted extracurricular teaching for students, thereby making his class always take the first place in the county academic contests.

Yun Jong Hwa, teacher of Hyejang Primary School in Hyesan City, who cured her student with paraplegia, took warm care of several students including an orphan, thus making her class a model one. She also presented new valuable teaching methods and made experimental apparatuses and teaching aids to win 18 certificates.

Kim Un Suk, teacher of Nongsa Senior Middle School in Taehongdan County, volunteered to work in the county and came there from Pyongyang, her birthplace, after graduating from the Mathematics Faculty of Kim Chol Ju University of Education 26 years ago.

She has devoted all her wisdom and passion to students since then. Last year, she contrived over 10 pieces of teaching aids including a robot to generalize them to the schools in the county.

Ri Un Chol, department head of Kanggye Teachers Training College, worked out an experimental education programme related to the introduction of a new teaching management system for the first time in the teachers training sector and delivered experimental education for the past three years. Based on the successes and experience gained in that course, he gave lectures at the national short courses on several occasions, thus performing a vanguard role in encouraging teachers training colleges to introduce the new teaching management system.