Teacher: Ms Elaine Chung

Information about expertise: Ms Elaine Chung serves as the English Panel Chairperson at The Church of Christ in China Kei Tsz 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. 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. Here, she collaborated with the Faculty of English at Shantou Jinyang Elementary School (汕头市龙湖区金阳小学), engaging in professional development activities that enhanced teacher growth in both regions.

Ms Chung also shared her experiences in curriculum leadership at various meetings 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: The Church of Christ in China Kei Tsz Primary School

School telephone number: 2322 5122

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: Dr Pauline Wong

Information about expertise: Dr Pauline Wong, the English Panel Chairperson of Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School possesses expertise in curriculum planning, and has guided her team in strategically integrating LaC/RaC, values education and national security education into modular planning, aiming to enhance students' reading abilities and foster higher-order thinking. Additionally, she is competent in catering for the diverse needs of students, especially stretching the potentials of high achievers through engaging them in collaborative and self-directed learning activities.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2023/24

Good practices: Opening a lesson on integrating values education and national security education into a module to develop students' inference skills in a territory-wide professional development event

School: Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School

School telephone number: 2648 8291

Teacher: Ms Nicole Wang

Information about expertise: Ms Nicole Wang is the English Panel Chairperson at Ta Ku Ling Ling Ying Public School, where she has led the implementation of Reading across the Curriculum programmes over the years. Her leadership has empowered her team to effectively use diverse school-based resources, fostering authentic learning environments and providing meaningful experiential learning opportunities for students.

During the 2023/24 school year, Ms Wang was seconded to the Language Learning Support (LLS) Section. In this capacity, she worked collaboratively with various schools to integrate key curriculum initiatives, such as values education, into their English Language curriculum. Her role extended beyond local schools as she represented Hong Kong in the 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. Stationed at Shantou Danxia Primary School (汕头市龙湖区丹霞小学), she engaged in professional development activities to share good practices and enhance collaboration with Mainland educators.

During her secondment, Ms Wang also contributed her insights into curriculum leadership through the Curriculum Leadership Development Programme and Learning Communities for English Language Teachers organised by LLS Section. Her involvement in these networking platforms underscored her commitment to advancing educational excellence.

Year becoming a resource teacher: 2022/23

Good practices: 

• Cultivating positive qualities and responsibility for learning through Reading across the Curriculum

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

• From Reading to Writing, Infusing Proper Values and Attitudes into English Language Curriculum

School: Ta Ku Ling Ling Ying Public School

School telephone number: 2674 0538

Teacher:  Ms Eva Yau

Information about expertise:  Ms Eva Yau, Vice-Principal of Fanling Public School, possesses expertise in holistic curriculum planning, Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) and catering for learner diversity. She has led her team to conduct systematic curriculum planning across levels based on the Learning Progression Framework. She has also employed a variety of strategies such as setting differentiated learning goals and expected outcomes, and using flipped learning, e-learning, experiential learning and multimodal texts in task-based units and RaC projects at different levels to cater for students’ diverse needs, interests and language abilities. Through collaborating with teachers of other content subjects including General Studies, Mathematics and Visual Arts teachers to promote RaC, she has created an array of engaging and meaningful English learning activities for students to achieve whole-person development.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  Fanling Public School

School telephone number:  2670 2297

Teacher:  Ms Vivienne Tang

Information about expertise:  Ms Vivienne Tang, English Panel Chairperson of Pui Tak Canossian College, has led her team to adopt a whole school approach to implementing LaC/RaC to increase students’ language exposure and enhance their language and literacy development across KLAs. Besides, she worked with her school leadership team to make good use of the time released from optimisation to provide diversified options and activities to cater for students’ diverse interests, abilities and aspirations and foster their whole-person development.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

Good practice(s):   A whole school approach to maximising students’ learning experiences (2020/2021 – 2021/2022)

School:  Pui Tak Canossian College

School telephone number:  2554 0780

Teacher:  Ms Kylie Leung

Information about expertise:  Ms Kylie Leung, English Panel Chairperson of The Church of Christ in China Chun Kwong Primary School, led her team to broaden their school-based English Language curriculum through the integration of Reading across the Curriculum and self-directed learning in Key Stage 1. Specific features include:

