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:  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 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