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 practicing 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 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 Celia Cheung

Information about expertise:   Ms Celia Cheung, English Panel Head of St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, has been making effective use of an array of e-learning tools and/or resources to increase students’ self-directed learning (SDL) capabilities. SDL cycle components such as goal setting, using appropriate resources, and self-monitoring learning progress have been incorporated into unit planning and material design to develop students’ readiness to learn independently. To enhance students’ ability to use appropriate resources for learning, e-learning tools such as Flipgrid were introduced. Through creating their own presentation videos, students’ self-confidence and skills in speaking English were improved.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  St. John the Baptist Catholic Primary School

School telephone number:  2389 0428

Teacher:  Mr Alex Li

Information about expertise:  Mr Alex Li, English Panel Head of Pui Ching Middle School, developed students’ self-directed learning capabilities and built up their effective learning habits by giving them more autonomy in learning. Self-directed learning (SDL) projects and flipped learning tasks were implemented in S1-4 to extend learning time to outside the lessons. The SDL projects motivated students to read and provided them with opportunities to connect their learning in English lessons to their real-life experiences, future study and career and instilled in them positive values and attitudes, fostering their whole-person development.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

Good practice(s):   Learning beyond designated curriculum contents and lesson time (2020/2021 – 2021/2022)

School:  Pui Ching Middle School

School telephone number:  2711 9222

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 Lilian Law

Information about expertise:  Ms Lilian Law is the English Panel Chairperson of Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road). She possesses substantial experience in employing a variety of strategies to foster Key Stage 2 students' self-directed learning of vocabulary building strategies. Through designing a self-directed vocabulary learning portfolio for students to practise the target vocabulary building strategies, using a variety of modes to assess students' learning of vocabulary, and harnessing appropriate e-tools to maximise their learning time to develop vocabulary power, students have developed solid vocabulary building skills and motivation to learn vocabulary more independently.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2020/21

School:  Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road)

School telephone number:  2625 0766

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 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

Teacher:  Ms Lucinda Choi

Levels:  P1 - P6

Information about expertise:  Ms Lucinda Choi of St Stephen's Girls' Primary School is good at helping her students assume greater responsibility for their own learning and achieve deep learning through equipping them with relevant strategies and skills, such as goal-setting, note-taking, self-management and self-reflection.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2017/18

School:  St Stephen's Girls' Primary School

School telephone number:  2540 5088

Teachers:  Ms Pinky Li & Ms Janny Wong

Levels:  S1 & S2

Information about expertise:  To enhance students' learning to learn capability, Ms Pinky Li and Ms Janny Wong of STFA Seward Woo College introduced different learning strategies to develop self-regulated learning skills among students. A writing protocol was generated to guide students through the goal setting, self-monitoring and self-evaluation process.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2015/16

Good practice(s):  Catering for learner diversity in the context of the NSS

School:  STFA Seaward Woo College

School telephone number:   2762 1183


Title:  10 Years of Language Education in Hong Kong

Media Type:  DVD-ROM (Video) (Subtitles: English and Traditional Chinese)

Issued Date:   August 2014

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