Enhancing pedagogy, cross-curricular collaboration, school curriculum and assessment
1. eLearning & PowerLesson: Lots of efforts have been put into promoting eLearning. First,
more subjects are encouraged to have lesson trials on eLearning, for instance, Biology,
Maths, Chinese, Integrated Science and Physics. Second, visits to the lessons of the
pioneering colleagues have been arranged to provide our teachers with an understanding of
the pedagogy. Third, a number of sharing sessions and lesson observations have been
conducted by the pioneering colleagues for teachers from other schools. For instance, our
colleagues have been invited to share on different occasions such as the Online Learning and
Teaching Association (OLTA) meetings and eClass Day. Fourth, close collaboration has
been established with BroadLearning, which serves as strong support to our eLearning
development. Fifth, IT training on the use of PowerLesson has been conducted. Sixth, the IT
working committee has visited United Christian College (Kowloon East), which is well-
known for eLearning. Further development and the possibility of launching BYOD have
been put on the agenda.
2. Promoting creative teaching strategies: Recently, with the collaboration between the
English and the Arts Education panels, creative teaching strategies have been employed in
the teaching of readers in English. Students enjoy the lessons very much and such trials
provide colleagues with valuable experience in terms of cross-subject collaboration.
3. Exploring self-directed learning (SDL): Being one of the popular learning strategies, the
SDL has been explored on staff development days. In addition, the Chinese panel has joined
a SDL program organized by the University of Hong Kong. The aim of the program is to
try out SDL in some Chinese lessons in S1.
4. Other teaching strategies: This year, more attention has been paid to pedagogy. Through a
series of workshops held on teachers’ collaboration days, teaching strategies such as ASK,
HOT, SRL, cooperative learning and eLearning have been introduced to colleagues, who are
encouraged to explore and try out the above-mentioned strategies wherever they think
appropriate and effective.
5. Promoting cross-curricular collaboration: Apart from the above-mentioned collaboration
on creative teaching, cross-curricular collaboration can be seen from the S5 Art Show. Based
on the reading passages learnt in English lessons, the S5 students have to write a script and
perform a play which involves skills acquired in drama lessons.
6. Optimizing curriculums: Two curriculum reforms have been introduced this year. First, the
separation of the S1-S2 social subjects has been put into practice. From this year onwards,
History and Geography are offered to S1 and S2 students as individual subjects. Such a
reform aims to strengthen the knowledge basis of the junior form students. Second, the junior