Academic Areas

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Teaching and Learning Programmes

Educational Management and Change

A range of modules related to educational management and change are offered in various in-service courses for primary and secondary school teachers. These modules prepare teachers for the leadership and management aspects of the teaching role and to take up management roles in schools. Also, the Understanding Hong Kong Educational Context module is provided to prospective teachers to inform them about the education system and educational change. Members of the department also contribute to the development of school-based management and quality education in Hong Kong by supporting staff development programmes in local schools.

Guidance and Counselling

This programme area offers modules like Life skills, Productive Human Relationships in Schools and Guidance and Counselling to assist prospective and inservice teachers in becoming fully functioning persons that are able to establish positive relationships with school children and perform guidance duties in schools.

This discipline has the broad aims of introducing students to different guidance and counselling perspectives and enhancing their competence in performing the roles and functions of school teachers. With these aims in mind, there are several specific areas which the discipline emphasizes: (1) counselling process and practice, (2) micro-counselling skills, (3) crisis intervention strategies, (4) whole-school approach to guidance, (5) home-school cooperation, (6) strategies for working with parents, and (7) implementation and evaluation of developmental guidance programmes (e.g. pupils' self-understanding, academic success and transitional adjustion, social relations).

Personal and Social Education

Modules in Personal and Social Education are offered in various preservice and inservice teacher education courses in the Institute, preparing teachers for the implementation of cross-curricular initiatives like civic education, moral education, sex education, environmental education, drug education, affective education and class teacher duties. These initiatives promote the personal and social development of school children.