Quality Education Fund Thematic Networks - Schools (QTN-S)

To help teachers master in determining the teaching objectives, strategies and self-directed learning guidelines of STEAM education, and design related learning portfolios, assessment methods and rubrics; Yo establish an interactive teacher professional learning community to let teachers share their teaching design and experience; To let teachers help students solve problems in daily life with STEAM knowledge; To nurture students’ perseverance, courage to innovate and an attitude of continuous improvement, and enhance their interest and curiosity in the world of science and technology, and concern about the impact of science and technology on society.

To examine and share with the participating schools on how to make use of diversified strategies and effective Mathematics lessons to enhance students’ motivation in learning Mathematics and their self-directed learning (SDL) ability; To establish a collaborative and learning culture that promotes professional exchanges among teachers within and across schools.

To assist participating schools in developing STEAM education by designing interdisciplinary units of learning and project learning according to the needs of the participating schools. It also involves incorporating elements of “reading to learn” and “e-learning” to enhance the connection among Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics education; To help participating schools design hands-on and brains-on science inquiry activities in the General Studies subject to enhance students' ability to integrate and apply knowledge and skills from different disciplines; To assist participating schools in designing cross-disciplinary activities that promote high order thinking in Computer or Mathematics education, thereby enhancing students’ creative problem-solving abilities, fostering their entrepreneurial spirit and positive values; To strengthen the leadership role of teachers in participating schools and the ability to organise professional development training for teachers, thereby equipping teachers with knowledge, attitudes, and skills relevant to STEAM education.

To induce students’ learning motivation and construct their mathematical concepts and logical thinking, through the use of e-learning platforms and tools that pair up with diversified modes of assessments, by creating scenarios that connect to important and difficult teaching points when applying diversified strategies for developing self-directed learning in students; To lead teachers to design key questions and construct effective Mathematics lessons so as to provoke students’ thinking, guide them to observe, explore and actively exchange ideas, as well as develop their mathematical thinking and learning ability; To use e-learning platforms with peer sharing and comment functions to record the learning process, encourage peers to appreciate each other’s learning achievements, and facilitate students to communicate, collaborate, co-construct and share knowledge with their peers. Through encouraging messages, teachers and students recognise the efforts of students in the learning process, improve students’ information literacy through practice, and cultivate students’ positive values and attitudes of respecting others and learning to appreciate; To promote the development of school Mathematics curriculum and strengthen its vertical and lateral coherence through unit planning and effective course work design (pre-learning tasks, classwork and extended learning tasks).

To incorporate the use of information technology (IT) into the school English Language curriculum and to use e-learning effectively in the teaching of reading skills; To introduce e-learning pedagogies and e-tools; To arouse students’ interest in reading non-fiction.