Secondary education units in Pyongyang City created new useful and superior teaching methods.

East Pyongyang Secondary School No. 1 created a teaching method that helps students acquire new knowledge in the course of independently finding data on the set problems and presenting their solution on the basis of analysis and synthesis made under the guidance of a teacher. This method is conducive to making the students understand the essence of matters and phenomena more quickly and correctly and training them into creative talents with versatile knowledge and application ability.

Changdok School presented a rational method for developing the students' cognitive and analytic ability on a higher level and Pyongyang Foreign Languages School made peculiar visual aids that help the students possess high linguistic ability while acquiring the standard pronunciation of foreign languages.

Secondary education units in local areas, too, are conducting such vigorous works as further improving the instruction effect through introduction of virtual and augmented reality technologies and putting the teaching and experiments and practical training on an IT basis of higher level.

In his famous work "On Improving Secondary General Education" published on June 10, Juche 101 (2012), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un clarified that the education in science and technology, the education in computer science and foreign languages in particular, should be intensified while giving precedence to the politico-ideological education and putting main stress on the education in general knowledge of basic sciences.

He stressed that efforts should be directed to the laboratory and practical training in the stage of the secondary general education so as to make students foster their application and practical ability, fully acquire the basic technological knowledge applicable to practice and perfect the basis of their logical thinking ability in the main.