| SFSU Summer course 2012 |
| Since 2007, CACLER has collaborated with the College of Education of San Francisco State University in running the summer programme: “Training Teachers for the Future: Transnational Educational Issues”. Due to the success of past collaborations, this is the forth round that CACLER was re-invited to co-organize this programme again this summer. Fifteen US students from San Francisco State University joined this summer course to gain an exposure to the practices of education in Hong Kong and China and to develop a better understanding of Chinese and other Asian diasporas. The course provides a week of coursework and classroom observation in Hong Kong (May 28 to June 1), culminating in a week of intensive classroom observation and study in classrooms in Guangdong Province (June 3 to 8). |
| The program mainly included lectures and school visits. The topics of lectures are: “Hong Kong Educational System-Bands” (delivered by Dr. C. K. Cheung, HKU), “Awareness of Chinese Characters” (delivered by Dr. E.K.Y. Loh, HKU), “Recent Historical & Educational Developments in China – Immigrants and Minorities” (delivered by Prof. G.A. Postiglione, HKU) and “Struggles and Survival of Hong Kong Minorities” (delivered by Ms. Fermi Wong, HK UNISON). We would like to express our sincere thankfulness to the above speakers for their great talks and sharing. We would also like to thank you the four schools receiving these US guests for school visit and classroom observation. They include Renaissance College, PLK Madam Chan Wai Chow Memorial Primary School, Delia Memorial School (Broadway) and CMA Choi Cheung Kok Secondary School. |
| We do treasure the interactions and intercultural exchange within this summer course and we look forward to have further collaboration with SFSU in the coming years! |
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Group photo with US teachers with Prof. S.K. Tse on their first day of arrival. |
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The US teachers joined a lesson observation at a local primary school. |
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The participants did enjoy the workshop on Awareness of Chinese Characters conducted by Dr. EKY Loh. |
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The US participants interacted with secondary students and their teachers during school visits. |