Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks (QTNs)

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.

This QTN aims at familiarising teachers with the use of tools and equipment through a series of regular workshops so as to facilitate their planning and setting up of school-based STEMaker space. Through carrying out a series of lesson observations, STEMaker curriculum will be developed or deepened. The project will be delivered in four stages, i.e. Learning, Planning, Consolidation and Development stages.

This QTN aims at enhancing teachers’ professional capacity for using inquiry approach in designing STEM learning and teaching activities. The QTN also helps students learn, improve and apply their interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills relating to STEM education as well as nurture their creativity and entrepreneurial spirit through implementing a scientific investigation based curriculum supplemented with learning of computational thinking skills.