Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks (QTNs)

This QTN aims at promoting STEM education to primary and secondary schools with the use of science packages, micro-controllers and sensors. This QTN enhances teachers’ and students’ interest in learning science through engaging their participation in various activities and develop a professional learning community across secondary and primary schools so as to incorporate STEM education in different learning stages.

This QTN aims at collaboratively establishing an interschool professional network and constructing an environmental education curriculum – “Amazing Code of Life”, with experiential learning and STEM elements. Through hands-on and minds-on experiential activities about genetic codes, students’ interest in STEM and environmental education and appreciation of the wonders of life will be nurtured. With the use of DNA laboratory of the coordinating school, support for experiential STEM activities will be provided.

This QTN aims at enhancing S.1 – S.2 students’ social competence and understanding of sex and relationship education as well as promoting the values of “respect for others” and “empathy”. The QTN will also assist students to establish healthy social networks so as to facilitate their adjustment to adolescence period and provide school personnel with relevant professional training.

Quality Education Fund (QEF) organises diversified dissemination activities annually. Starting from 2006, QEF has been implementing QEF Thematic Networks (QTNs), aiming to connect different schools and education bodies, build up professional network, disseminate successful experiences and strengthen professional development as well as exchanges. In 2021/22 school year, QEF sponsored 15 tertiary institutions, secondary schools and primary schools to implement QTNs, which covered different subjects and themes. The QTNs has provided support to the participating kindergartens, primary and secondary schools and enhanced professional exchanges as well as professional capacity building to facilitate continuous development of schools. 15 QTNs dissemination seminar would be organized in the form of online live webinars from 14 June to 5 August 2022 in the online platform arranged by QTN Co-ordinators.

This QTN aims at establishing a school network in supporting the diverse learning needs (reading and writing) of junior secondary students. Through different kinds of training such as workshops and lesson observations, teachers’ professional capacity will be enhanced. Teachers will be able to use different strategies to improve their pedagogies in reading and writing. New information technology elements will be incorporated in the learning materials to cater for learner diversity.