Developing students' lifelong learning capability through the promotion of e-learning, life planning and Reading across the Curriculum

Date :

4 July 2016

Time :

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Place :

Lecture Theatre, 4/F, West Block, Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, Kowloon Tong

Aims of Activity :

To share good practices on how to:

• help students understand themselves and their academic or career aspirations through life planning and life-wide learning activities;

• develop students' reading to learn and self-directed learning through a cross key stage RaC buddy reading programme; and

• engage students in active and deep learning through flipping the classroom.

Presenters :

• The Salvation Army William Booth Secondary School

• TWGHs Mrs. Fung Wong Fung Ting College

• Carmel Divine Grace Foundation Secondary School

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Developing students as lifelong learners is one of our key educational goals. To achieve this goal, schools have made use of different curriculum initiatives such as e-learning, life planning and Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) as levers to nurture learning to learn capabilities and positive values and attitudes among their students. Schools with different contexts implement those initiatives to meet the specific needs of their students.

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

Teachers of The Salvation Army William Booth Secondary School shared how various life-wide learning activities could boost students' learning motivation of English and widen their exposure to different workplaces. Students understood themselves better and found that the learning experiences could help them make informed decisions about their future careers.

03:00 pm - 03:15 pm

03:15 pm - 04:00 pm

Teachers of TWGHs Mrs. Fung Wong Fung Ting College shared their experience of how to teach students various skills such as reading to learn, problem solving and critical thinking skills through a Reading across the Curriculum buddy reading programme. Both tutors and tutees benefited a great deal from the programme.

04:00 pm - 04:45 pm

Teachers of Carmel Divine Grace Foundation Secondary School shared how they infused active learning and higher-order thinking activities into their flipped S4 drama classroom before, during and after lessons. Since students had learnt the lesson content before they came to class, the time originally spent on unidirectional teaching in class could be freed up for them to engage in various collaborative and creative learning activities. e-Learning tools were infused into the implementation of this module to enhance the effectiveness of students' learning.

04:45 pm - 05:00 pm