Addressing Teachers’ Professional Development Needs English Language Education Saturday Seminar Series The Department of English Language Education presented a series of Saturday seminars for English teachers and subject teachers of both primary and secondary schools between 17 November and 15 December 2012. The seminars aimed to enhance teachers’ professional development in areas relating to language in learning, strategies of using English as a medium of instruction, curriculum development beyond NSS and strategies to cater for learner diversity. The seminars also provided a channel for the department to introduce different professional development programmes (PDPs) to teachers after they had had a taste of the issues of the topics presented. These 3-hour seminars held on Saturday mornings at the HKIEd Tai Po Campus were well attended. They attracted an application of more than 450 teachers and post-seminar comments were highly positive. The following is a summary of the seminars offered: Department & Centre Highlights For more information about ELE, please visit http://www.ied.edu.hk/ele Date Topic Speaker 2012/11/17 Strategies that Work: An Introduction to Using English as the Medium of Instruction in Hong Kong Schools Dr. Paul Stapleton and Dr. John Trent 2012/11/24 Understanding and Catering for Learner Differences Dr. Timothy Taylor 2012/12/1 Strategies for Planning and Teaching Science Using English as the Medium of Instruction Dr. Stella Kong 2012/12/1 Strategies for Planning and Teaching Mathematics Using English as the Medium of Instruction Dr. Elizabeth Walker 2012/12/8 Beyond NSS: What Can Teachers Do? Dr. Ruth Wong 2012/12/15 Preparing Primary Students for EMI Secondary Education Dr. Stella Kong 9 Faculty of Humanities FHM Newsletter Issue1
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