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 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 Martin Lai

Information about expertise:   Mr. Martin Lai, Coordinator of IT in Education (English Language) of Salesian English School, and his colleagues leverage technology to enhance English learning and teaching. For instance, pre-lesson preparation tasks, while-lesson collaborative tasks as well as post-lesson extended tasks using e-tools like Nearpod, Padlet and ClassDojo were developed to increase students’ involvement at different reading stages; exit tests were conducted with Google Forms to consolidate and follow up students’ grammar learning. With effective integration of technology into learning and teaching within and outside the classroom, students’ engagement in learning has been enhanced, their learning time maximised and the assessment mode diversified.

Year becoming a resource teacher:   2021/22

School:  Salesian English School

School telephone number:  2560 2134

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 Freda Tse

Levels:  S2 - S5

Information about expertise:  Ms Freda Tse of Yu Chun Keung Memorial College No. 2 coherently infused life-planning education into different teaching units to help students understand their interests, abilities and career preferences, and explore different types of jobs available on the market. Visits to different places like restaurants and vocational training institutes were also arranged to create career-related experiences. Also, a variety of e-tools were used, which maximised interactions within and outside the classroom, thereby raising students' confidence in using the target language.

Year becoming resource teachers:   2017/18

School:  Yu Chun Keung Memorial College No. 2

School telephone number:  2551 8285

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