Teacher: Mr Louis Lo

Information about expertise: Mr Louis Lo, the English Panel Chairperson of St Clare's Girls' School, has substantial experience in infusing the latest curriculum initiatives into his school's English Language curriculum. The experiences he shared on different occasions have provided secondary English Language teachers with good examples of how to organically integrate Reading across the Curriculum and values education (including Media and Information Literary) into English learning and teaching. In addition, Mr Lo has led his team to enhancing students' literacy skills and higher-order thinking skills, and fostering their whole-person development through the use of varied frameworks and strategies.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2023/24

Good practices:

• Sharpening high-flyers' writing and thinking skills in the assessment and feedback processes (2020-2022)

• Supporting students' learning through Reading across the Curriculum (2022-2024)

School: St Clare's Girls' School

School telephone number: 2817 1764

Teacher: Mr Andrew Law

Information about expertise: Mr Law, English Panel Chairperson of Islamic Dharwood Pau Memorial Primary School, is a dedicated teacher who excels in embracing student diversity, particularly in terms of their ethnic and cultural backgrounds, in the English classroom. His expertise also lies in promoting values education through diversified strategies, including organically integrating the priority values into suitable teaching modules, seamlessly weaving elements of Chinese culture into English Language learning and teaching, and employing interactive teaching strategies to enhance student engagement in value-related activities. His teacher team has been fostering different proper values in students while at the same time helping them develop their English proficiency.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2023/24

Good practices: Promoting values education through embracing student diversity: From respect for others to respect for Chinese and other cultures

School: Islamic Dharwood Pau Memorial Primary School

School telephone number: 2320 1300

Teacher: Mr Manfred Lee

Information about expertise: Mr Manfred Lee is the Deputy Head of Learning and Teaching Committee of Kowloon True Light School. His professional expertise includes e-learning, self-directed learning, assessment literacy, and English debating. Mr Lee served as a panel head in his previous school, demonstrating sound knowledge and skills in curriculum planning. Making good use of a comprehensive HKDSE question analysis, he shared effective strategies to cater for learner diversity and enhance students' English reading skills by opening his class in an inter-school learning network. He also demonstrated how e-learning could facilitate learning, teaching and assessment by sharing some practical language learning apps in the open lesson. Additionally, Mr Lee has shared some useful strategies for blended learning and catering for learner diversity at a university event, disseminating his good practices to other schools.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2023/24

School: Kowloon True Light School

School telephone number: 3655 0000

Teacher:  Ms Crystal Zheng

Information about expertise:  Ms Crystal Zheng, English Panel Chairperson of Kau Yan College, led her team to revamp the English Language subject with space created by lesson reduction in the optimisation of the senior secondary core subjects. Students were provided with opportunities for academic and creative use of English with the infusion of the elective module Learning English through Poems and Songs into the compulsory part whilst practising e-learning and self-directed learning. In the process, they also developed student autonomy through setting goals, evaluating, monitoring and regulating their own learning.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  Kau Yan College

School telephone number:  2660 8308

Teacher:  Ms Ellen Hui

Information about expertise:  Ms Hui is experienced in cultivating students' positive values and attitudes through the learning and teaching of reading. In her capacity as the English Panel Chair of St. Mary's Canossian School, Ms Hui was able to engage and enable her colleagues to strengthen values education through optimising their school reading curriculum. This involved: guiding students to read and explore a variety of value-laden issues, nurturing students' reading and higher-order thinking skills, and engaging students in multifarious value-related learning experiences.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2022/23

Good practices:  Cultivating positive values for leaders of tomorrow through strengthening cross-curricular learning and reading across the curriculum

School:  St Mary's Canossian School

School telephone number:  2368 4204

Teacher:  Mr Jacky Hung

Information about expertise:  Mr. Jacky Hung, the English Panel Chairperson of Tin Shui Wai Government Primary School, is an experienced educator committed to nurturing students' positive values and attitudes through enriching the English Language curriculum. By including lessons on positive values and attitudes as a core component of the existing writing programme, Mr. Hung provides students with meaningful opportunities to apply their learning to real-world contexts. He employs strategies like aligning textbook themes with relevant values, and using life events and personal stories as springboards for writing assignments. Through his innovative and holistic approach, Mr. Hung has successfully enabled students to develop positive values and attitudes while improving their writing abilities.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2022/23

Good practices:  Cross-Border Exchange: P4 English Lesson Observation on Chinese Culture & National Identity for Professional Growth (2022/2023)

School:  Tin Shui Wai Government Primary School

School telephone number:  2447 4288

Teacher:  Ms Raven Kwok

Information about expertise:  Ms Raven Kwok, English teacher of Buddhist Yip Kei Nam Memorial College, utilises effective strategies to cater for her students' diverse abilities, interests, and learning styles through engaging them in authentic and purposeful learning tasks and activities. Furthermore, she possesses considerable expertise in using e-learning to stimulate her students' interest in learning English, enhance their language abilities, and foster their capacity for self-directed learning.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2022/23

School:  Buddhist Yip Kei Nam Memorial College

School telephone number:  2495 3363

Teacher:  Mr Daniel Ng

Information about expertise:  Mr Daniel Ng, English Panel Chairperson of The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union Logos Academy is committed to promoting effective learning and teaching practices. He demonstrates his dedication by employing a variety of pedagogical strategies such as using e-learning tools, providing valuable feedback, and adopting the cooperative learning approach to catering for the diverse needs of students and offering them ample opportunities to interact in English and improve their confidence, fluency, and accuracy in the language.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2022/23

