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The Curriculum Development Institute (CDI) of the Education Bureau will provide about 700 Professional Development Programmes (PDPs) in the 2010/11 school year to cater for the needs of around 60,000 school heads and teachers of secondary and primary schools and pre-primary institutions in Hong Kong in implementing the curriculum reform to promote effective learning of students.
As informed by the Survey on the Curriculum Reform in 2008, the feedback collected through various channels and changing needs, the PDPs to be offered in the 2010/11 school year will cover themes that are given priority in the curriculum reform (such as promoting language and reading across the curriculum, catering for learner diversity, generic skills, using IT for interactive learning, managing curriculum interface issues, using assessment data effectively for holistic learning). Several series of thematic programmes related to Moral and Civic Education (e.g. "How to develop Students' Care for the Schools and Community") and National Education (e.g. "Guangdong - Hong Kong Integration") will also be organised to sustain and deepen the positive impact of curriculum reform in schools.
For primary schools and pre-primary institutions, the bureau has particularly strengthened the programmes on sharpening teachers' understanding and mastery of curriculum planning, implementation and evaluation, as well as consolidation of teachers' mastery of effective learning, teaching and assessment strategies to enhance students' development and learning. These PDPs will provide necessary knowledge and skills that facilitate school-based curriculum development.
For secondary schools, the programmes will focus more on interface with the New Senior Secondary (NSS) curriculum, especially on understanding and interpreting the curricula, assessing student learning, learning and teaching strategies as well as enriching knowledge. These PDPs will prepare schools for successful implementation of the NSS curriculum.
The PDPs have always been well received by schools as they help schools to plan their annual whole-school development plans as well as individual teachers' staff development plans. They support teachers and schools to sustain reform in basic education and to better implement the NSS curriculum.
Information on student activities provided by different organisations is also appended to facilitate early planning of student learning activities related to Key Learning Areas and Life-wide Learning in schools so as to achieve the learning goals set out by schools.
The overview of the PDPs and student activities for the 2010/11 school year can be accessed on the CDI websites (www.edb.gov.hk/cd/pdp/sec) and (www.edb.gov.hk/cd/pdp/pri) for secondary and primary programmes respectively. The printed version in the form of booklets will soon be delivered to schools. The web version of the PDPs for heads and teachers of pre-primary institutions is available at the website: (www.edb.gov.hk/cd/pdp/kg).
Further details of the PDPs will be uploaded by stages onto the Training Calendar System of the Education Bureau (http://tcs.edb.gov.hk).
Ends/Thursday, July 1, 2010
Issued at HKT 15:31
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