Curriculum Leadership Development (CLD) Programme for English teachers - Experience sharing on subject plan writing & how to conduct inter-school lesson visits(Morning Session)

Date :

17 October 2014

Time :

9:45 am - 12:00 pm

Place :

E303, East Block, Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre

Aims of Activity :

• To provide a platform for participants of the CLD Programme to share their experience in writing up a plan, the difficulties or challenges encountered and possible solutions

• To inform the CLD participants of the objectives, expectations and arrangements of the inter-school visits

Participating schools :

• Buddhist Wong Cheuk Um Primary School

• Chinese YMCA Primary School

• SKH Kowloon Bay Kei Lok Primary School

• Shatin Tsung Tsin School

• The Evangelical Lutheran Church Of Hong Kong Kwai Shing Lutheran Primary School

• TWGHs Mrs. Fung Wong Fung Ting College

• Shun Tak Fraternal Association Seaward Woo College

• St. Joseph's College

• Mu Kuang English School

• Charitable Foundation Ma Ko Pan Memorial College

10:00 am - 11:00 am

9 CLD schools took turns to share with the other schools one of the objectives of the English Department, strategies they would adopt and the evaluation methods. The objectives they shared included how to enrich the English environment, implement self-directed/ independent learning and reading to learn, promote healthy & balanced development among students and enhance professional capacity of teachers.

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Teachers were informed of the objectives, expectations and the professional and administrative arrangements of the inter-school lesson observation activities.

Curriculum Leadership Development (CLD) Programme for English teachers - Experience sharing on subject plan writing & how to conduct inter-school lesson visits(Afternoon Session)

Date :

17 October 2014

Time :

1:45 pm - 4:45 pm

Place :

E303, East Block, Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre

Aims of Activity :

By the end of this workshop, participants will learn:

• how to use different lesson observation tools to collect evidence to improve student learning

• how to prepare for lesson observation and give quality feedback

• how curriculum leadership capabilities can be developed through lesson observation tasks

Participating schools :

• Buddhist Wong Cheuk Um Primary School

• Chinese YMCA Primary School

• SKH Kowloon Bay Kei Lok Primary School

• Shatin Tsung Tsin School

• The Evangelical Lutheran Church Of Hong Kong Kwai Shing Lutheran Primary School

• TWGHs Mrs. Fung Wong Fung Ting College

• Shun Tak Fraternal Association Seaward Woo College

• St. Joseph's College

• Mu Kuang English School

• Charitable Foundation Ma Ko Pan Memorial College

• Carmel Leung Sing Tak School

• HKTAWT Ng Lai Wo Memorial School

• Kam Tin Mung Yeung Public School

• ELCHK Lutheran Secondary School

2:00 pm - 2:25 pm

• The purpose of lesson observation can be for both appraisal and teacher professional growth

• Well-designed lesson observation tools can help us collect useful data about how students learn

• Lesson observation needs to be well-planned in order for teachers to give constructive feedback

2:25 pm - 3:10 pm

• Different tools can be used to collect evidence to improve students' learning

• Tools can help us collect quantitative and/or qualitative data

3:10 pm - 3:25 pm

3:25 pm - 4:00 pm

• Good preparation needs to be done at pre-, while- and post- stages of lesson observations

• A protocol can be used to guide the post-observation discussion

• Feedback should be focused, analytical, evidence-based and practicable

4:05 pm - 4:25 pm

Teachers reflected on what they have learned in the workshop and how these were related with the curriculum leadership capabilities.

4:25 pm - 4:45 pm

• Lesson observation provides an opportunity for teachers to conduct critical enquiry into language teaching

• Different lesson observation tools can be used for different data collection purposes

• Good preparation is important in order to enable both the observers and the observed to benefit most from the lesson observation activity