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: 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: 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 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:  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:  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:  Mr Cliff Yeung

Information about expertise:  Mr Cliff Yeung, English Panel Chairperson of Tsang Pik Shan (Sung Lan) Secondary School, adopted a variety of effective strategies to address students’ varied abilities, interests and learning styles through engaging them in authentic and meaningful learning experiences. In addition, he has led the English Department in working collaboratively with the Careers Guidance Team to design a variety of career exploration activities to promote Life Planning Education inside and outside the classroom with the aim of broadening students’ horizons and developing their potentials.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2020/21

School:  Tsang Pik Shan (Sung Lan) Secondary School

School telephone number:  2640 4933