The project aims at strengthening reading comprehension ability of Hong Kong primary school students through the provision of an interactive e-quiz cloud service to scaffold students' comprehension at different stages of reading as well as enable teachers and parents to monitor students' level of comprehension in both Chinese and English children literature. A bank of during-reading and post-reading questions with scaffolding support specific to each title will be developed.
The proposed project aims at enhancing the knowledge of 300 pre-primary teachers from 17 kindergartens in Drama-in-Education, to enable the delivery of diversified and interesting learning activities to achieve effective learning outcomes. Drama-in-Education will also help to explore the multi-intelligence of young children and improve their communication and social skills, physical co-ordination, self-care ability and emotional well-being. Learning packages on Drama-in-Education for pre-primary students of K1, K2 and K3, will be developed as project deliverables for uploading onto the website for sharing among the teachers. 17 kindergartens will join the project and 300 teachers, 2700 students and 5000 parents will benfit from the project.
The project aims at conducting Seminars/ workshops to enrich teachers' pedagogical repertoire and broaden their understanding of students' needs in learning in English; providing teacher development course and onsite support to equip teachers with knowledge and skills in using applied theatre in English language teaching and learning, and building network and electronic platform as resources for long term support for the teaching and learning of English in secondary schools. A website with lesson plans and intranet system to support cross-school networking will be the project deliverables. There will be 50 participating schools and it is aniticipated that 4200 secondary school students and 2480 teachers will benefit from the project.
The project aims at introducing the concept of “World Ethic” to junior secondary and senior primary students for constructing the framework of Moral, Civic and National Education in Hong Kong. In the long run, this will bring about a structured school-based curriculum in Moral, Civic and National Education, and help schools to serve as a platform for contending against the distorted values in the society and enhance the quality of citizens. The project deliverables include a website with relevant information and teaching packages for senior primary and junior secondary students.
The project aims at supporting primary schools in Mathematics teaching by training Mathematics teachers and teacher leader and identifying students' learning difficulties through designing assessment in learning tools so as to effectively enhance teaching and learning. The project outcomes include Mathematics teaching plan and teaching packages, lesson plans, video clips of the 4 inter-school open lesson observations and lesson, research report on the outcome of the proposed project, and a website for uploading the video clips of the open lesson observations and other related information.