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

To work collaboratively with Participating Schools to develop their school-based Basic Law education lessons and learning activities, as well as to share relevant resources with them; To foster a collaborative culture through activities such as collaborative lesson planning, lesson observation and post-lesson discussion; and To share the successful experience of the Network Co-ordinating School and Participating Schools with teachers in Hong Kong.

To flexibly adopt diversified learning and teaching strategies to construct teaching contexts with close connection to the learning key points and difficulties so as to arouse students’ learning motivation, facilitate students to construct mathematical concepts and develop their logical thinking; To design key questions in the lesson to stimulate students’ thinking, to guide them to observe, to explore and to take initiatives to exchange their ideas so as to enhance their ability and thinking in learning Mathematics; To strengthen the vertical continuity and lateral coherence of the Mathematics school-based curriculum through designing the learning units with effective assignments and tasks before, during and after lessons; and To utilise the e-learning platform and diversified assessment to review students’ learning outcomes and provide students with instant feedback that can improve the learning and teaching effectiveness.

In 2020/21 school year, QEF sponsored 17 secondary schools and primary schools to implement QTN-S, which covered different subjects and themes. The QTN-S has provided support to the participating primary and secondary schools and enhanced professional exchanges as well as professional capacity building to facilitate continuous development of schools.8 QTN-S dissemination seminars would be organized in the form of online live webinars from 16 June to 13 July 2021.

To assist the Participating Schools in promoting STEM education in General Studies so as to facilitate the connection among the three Key Learning Areas (KLAs), namely Science, Technology and Mathematics Education; To assist teachers in designing hands-on and brains-on STEM education activities through which students’ ability in applying knowledge and skills across different KLAs can be enhanced.

To enhance General Studies teachers’ ability in designing STEM activities; To assist teachers of the Participating Schools in integrating STEM education and coding in the General Studies curriculum effectively so as to improve the planning of school-based curriculum through the development of curriculum leadership; To integrate computational thinking into General Studies curriculum through the application of Micro:bit; To enhance teachers’ ability in designing “minds-on and hands-on science activities” so as to facilitate students’ learning of science concepts and science process skills; To promote cross-school interaction and professional exchanges by establishing a cross-school learning community; To develop students’ computational thinking and problem-solving skills.