In the academic year of 2021/22, the Education Bureau has entrusted the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CELT) of the Education University of Hong Kong to organize a series of “Professional Development Workshops on Small Class Teaching”. The emphasis on both theory and practice is the unique feature of the workshops for effective integration of the six basic principles of small class teaching in the four core subjects and optimizing the instructional design of three teaching themes “Self-regulated learning, “e-learning”, and “STEM education”. The teacher participants have been allocated into four different groups according to their subjects taught. The workshop consists of a total of fifteen hours with five sessions of three hours for each session. The aims of the professional workshop are to help the practicing teachers understand the six basic principles of small class teaching and keep abreast of teaching innovations so as to apply them in designing appropriate and effective teaching strategies for facilitating learning of the three selected themes in a small class context. The workshop provides an opportunity for the teacher participants to reflect on their teaching through practice as well as enhances their awareness of the current development in education.
