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 Liberal Studies (LS). In addition to developing students’ knowledge and skills, exploratory activities and practical applications will be arranged in the LS curriculum for students’ internalisation of values and the concept of sustainable development learned. The project will arrange activities to 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 development.

This QTN aims at helping participating schools develop school-based assessment objectives and a systematic analysis system on assessment literacy, analyse assessment data quantitatively and qualitatively, collect data of students’ performance with tools such as STAR, progressive assessment, examinations and basic ability tests and lesson activities, enhance students’ ability by integrating different teaching materials sourced from web-based platforms such as WLTS and provide effective feedback on learning and teaching. Relevant information will be promoted to help parents of the participating schools understand the teaching model. Professional development activities including experience sharing sessions, workshops, collaborative lesson planning, observation and evaluation will be organised for teachers of 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 will discuss and design lessons in co-planning meetings in order to cater for learner diversity to enhance students’ learning effectiveness and to improve the learning and teaching cycle. Participating schools will be supported to use assessment data to inform curriculum planning and learning and teaching strategies with a view to promoting self-directed learning of students.

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 missions.

This QTN aims at establishing an inter-school professional 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, students’ capabilities to integrate and apply knowledge and skills will be developed. By reinforcing the design cycle, students’ creativity will be cultivated. 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 climate of four seasons.