Partnerships Collaboration
Partnerships Collaboration (2023-24)
Partnerships Collaboration (2022-23)
Partnerships Collaboration (2021-22)
Partnerships Collaboration (2020-21)
Partnerships Collaboration (2023-24)
IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum 2023-24
The HKU IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum aims to provide a platform for IB Chinese language teachers to share their practices and learn from each other. The forum includes a series of webinars around various topics related to IB Chinese language teaching. Teachers and alumni are invited to share their practices and the Faculty welcome all teachers, students and alumni to join.
Same as the previous year, three Forums have been scheduled for each semester in 2023-24:
Semester 1: October, November and December 2023
Semester 2: March, April and May 2024
Partnerships Collaboration (2022-23)
IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum 2022-23
The HKU IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum aims to provide a platform for IB Chinese language teachers to share their practices and learn from each other. The forum includes a series of webinars around various topics related to IB Chinese language teaching. Teachers and alumni are invited to share their practices and the Faculty welcome all teachers, students and alumni to join.
In 2022-23, three Forums have been scheduled in each semester:
Semester 1: October, November and December 2022
Semester 2: February, March and April 2023
PGDE School Forum 2022-23
Forum 1 (7 Sep 2022)Session 1Topic: Why Teachers are more important now than ever
Session 2a (Kindergarten stream)Topic: 幼師入職你要知暨長洲幼稚園校本特色分享會
Session 2b (Primary stream)Topic: How do schools accommodate students from different backgrounds?
Session 2c (Secondary stream)Group 1 Topic: The Reasons for Becoming a Professional Teacher
Group 2 Topic: From the Journey of Becoming a Teacher to the Journey as a Teacher: Things to Ponder
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Forum 2 (14 Sep 2022)Session 1Topic: Nurturing diverse learners by understanding how they think and learn: some insights from our experience and practice
Session 2 - Parallel Interactive Group DiscussionTopic: My journey: Learning to be a Caring Cultivators of All-round Growth and Inspirational Co-constructors of Knowledge
Speakers (Awardees of The Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence [CEATE]): Ms Tse Pik Wan Grace, Fanling Kau Yan College Ms Tang Wan Ki, Fung Kai Innovative School Mr Fung Hon Yin, YCH Lim Por Yen Secondary School Mr Chik Man Fung, CCC Tam Lee Lai Fun Memorial Secondary School Mr Kan Wai Hung, Principal, HKTA The Yuen Yuen Institute No. 1 Secondary School Ms Yip Wai Ting Vashti, Sau Ming Primary School
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Forum 3 (21 Sep 2022)
Session 1Topic: Motivating Students to Learn
Session 2 - Panel discussionTopic: How to prepare yourself as a life-long holistic professional teacher? Panellists: • Mr Chu Kwok Wai, Phoenix • Miss Cheung Yat Ning, Sarah
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Partnerships Collaboration (2021-22)
Students as Partner: Live Streaming Hands-on Professional Development Workshop for Physics/STEM teachers (supported by QEF and EDB)
Supported by the Quality Education Fund (QEF), the Education Bureau (EDB) of the HKSAR Government, Ms Promail Leung, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Education, and 11 Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Science (BEdBSc) Physics major student-teachers have jointly organised two live-streaming online hands-on and minds-on teacher professional workshops on 16 and 17 Feb 2022, respectively. Around 60 Physics/ STEM school teachers participated in these meaningful events. To view the workshop video, please click here.
Below are the 11 BEd&BSc students who took part in the two workshops:
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Lo Chun Yip, Michael | Choi Sin Sum
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Ms Leung has been collaborating with student-teachers to upscale their innovative tech-infused assignments to Inquiry-based Physics Teaching Packages (PhyTP) since 2018. For this workshop, six PhyTP were produced to support Physics/STEM school teachers, which are suitable for both face-to-face and online teaching. These materials cover research-evident misconceptions or concepts that students often find difficult to understand. Each set of the materials contains a video with bilingual subtitles and a teacher’s manual for easy explanation to students (Fig 1). In addition, bilingual worksheets or handouts for students are included in most of the sets.
Fig 1 Teaching videos and user manual
Fig 2 Tangible teaching parts and instruction sheets
Crucial elements of the SaP workshop’s success included a firm belief that what both the Faculty of Education staff and student-teachers were doing would be meaningful and worthwhile for school pupils; their works were solidly grounded in the subject content. Having “Students as Partners” has clearly demonstrated that an effective partnership is a respectful, mutually beneficial learning journey and educational endeavours, despite the restrictions of the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong (e.g., school suspension, social distance and so on).
