230 participants from the sixty project schools of the “Support Programme on fostering Communities of Practice to enhance small class teaching” in 2018-2019 attended the Thematic Workshops organized by the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) on 15 September, 2018.
The whole-day workshop started with the Welcome Speech by Dr. KO Po Yuk, the Director of CELT, followed by the introduction of the concept and rationale of small class teaching by Ms. Jannie TSANG and Ms. LEUNG Kit Yan. Four thematic parallel sessions were then conducted namely “Self-regulated learning” conducted by Professor CHIU Chi Shing, Honorary Advisor of CELT, “E-learning” conducted by Ms. Jannie TSANG and Ms. LEUNG Kit Yan, “Use of integrated curriculum approaches to analyze school-based STEM curriculum development” conducted by Mr. WONG Chi Kin and “STEM, Coding and Maker teaching” conducted by Dr. Angus CHAN.
Parallel case-sharing sessions on the four core subjects (Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics, and General Studies) were held in the afternoon to show good practices on how the four different themes could be incorporated into the pedagogical design to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness in small class setting.
A meeting between the teachers of the cluster schools and their respective tutors was held after the case-sharing sessions for exchanging views and having an initial understanding of the needs of the participating schools. The participants found the workshops inspiring and fruitful.
