Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks (QTNs)

This QTN aims at promoting positive education and culture so as to cultivate a positive attitude among children towards learning and life. The QTN assists schools to strengthen home-school co-operation to foster whole child development. The QTN coordinator will also promote professional sharing through networking different schools for enhancing teachers’ professional development.

This QTN aims at developing STEM education with artificial intelligence (AI) and establishing Design Thinking application tool kit for STEM Education. The QTN fosters the development of students’ growth mindset and creative thinking through design tasks. The QTN also promotes STEM education to different stakeholders by setting up a STEM Education Resource Hub and opening special room, and providing teacher training and student workshops.

This QTN aims at establishing an interschool 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 students to make use of the design cycle, show their creativity and cultivate positive values and attitudes. The QTN also supports teachers to establish a school weather station to investigate the weather of the four seasons and provides opportunities for students to apply coding and enhance their innovative and computational thinking skills.

This QTN aims at promoting computational thinking and STEM education through Mathematics learning activities and cross-curricular activities in KS1. Teachers of the participating schools will apply the concept of computational thinking and improve their capability of using information technology in teaching. This QTN will establish a teacher learning community and foster inter-school professional exchange. This QTN will also provide workshops for teachers, parents and students of participating schools and other schools and allow them to use the equipment and tools provided by the coordinating school under the STEM Education Resource Hub.

This QTN aims at helping participating schools develop school-based STEM-related curriculum and activities, carrying out the learning and teaching activities using different devices and hardware. The project also introduces the educational concept of “Maker” in school settings.