USP-PROS 1: Teacher Professional Development Courses on teaching Chinese for Non-Chinese Speaking Students (Module 1)

Date: 26/11/2011

USP-PROS 1: Teacher Professional Development Courses on teaching Chinese for Non-Chinese Speaking Students

A series of Culturally Responsive Professional Development (PD) Programme has been implemented to enhance and strengthen teachers’ professional capacity and their teaching effectiveness of teaching Chinese to NCS students. Instead of single seminars, each unit in the PD programme is consisting of around 4 sessions plus follow-up session(s) on a focused topic. Teacher participants in the PD programme will be required to apply what they gain in the programmes to their schools and classrooms to develop good practice, and to share this practice over one to two months after the lectures and workshops. Knowledge would be generated from the Professional Development (PD) programme.

The first round of six modules was completed in 2011/12 with 70+ teachers enrolled. Topics include: 中小銜接 (Transition from primary to secondary level) 閱讀DIY (Reading literacy) 照顧差異 (Catering for students learning diversity) 高階說聽 (High-order speaking and listening) 學習任務 (Task-based learning approach) 多元學習經歷 (Multi-learning experiential learning)

Instructors mainly are: Dr. W M Cheung, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU Dr. JWI Lam, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU Mr. SY Hui, Teaching Consultant, Faculty of Education, HKU Some in-service teachers and experts were also invited to share their authentic instructional practices as well as their experience.

(left) Dr. WM Cheung, one of the core instructors of Teacher Professional Development Courses. (right) Mr. SY Hui, one of the core instructors of Teacher Professional Development Courses. Participating teachers are required to design a teaching plan that is able to apply the theoretical framework taught in the Course and then put it into authentic lessons. Then, they have to share the experience after this practice in the next session.

For more details of PROS, please visit the website: http://usp.cacler.hku.hk/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7&Itemid=9

This series of Courses is part of the services of ‘University-School Support Programme: Supporting Secondary Schools in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese for non-native learners (2011-13)’. This project aims 1) to improve on the learning & teaching (L/T) effectiveness of Chinese Language for NCS students in both designated and non-designated schools in Hong Kong; 2) to enhance the capability of teachers in the L/T of Chinese Language for NCS students by nurturing them as curriculum leaders, facilitators of learning and action researchers in schools; and 3) to enlighten the education community of Hong Kong on the theory and practices adopted for the L/T of the Chinese Language for NCS students. This two-year project, funded by Education Development Fund of Education Bureau, is led by Dr. JWI Lam and the co-investigators include Prof. SK Tse, Dr. WW Ki, Dr. WM Cheung, Dr. MSK Shum, Dr. EKY Loh, Ms. AWM Poon et al.

For more details of this USP project, please visit the website: http://usp.cacler.hku.hk/

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