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“Invention King” Teacher Who Train “Idea Man”
2013.07.08
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| The nickname of Kim Hyo-sang, 45, teacher at Daegwang Technical High School in Busan is 'invention king.' He acquired three patents and one of them has already been commercialized. His students also got on board of his invention frenzy. Students in the school have suggested 1,800 ingenious ideas over the period of past four years, and four of them got patented and 50 others are being prepared for patent application.
"By gleaning uncovered ideas of students, I wanted to give them a sense of achievement. As it is social misperception that underperforming students are coming to vocational high schools, vocational high schools that account for 35% of the total high schools in the nation are on the downward spiral. We must boost the chi (high spirit) of students," Kim stresses.
It was in 1998 that he was assigned to this school. He graduated from Busan Electronic Technical High School and majored in electronics at Donga University. He served as a research at Mando Mechanical Research Institute for two years from 1986 and earned his Ph.D. while teaching technology class at Gwangmyung High School in Busan. After one year professorship at Gumi technical college, he moved to Busan to join his family and started to teach here at Daegwang Technical High School. The first three years were the days of inner conflict, he says.
"I was in despair to watch students not understand what I was teaching. Students lost interest in studying and frequently played truancy. Juvenile delinquency was not uncommon. I had to frequent police station to the extent not sure whether I was a teacher or a policeman," Kim recalls.
Mulling over whether to go back to college to teach, he concluded that "it was more rewarding to teach one student right than sending many good students to so-called best colleges." Determined, he started to make Nunnopi (eye-level) teaching materials for students. He was also encouraged by the full support from the schools principal Bae Sang-tae. With the help of colleagues, he produced easy-to-read interesting textbooks rather than ones with incomprehensible jargons and difficult formula.
"I focused on teaching one thing right rather than teaching ten different things at once. I saw the sparkling eyes of students. They returned to class with growing interest with fewer absenteeism," Kim says.
This year, he improved hands-on training program. The improved program allowed students with alternating three-month on-site hands-on practices and three-month school classes for sophomore and senior students. This way, students learned both theory and practice and the companies that hire them did not have to retrain new employees any more. For this innovative program, Kim received Deputy Prime Minister’s Award at School Policy Contest held under the auspices of the in June 2005 Education Fair. He also had the honor to win the 14th Nunnopi Education Award presented by the Daekyo Culture Foundation. Kim was also named on Dec. 13 as New Intellectual by Education Ministry in education category.
Busy leading the school’s invention team, creating new classroom materials, and developing education policies, his utmost priority is to give confidence to students in vocational high schools.
"With confidence, the students will have the natural power to create their own future. With regained confidence, the vocational school students will hopefully be respected by society as competent technical specialists."
By Park Hye-min, Reporter; Photo: Kim Sang-seon, Reporter, acirfa@joongang.co.kr
ⓒ The Joongang Ilbo & Joins.com; All rights reserved
[2005. 12. 14] The Joongang Ilbo
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