Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks (QTNs)

This QTN aims at enhancing teachers’ professional capacity for integrating knowledge, skills, attitude and action into the learning and teaching of Citizenship and Social Development. In addition to developing students’ knowledge and skills, the Citizenship and Social Development curriculum also includes exploratory activities and practical applications for students’ internalisation of values and the concept of sustainable development learned. The project will enhance teachers’ understanding of issue-inquiry learning so as to foster students’ critical thinking skills and positive values. Collaborative lesson planning, observation and review of lessons will be arranged to enhance teachers’ professional growth.

This QTN aims at helping participating schools construct school-based assessment objective lists and an assessment analysis system so as to develop assessment literacy; analyse quantitative and qualitative assessment data; collect students’ performance data with diversified assessment tools such as STAR, formative assessment, examinations, Basic Competency Assessment and lesson activities; enhance students’ ability by integrating different teaching materials sourced from platforms such as Web-based Learning and Teaching Support (WLTS) and provide effective feedback to enhance the effectiveness of learning and teaching. Relevant information will be disseminated to parents of the participating schools to help them understand the teaching mode. Professional development activities, including sharing sessions, workshops, collaborative lesson planning, lesson observation and evaluation, will be organised for teachers of the participating schools.

This QTN aims at promoting Assessment for Learning and Assessment as Learning with the use of school-based subject hierarchical knowledge/competency framework. Teachers of participating schools refine the design of lessons and assessment through attending workshops, co-planning meetings and lesson observations, etc. With a view to enhancing teachers’ assessment literacy, catering for learner diversity and enhancing students’ self-directed learning capabilities, the teaching design will be developed and the design of school-based curriculum and the strategies of learning, teaching and assessment will be enhanced.

This QTN aims at supporting participating schools to develop STEM education with artificial intelligence (AI), establish Design Thinking application tool kit for STEM education and foster the development of students’ growth mindset and creative thinking through design tasks.

This QTN aims at establishing an inter-school professional exchange network and enhancing teachers’ professional capacity for planning and implementing school-based STEM-related curriculum. Through hands-on and minds-on exploratory activities in General Studies, teachers can develop students’ capabilities to integrate and apply knowledge and skills as well as encourage them to make use of the design cycle, show their creativity and cultivate positive values and attitudes. The project also supports teachers to provide opportunities for students to apply coding and enhance their computational thinking skills through establishing a school weather station to investigate the weather of the four seasons.