The practices of pre and post-lesson conferencing, when conducted in Hong Kong , will inevitably reflect the Hong Kong curriculum context. Questions about what pupils should learn, the teaching methods used and whether pupils are learning anything worthwhile (considered in other Units of this pack), must be responsive to that context, particularly the current Hong Kong education reforms. This includes, the new Key Learning Areas (KLAs), the emphasis on moving from passive to active learning, the development of creative thinking and the integration of values and attitudes across the curriculum.

In this Unit, we will be considering some of these issues as they arise in a pre-lesson conference, the observed lesson and the post-lesson conference of a Chinese Language lesson.

The video for this Unit provides the opportunity to view the three stages of the teaching and conferencing cycle, (pre-lesson conference, the lesson, and the post-lesson conference) as a continuous whole. The Unit is therefore different from other Units, in that it uses only one lesson as the source for the four activities.