Learning in Action : Teach to Learn – Learn to Teach Seminar 2011

Program outline of "Learning in Action: Teach to Learn - Learn to Teach" Seminar  

Session I Session II

 "Learning in Action: Teach to Learn - Learn to Teach" Seminar

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C01  An inquiry into the relations between 'skills transfer' and the 'Schematic Structure'  instructional approach that integrates  reading with writing  at P.3 and P.4

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C02  How to assess and give feedback on students' ability in content selection and cohesion making in writing sentences, group of sentences and paragraphs? 

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C03 Enhancing the writing ability of students through introducing a new writing curriculum in P.2

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C04  Love to think – free to talk – dare to write: maximising the advantages of small class in the teaching of writing at key stage 1

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C05  Strengthening the reading ability of primary one students through reading aloud in class
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E01  Nurturing our students to be competent presenters
For some people, speaking is considered to be the most pivotal language skill. The underpinning conception is that majority of people use speech a lot more frequently than writing and reading to accomplish interactive communication in everyday life. ……<Please click here for details>

E02  From quantity to quality: Kei Tsz's road in helping students to improve their English writing
Do the above scenes look familiar to you? Poor student performance in the P.3 TSA writing assessment was one of the big problems that the English teachers of CCC Kei Tsz Primary School faced several years ago. The problem was aggregated by students' poor attitude. Some of them thought that they could not write at all. To get to the root of the problem, teachers talked to the students and found that many of them did not know what to write. ……<Please click here for details>  

E03  Walk our talks: using classroom assessment to inform learning and teaching
It was reported that teachers usually see assessment, teaching and learning as three separate entities. It was a common practice for teaches to use summative assessments in the form of tests and examinations to find out the learning performance of students. Classroom formative assessment to inform teaching and learning was seldom used in the lessons observed in the past few years. ……<Please click here for details> 

E04   Working together: an experience sharing on incorporating group discussions into the General English Programme
In the sharing session conducted in 2009 on 'Working together: Necessary conditions for productive group work ', teachers were brought to an understanding of the necessary
conditions for students to talk fluently while they were on group tasks. The conditions are: awareness, appropriation and autonomy. With the implementation of small class teaching this year, teachers have expressed the need for more examples of group learning in Key Stage One.
Such a concern is common to many language teachers. Working in collaboration with English language teachers in some local primary schools this year, we have generated more examples on how to plan and implement group discussions as part of the General English curriculum
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M03  Using inquiry activities in the teaching of perpendicular lines, parallel lines and parallelograms in Primary 3 

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M07 How to get connected? －the teaching of basic multiplication in P.2

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M09  From understanding the relation between decimal numbers, fractions and percentages to solving application problems about percentages

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GS03  Making connection between the generic skills in Primary General Studies and in Secondary Liberal Studies
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