School:  The Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union Logos Academy

School telephone number:  2337 2123

Teacher:  Mr Michael Wong

Information about expertise:  Mr Michael Wong, English Panel Chairperson of Concordia Lutheran School has a wealth of experience in utilising e-learning to foster self-directed learning among students, enhance their language proficiency, and accommodate learner diversity. Furthermore, he has demonstrated proficiency in promoting values education by holistically integrating national security education elements into the school English Language curriculum and employing a diverse range of meaningful strategies and activities both within and outside the classroom.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2022/23

School:  Concordia Lutheran School

School telephone number:  2380 8837

Teacher:  Mr Barny Lam

Information about expertise:  Mr Barny Lam, English Panel Chairperson of Ying Wa College, possesses substantial experience in adopting assessment as learning practices to develop students’ self-directed learning and sharpen their reading and writing skills. He is also competent in catering for the diverse needs of students, especially stretching the potentials of the high achievers through engaging them in a variety of meaningful and challenging activities.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  Ying Wa College

School telephone number:  2336 8838

Teacher:  Ms Candice Ngai

Information about expertise:  Ms Candice Ngai, English Panel Chairperson of Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) Primary School, is experienced in incorporating self-directed learning into the school-based curriculum and providing opportunities for students to apply what they have learnt in meaningful contexts both within and outside class time.

She and her team focused on enriching their P3 students’ vocabulary through explicit teaching of various self-directed vocabulary learning strategies. At the end of the school year, they organised the Vocabulary Challenge, an English co-curricular activity, for the students to review and apply the target vocabulary and self-directed vocabulary learning skills in an enjoyable way.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) Primary School

School telephone number:  2711 6278

Teacher:  Ms Jessica Lo

Information about expertise:  Ms Jessica Lo, English Panel Head of St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, is experienced in infusing values education into the school-based reading curriculum. Ms Lo has been guiding students through “reading within the text” and “reading beyond the text” to develop not only students’ reading skills such as locating specific information and reading between the lines, but also the positive values and attitudes embedded in the text. In promoting values education, she is good at using a life event approach to supporting students to achieve whole-person development.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School

School telephone number:  2389 0428

Teacher:  Ms Hilary Chan

Information about expertise:  Ms Hilary Chan of HKCWC Fung Yiu King Memorial Secondary School is particularly adept at helping students apply different thinking and writing skills in listening and integrated tasks. She managed to raise students’ metacognition and provide them with suitable, adequate and targeted training of specific language sub-skills. Her experience of implementation of school-based curriculum development and language skills training was shared with members of the Learning Community for English Language Teachers (Secondary). The conceptualised practices served as good reference for other English language teachers, especially in terms of the effort in tailoring learning and teaching materials and English lessons to cater for learner diversity.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2020/21

School:  HKCWC Fung Yiu King Memorial Secondary School

School telephone number:  2640 4968

Teacher:  Ms Tracy Wong

Levels:  P1 - P3

Information about expertise:  Ms Tracy Wong of Buddhist Chan Wing Kan Memorial School used e-resources including multimodal texts effectively to develop her students' phonics and other language skills.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2017/18

School:  Buddhist Chan Wing Kan Memorial School

School telephone number:  2475 3663

Teachers:  Ms Charlotte Lee & Ms Ada Lee

Levels:  P1 - P6

Information about expertise:  Teachers at Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School enriched their reading programme by using a digital e-book library. They selected appropriate and topic-related readers for students and gave more exposure to them through providing a wider range of fiction and non-fiction texts.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School

School telephone number:  2422 0125

Teachers:  Ms Jessica Chui & Ms Winnie Shum

Levels:  P1 - P6

Information about expertise:  Ms Jessica Chui and Ms Winnie Shum of Tai Po Methodist School have rich experience in creating a favourable environment for her students to foster self-directed learning and developing classroom practices which promote student autonomy. She and her team taught text structures explicitly to facilitate their students to extract information from different reading sources and designed extended tasks to enhance their students' motivation in further exploring the topics.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Tai Po Methodist School

School telephone number:   2662 2011

Teachers:  Ms Chan Ka Wai, Ms Wong Yee Lee, Ms Leung Sin Yee, Ms Lam Ting Kwai & Ms Choi Wing Yee

Level:  S2

Information about expertise:  Ms Chan Ka Wai, Ms Wong Yee Lee, Ms Leung Sin Yee, Ms Lam Ting Kwai and Ms Choi Wing Yee of TWGHs Mrs Fung Wong Fung Ting College promoted Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) through equipping their S2 students with essential skills to read non-fiction texts. They also trained some of the S2 students as tutors to coach P6 students of a neighbouring primary school to read non-fiction readers in a cross-key stage RaC buddy reading programme. Through this programme, the S2 student tutors improved their coaching skills, as well as their self-monitoring and self-management skills.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2016/17

School:  TWGHs Mrs Fung Wong Fung Ting College

School telephone number:  2691 3738

Teachers:  Ms Joanne Chui & Ms Ellen Liu

Level:  P5

Information about expertise:  Ms Joanne Chui and Ms Ellen Liu of Sau Mau Ping Catholic Primary School are adept at developing their students into active learners. For example, they have engaged their students in the reading lessons by using different e-tools to collect their real-time responses and give them immediate feedback.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Sau Mau Ping Catholic Primary School

School telephone number:  2348 4218