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The Language Teaching Album (2011-2013): A Collection of School-based Practices

Title: The Language Teaching Album (2011-2013): A Collection of School-based Practices

Date: February 2014

Pages: 342

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Contents

I. Foreword
 
II. Unlocking the black box of our language classrooms
 
III. School-based experiences in Chinese Language Education
 
IV. Photo Gallery
 
V. School-based experiences in English Language Education

  
  Supporting holistic planning of the English Language curriculum
 
  • 5.1 Overview

  • 5.2 Developing students into competent and confident readers through holistic curriculum planning

  • 5.3 Effective teaching of writing through improved design of writing tasks

  • 5.4 Effective use of stories to make learning fun and engaging

  • 5.5 Engaging students in grammar learning activities and tasks in task-based learning

  • 5.6 Stretching students’ potential by creating greater flexibility in the curriculum

  • 5.7 Challenging students to think and discuss critically through News Circles

  • 5.8 Infusing thinking skills and values into task-based units in the Compulsory Part: An alternative approach to prepare students at senior secondary level to meet the demands of the HKDSE
  Supporting transition across key stages
 
  • 5.9 Overview

  • 5.10 Promoting the teaching of non-fiction texts in KS2 so as to help students meet the challenge in secondary education

  • 5.11 Widening the choice of texts and developing the integrative use of skills among senior primary students

  • 5.12 Use of newspaper and feature articles at junior secondary level for effective learning of the Social Issues elective module and Liberal Studies

  • 5.13 Planning progressively for interface in the NSS: Integrating material from the elective modules into the junior secondary curriculum
  Supporting students’ learning through the medium of English
 
  • 5.14 Overview

  • 5.15 Language Across the Curriculum: Application of English language skills in other Key Learning Areas

  • 5.16 Scaffolding: The key to learning content subjects through English effectively

  • 5.17 Equipping curriculum leaders to support whole-school implementation of Language Across the Curriculum (LAC)
  Supporting teacher development
 
  • 5.18 Overview

  • 5.19 Developing curriculum leadership through the promotion of independent learning

  • 5.20 Developing curriculum leadership skills through preparing and implementing the subject development plan

  • 5.21 Capacity building and curriculum leadership development through inter-school learning communities

  • 5.22 Fostering the long term development of the English subject through strategic use of human talents and high learning value programmes

  • 5.23 Cheung Chau Learning Circle: A case of a district network supporting teacher professional development
 
VI. Growing up with the LLSS