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This promising collaboration with student-teachers could significantly contribute to the improvement of higher education teaching and successful student learning. Although the process of partnering with students is complex and the impact of the successful partnership on teaching and learning was difficult to measure in general, tremendous benefits of student partnership have been observed from the student-teachers’ sharing such as the development of future skills (4Cs: collaboration, communication, creativity and critical thinking skills), positive mindsets and commitment to the teaching profession (e.g., teaching efficacy and teacher identity formation ).
We are proud of our students for their wonderful efforts and contribution to the community, especially during the fifth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that both teachers and students will benefit from utilising the teaching packages.
Students Sharing
IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum 2021-22
The HKU IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum aims to provide a platform for IB Chinese language teachers to share their practices and learn from each other. The forum includes a series of webinars around various topics related to IB Chinese language teaching. Teachers and alumni are invited to share their practices and the Faculty welcome all teachers, students and alumni to join.
In 2021-22, three Forums have been scheduled in each semester:
Semester 1: October, November and December 2021
Semester 2: February, March and April 2022
For details and registration, please refer to links below for more information.
PGDE School Forum 2021-22
Forum 1 (8 Sep 2021)Session 1Topic: Becoming a teacher in a VUCA 2.0 world
Session 2a (Kindergarten stream)Topic: 幼師入職你要知暨長洲幼稚園校本特色分享會
Session 2b (Primary stream)Topic: How do schools accommodate students from different backgrounds?
Session 2c (Secondary stream)Group 1 Topic: Becoming a Professional Teacher - Aims of Education, Curriculum and Schools
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Forum 2 (15 Sep 2021)Session 1Topic: Nurturing diverse learners by understanding how they think and learn: some insights from our experience and practice
Session 2 - Parallel Interactive Group DiscussionTopic: My journey: Learning to be a Caring Cultivators of All-round Growth and Inspirational Co-constructors of Knowledge
Speakers (Awardees of The Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence [CEATE]):
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Forum 3 (23 Sep 2021)
Session 1Topic: Motivating Students to Learn
Session 2 - Panel discussionTopic: How to prepare yourself as a life-long holistic professional teacher? Panellists:
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Partnerships Collaboration (2020-21)
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Co-Creating Online English Radio Drama for Secondary School Students
Under COVID-19 pandemic, interactive activities have been suspended. Our Faculty not only focused on our students’ development but we would also like to give back to the community. The School-University Partnerships Workshop - Co-Creating Online English Radio Drama for Secondary School Students aimed to enhance Secondary School students learning motivation and further explored their interests in radio drama. On the other hand, participants of the workshop were able to:
- learn how participation in online radio drama activities would enable their students to use and sharpen their English language skills as well as their creative and collaborative abilities;
- participate in a ‘walk-through’ of the process of creating and performing radio drama via an online platform
- reflect on how this process may be adapted and fine-tuned so as to develop a school-based online radio drama in their own professional setting.
This online workshop was held on 4 Aug 2021 for 30 in-service English teachers which lead by workshop leader, Ms Tanya Kempton, TELL Unit, Faculty of Education, HKU. If you are interested in this programme, please visit the website via link below for more information.
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School-University Partnerships Workshop (Science): Collaborative learning of Science teachers through School-University Partnerships
The workshop was held online on 15 May 2021. The workshop aimed to facilitate professional learning opportunities for both the mentor teachers and the mentees. Forty participants (including in-service Science teachers and students) attended the workshop online.
IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum 2020-21
The HKU IB Chinese Language Teaching Professional Forum aims to provide a platform for IB Chinese language teachers to share their practices and learn from each other. The forum includes a series of webinars around various topics related to IB Chinese language teaching. Teachers and alumni are invited to share their practices and the Faculty welcome all teachers, students and alumni to join.
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Science/Physics Teaching Enrichment Workshop held to facilitate professional dialogue
To promote professional dialogue of Science/Physics teaching and learning, an interactive workshop was co-organised by the Faculty’s School-University Partnership Office and Ms. Promail Leung, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty’s Academic Unit of Teacher Education and Learning Leadership, on 24 Oct 2020. The workshop aimed at broadening and deepening our relationships with schools and teachers through teachers’ professional development activities. A total of 30 participants, including both in- and pre-service teachers and officials from the Education Bureau took part in the workshop.
The workshop was hosted by Ms Leung with two in-service teachers as guest speakers, who shared their vivid teaching experiences in Science and STEM Education. Mr Roy Sin from Yuen Long Merchants Association Secondary School demonstrated his interest in promoting techniques and exemplars in Integrated Science and Physics subjects, whereas Ms Emily Cheung from Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School shared her 40-year teaching philosophy in promoting science education.
Participants were inspired by the speakers’ student-centred lesson design. Professional dialogue among teaching and learning was also promoted during the workshop.