Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks (QTNs)

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.

This QTN aims at promoting computational thinking and STEM education through Mathematics learning activities and interdisciplinary 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 aims at helping participating schools develop school-based STEM-related curriculum and activities, carry 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 supporting participating teachers to familiarise themselves with the use of tools and equipment through a series of regular workshops, to plan and set up school-based STEMaker space, as well as to carry out a series of lesson observations to deepen and develop STEMaker curriculum. The project will be delivered in four stages, i.e. Learning, Planning, Consolidation and Development stages.