Resource Teachers - RaC / LaC (in support of STEM / STEAM education)

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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: 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 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 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:  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




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