Resource Teachers - Language Skills Development

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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

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School: St Clare's Girls' School

School telephone number: 2817 1764


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 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 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




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