The project aims at nurturing students with tradition Chinese values through introduction of Lunyu (《論語》) in the learning and teaching of National Education in 2 participating primary schools and 2 participating secondary schools. Drama Education would be adopted as the major teaching method to arouse the interest of students in learning Lunyu. Teachers' training, lesson co-planning and observation between teachers and experts, lesson plan design, etc, will be conducted during the project period. A publication which embodies theories, teaching methods and around 20 teaching plans in applying drama education in learning and teaching of Lunyu will be the deliverable of the project.
The project aims at providing structural life education courses and activities to help students of the applicant school to establish positive and proactive life values and face life challenges in future. The project deliverables include teaching packages for distribution to all kindergartens in Hong Kong.
The project aims at elevating the quality of Independent Enquiry Study (IES), one of the modules in the Senior Secondary Liberal Studies (LS) curriculum, among 800 students of 4 secondary schools through scaffolded experiential learning approach, in an IES learning game, followed by integrating the new elements generated in the game with the LS curriculum of the 4 participating schools. A project handbook comprising ready-to-use IES game resources, teacher's facilitation strategies and an IES learning model will be produced as tangible deliverable.
The project aims at nurturing the moral and civic development of around 2,300 S4 to S6 students from 10 collaborating secondary schools through organizing structural learning activities in Cultural Education to investigate the cultural and regional characteristics of some selected districts. Field studies, workshops, interviews, writing and art creation exercises and photography activities will be included in the project. Relevant teaching materials, collection and exhibition of students' work and a website containing the teaching materials produced will be the project's deliverables.
The project aims at nurturing the creativity, high order thinking skills and interpersonal skills of around 900 students of the applicant school through implementing a gifted education program which includes teacher training, trial application of gifted educational strategies in classroom teaching and various interest classes. School-based teaching resources in gifted education and a publication recording the good work of students will be the project's tangible deliverables.