Teacher: Ms Elaine Chung

Information about expertise: Ms Elaine Chung serves as the English Panel Chairperson at CCC Chuen Yuen Second Primary School. She has adeptly led the planning and implementation of Reading across the Curriculum programs at Key Stage 2. Her leadership fosters collaboration among teachers from various subject departments including General Studies, Information and Communication Technology, and Life Education. This collaboration aims to boost student engagement with non-fiction texts, enhance reading skills, and foster positive values and attitudes.

During the 2023/24 school year, Ms Chung was seconded to the Language Learning Support (LLS) Section, Education Bureau, while she was the English Panel Chairperson of The Church of Christ in China Kei Tsz Primary School. She worked closely with supported schools to integrate curriculum initiatives such as values education and Reading across the Curriculum into their school English Language curriculum. Additionally, she represented Hong Kong teachers in the Hong Kong Teacher's Exchange Activities to the Mainland, co-organised by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the Department of Education of Guangdong, and the Education Bureau. She collaborated with the English Department at Shantou Jinyang Elementary School (汕头市龙湖区金阳小学), delivering professional development activities that enhanced teacher growth in both regions.

Ms Chung also shared her experiences in curriculum leadership at various events within the Curriculum Leadership Development Programme and Learning Communities for English Language Teachers organised by the LLS Section, offering valuable insights as a seasoned curriculum leader.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2023/2024

Good practices:

• The Hong Kong Teacher's Exchange Activities to the Mainland (2023/2024)

• Travel Fun: From Appreciation to Commitment to Protecting Our Cultural Heritage

School: CCC Chuen Yuen Second Primary School

School telephone number: 2420 1220

Teacher: Ms Ada Fong

Information about expertise: At Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Branch Primary School, English Panel Head Ms Fong stands out for her creative integration of technology in language education. She has pioneered approaches to develop students' AI literacy in English Language learning, focusing on cultivating their ability to interact meaningfully with AI tools.

At the Professional Network for Exploring Generative AI in English Language Learning and Teaching of the Language Learning Support Section, Ms Fong demonstrated how she guides students to write effective prompts and critically evaluate AI-generated feedback on their writing. Her innovative approach also includes using AI tools creatively to help students demonstrate their learning.

Ms Fong's practical strategies and insights have inspired fellow English teachers to help their students leverage AI effectively in English language learning.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2024/25

School: Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Branch Primary School

School telephone number: 2447 8686

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: Leveraging student diversity to integrate values education into English Language learning and teaching

School: Islamic Dharwood Pau Memorial Primary School

School telephone number: 2320 1300

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:  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 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 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