Empowerment and Transition – Supporting Teachers to Promote Multicultural Students’ Chinese Learning in Primary and Secondary Schools (2023/24)

To equip teachers with theoretical knowledge of teaching Chinese as a second language as well as effective blended-learning pedagogies in catering for learning diversity in classroom so as to enhance primary and secondary NCS students’ Chinese language proficiency; To train up curriculum leaders to develop and manage school curriculum for promoting school sustainability; To assist teachers in helping NCS students with their academic and affective preparation for their further study of Chinese in secondary schools; To develop good practices with a solid theoretical ground so as to disseminate the knowledge and experiences and meanwhile maximise their impact; To assist primary and secondary schools in designing systematically the school-based support measures for a smooth transition from primary to secondary education in both academic and affective domains.