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Pilot Project - The Law-related Education With initial seeding money from the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd), we started a pilot scheme on a similar topic: Law-related Education Project in September 2007 with three participating secondary schools.
Some implications can be drawn after explicit investigation. Basically, problems that the pilot schools are facing are: - Teachers are lacking professional legal knowledge, in particular the Basic Law and our legal system, both in their school days and in their professional training. It is observed that concepts they taught were sometimes incorrect and they failed to answer/explain students' questions.
- Teachers have difficulties in finding law-related and human rights-related teaching materials and identifying useful issues for issue-based teaching.
- Teachers are under heavy workload that they do not have enough time to prepare the lesson, especially for this 'new' content. It affects their quality of teaching.
- It is hard to assess whether students can fully understand the content.
The observations reflect the potential challenges which teachers and schools will face in teaching the new curriculum. To clear the obstacles and prepare for the new curriculum, the most efficient way is to train the trainers: equip teachers with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to include law-related topics in the curricula; to infuse the study of the Basic Law into the teacher education programs and existing curricula. |
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