Curriculum Leadership Development (CLD) Programme Year-end Celebration and Workshop on Evaluation & Planning of the English Subject

Date :

27 June 2018 (Wednesday)

Time :

Experience Sharing: 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Workshop: 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Place :

WP01, EDB Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, 19 Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Objectives of the Sharing Session :

• To celebrate participants' achievements in promoting the development of the English subject in their schools

• To enhance participants' capability of using data and evidence to evaluate work effectiveness and promote continuous self-improvement

Objectives of the Workshop :

Through exploring the topic 'Evaluation and Planning of the English Subject', we aimed to develop the following curriculum leadership capabilities among participants:

• using data effectively to identify the development focuses of the English subject

• proposing concrete and workable actions for effective implementation of the subject plan

• establishing monitoring and/or evaluation mechanisms to ensure the subject plan can be implemented successfully

• using resources effectively and/or strategically to enhance implementation of the subject plan

9:30 am - 9:45 am

9:45 am - 12:00 pm

7 participating schools shared their achievements in 2017/18 with support data and evidence, the facilitating factors and ways to sustaining the achievements.

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

• Importance of EPIE to a curriculum leader in leading the team to build on the past and prepare for the future

• Effective use of data in the EPIE process of curriculum development

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm

• Importance of conducting ongoing evaluation

• Use of SWOT and KISS to identify development focuses and set priorities

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

• Identifying targets through using data

• Identifying concrete measures which align closely with the targets set

• Defining success criteria (realistic, concrete, achievable, measurable and aligning with the objectives/ targets)

• Establishing monitoring and/or evaluation mechanisms by using relevant evaluation methods and tools and stating the timeline for different tasks

• Using resources e.g. time, human resources, teaching resources effectively and strategically to facilitate the implementation of the plan

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Discussion:

• What can the panel head do to sustain the subject plan?

• What monitoring and evaluating measures can be set?

• How to use resources (esp. human) effectively and strategically?

• How to help the panel members see the importance of the subject plan? On what occasions can the subject plan be shared?

Role play:

• Role playing a scene of a panel meeting to show how the panel head could help the members translate the subject plan into successful actions

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

• Preparing a subject plan is a strategic task to involve members in a change process

• Engaging panel members in the EPIE cycle so that different curriculum leadership capabilities can be developed through the EPIE process

• Using data effectively throughout the year to create urgency and to conduct evaluation