• using authentic fiction and non-fiction texts to promote values education;

• designing meaningful and creative tasks to nurture students' self-directed learning capabilities including setting learning goals and evaluating learning outcomes;

• adopting diversified assessment modes including self-assessment, peer assessment and e-assessment;

• infusing life-wide learning through different parent-child activities; and

• adopting a blended learning approach in response to the suspension of face-to-face classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  The Church of Christ in China Chun Kwong Primary School

School telephone number:  2476 2696

Teacher:  Ms Vian Siu

Information about expertise:  Ms Vian Siu, Panel Head of Integrated Science and Head of STEM education and e-learning of St. Teresa Secondary School played an active role in promoting Language across the Curriculum, Reading across the Curriculum & STEM education in the school. Through a STREAM project collaborated among different subjects including English Language, Information and Communication Technology and Visual Arts, students learned and applied effective strategies to construct scientific knowledge, acquired generic skills such as creativity, critical thinking and problem solving skills and developed positive values and attitudes which pave the way for their development into lifelong learners.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2017/18

School:  St. Teresa Secondary School

School telephone number:  2711 5202

Teachers:  Ms Heidi Chang, Mr Patrick Tseng & Mr Nathan Monaghan-Clarke

Level:  P6

Information about expertise:  Ms Heidi Chang, Mr Patrick Tseng and Mr Nathan Monaghan-Clarke of Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School are good at employing a variety of strategies for sparking students' curiosity and inspiring them to come up with more creative ideas for their writing using hands-on tasks.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Baptist (Sha Tin Wai) Lui Ming Choi Primary School

School telephone number:  2647 6242

Teachers:  Mr Simon Chan & Ms Rita Wong

Level:  P5

Information about expertise:  Mr Simon Chan and Ms Rita Wong of Buddhist Wong Cheuk Um Primary School have experience in planning and implementing STEM education. They infused STEM elements into modular design to ignite students' sense of wonder by asking them to design a product using the closed circuit to solve some problems. The project was initiated by the English Language subject and extended to cross-disciplinary collaboration with General Studies, Visual Arts, teacher-librarian and the Information Technology teams.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Buddhist Wong Cheuk Um Primary School

School telephone number:  2576 2638

Teachers:  Mr Ken Ho & Ms Janetta Man

Levels:  S2 & S6

Information about expertise:  Mr Ken Ho and Ms Janetta Man of Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School used a variety of e-tools effectively to help students develop language skills and enhance formative assessment in school. Students were encouraged to produce and publish multimodal texts. The English Subject also provided support in promoting STEM education in the school by incorporating the aquaponics system (a school facility) into an S2 unit on 'Going Green' to develop students' presentation skills in preparing them for STEM-related competitions.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School

School telephone number:  2336 2657

Teachers:  Ms Irron Wong, Ms To Yee Ching & Ms Brenda Li

Levels:  P5 & P6

Information about expertise:  Ms Irron Wong, Ms To Yee Ching and Ms Brenda Li, the English teachers of Shatin Tsung Tsin School, possess a lot of experience in promoting Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) at KS2. They collaborated with the General Studies teachers and the teacher-librarian to foster P6 students' reading of non-fiction texts and organized a cross-key stage RaC buddy reading programme for them to work with the Secondary 2 students of a neighbouring school. They also infused STEM elements into a P5 module.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Shatin Tsung Tsin School

School telephone number:  3576 3344

Teacher:  Mr Jacob Kung

Levels:  S1 - S4

Information about expertise:  Mr Jacob Kung of SMKMCF Ma Ko Pan Memorial College implemented with his team a series of measures on Language across the Curriculum to support junior secondary students to use English to learn content subjects.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2015/16

Good practice(s):  Equipping curriculum leaders to support whole school implementation on LaC

School:  SMKMCF Ma Ko Pan Memorial College

School telephone number:  2407 7440

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