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Developing Students’ Self-Reflection

Ying Wa Girls’ School

2013-01-08

Promoting Self-Reflection

through…

–School Culture & Management

–SDP & School Goal

–ECA & Student Activities

–Learning and Teaching

–Special Projects & Incidents


through…

–School Culture & Management

Ying Wa Girls’ School

Founded in 1900

a school with unique character and clear

mission

A school set up by missionaries with

• a serving heart • a clear vision and mission • a selfless attitude • a simple life • an eternal outlook • a low profile • commitment • total devotion

A school set up by missionaries who

• meet the needs of others

• respect people as precious souls

• seek strength from eternal source

School Mission

• Quality education of a Christian character

• Emphasis on whole-person development

• Cultivation of noble character

positive and healthy attitude to life

a keen sense of responsibility and commitment

the capacity for life long learning

We value

• people

• respect

• acceptance

• participation

• trust

• responsibility


through…

– SDP & School Goal

SDP (2007-2012) 5-year plan - Promoting Quality Learning

•07-08 Caring, Active & Responsible Learner •08-09 Care to Learn; Learn to Care •09-10 Care to Learn; Learn to Inquire •10-11 Care to Learn; Care to Reflect •11-12 Building on Strength: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Learning and Teaching

•

Success Criteria

SDP - more likely to be successful if goals are

1. well-planned (Long – Medium – Short Term);

2. focused (only ONE major concern);

3. built on strength;

• 07-08 Caring, Active & Responsible Learner

• 08-09 Care to Learn; Learn to Care

• 09-10 Care to Learn; Learn to Inquire

• 10-11 Care to Learn; Care to Reflect

• 11-12 Building on Strength

•

Success Criteria


4.ready to Stop / Sustain / Improve;

5.whole-school approach;

• School Goal Committee -> School Executive Committee -> Middle Managers -> Full Staff -> Students -> Janitors

Whole-School Approach

• Subjects / Committees - Designing their major concern related to the School Goal

• Teachers - Sharing by Principal and Teachers after exchange tours

• Classes - Setting up their own class goals

• Students - Sharing of students’ exposure / service projects

• Janitors - Writing their own goal of the year

English Department - Annual Plan (2010-11)

• Major Concerns :

– Successful implementation of NSS

– Strengthen students’ ability to reflect on their work

– Continue efforts to increase students’ exposure to the language

• Intended outcomes/targets :

1. Use and evaluation of NSS Popular Culture elective materials

2. Students have more chances to reflect on their work and

progress

3. Students have balanced exposure and use of the language

Strategies / Tasks

e.g. Classes to set their own goal and

action plan

Success Criteria


6.adopted using a bottom-up approach while Subjects and Departments can exercise their professional judgment and autonomy to be in-line with School Goal

7.reinforced and shared periodically

Difficulties

1. Takes time and patience to generate consensus and lobbying staff.

2. Need to train new staff to sustain programmes.

3. Proactive staff may be over-loaded.


through…

– ECA & Student Activities

ECA and Student Activities Self-Reflection can only occur if:

•Students have: – Ownership

– Autonomy

•School /Teachers provide: – Quality experience to students

– Platforms for students to practise

– A sustainable culture - Cross-years experience sharing

Student Leaders 1. Participation by choice

2. Quality training : Team building; Framing and Debriefing

3. Platform to practice: Risk Management

4. Role of teachers: observer, cheering team leader and gate-keeper

5. Reporting & reflection: Report, sharing, AGM, Appraisal

6. Train the trainer: experience across generations

Individual students

• Participation by choice: ECA Point System

• Quality input: Outward Bound

• Platform to try: Students’ Day

• Recording: SLP; Choosing Self-reported data

• Reflection: Sharing booklet, Writing Self-account

ECA Point System

Participation by choice

• Choose within limit

• No minimum points

• Student’s input while cutting

Quality input: Outward Bound School for S4 students

• Participation by choice: ECA Point System

• Quality input: Outward Bound

• Platform to try: Students’ Day

• Recording: SLP; Choosing Self-reported data

• Reflection: Sharing booklet, Writing Self-account

Individual students

Challenges/difficulties

• Struggle between the outcome and the process, so let go!

• Dilemma between urgent (event) and important (train the trainer, nurture the culture, quality input) things, so sharpen the saw!

• It takes time to change, so be patient!

• A balanced input: outsourced or internal resources


through…

– Learning & Teaching

What should

students learn?

How should students

learn & teachers teach?

How can we know students

have learned?

Curriculum Pedagogy

Assessment

Better Learning

Learning & Teaching

The

CPA

loop

Students encouraged to reflect on their learning through assignments, such as project work and journal writing (reading journal)

All students completed oral and written work related to reflection.

Students show more awareness of importance to reflect on their performance.

Learning and Teaching

They made summaries of the learning as reviews of

what they had acquired in the lesson. Their sharing

in class did not only give them more speaking and

listening practice but also provided information to

teachers to make adjustments to their teaching.


Extracts from Annual Reports

S3 Language Arts - LAT

In today's Language Arts lesson, I have

learnt more about the poetic skill of

personification. Besides, I have also had a

revision on similes and metaphors. In addition, I

have got to know more about analyzing the

pattern of a poem. I think these techniques are

not only useful in reading or writing poems, but

are useful to make other types of writing like

letters or stories, more interesting and literary as

well.


I have learnt many names of animals, such as

parasitic wasp, gorilla, chimpanzee, leopard and

so on, and also some interesting facts about

them which I have never heard of before.

Moreover, I have learnt some new words and

phrases like ewe, robe, embrace, to sniff out,

equivalent to and capable of doing something.

These words and phrases can make speaking

or writing more realistic and lifelike.


In the coming lessons, I hope to learn more

about animals so that I can increase my

knowledge about the nature. I wish to learn

more new phrases and expressions so as to

improve my speaking and writing to a more vivid

and literary state. I wish to be able to express

meanings in more different ways so that my

speeches and writings will be more interesting

and rich in the range of vocabulary used.

Thank you Mandy for writing your reflection to me. I

hope you can still manage to follow the lessons, as

sometimes I might be conducting the lessons at a

rather fast pace. Please let me know whether you

would like me to explain thoroughly. Just feel free.

How do you find the lessons we had these weeks?

Without referring to the text, do you understand how

to analyze the writer’s style in the story? Come and

let me know if you have any queries.

Feedback from Teacher

Students are requested to write reflections in learning portfolios during lessons

Students hand in learning portfolio showing students’ review on their learning .

They give suggestions for enhancing teaching and learning.

Teachers can identify the learning needs of students.


S1 Integrated Science

Obtain feedback from students – Students give feedbacks, comments and opinions to facilitate the teaching and learning effectiveness

To consolidate views from students on the teaching and learning effectiveness

Helping new teachers in getting students' feedback


Student Evaluation Form Class : __________ Subject : _______________ Date : _____________

The quality of teaching can be improved when teachers receive feedback from students for them to

incorporate into their subsequent teaching activities. For this reason, you are asked to complete this

form indicating your assessment of the lessons.

Following is a list of statements. Each of the statements requires a response on a scale of five:

5 = Strongly Agree 4 = Agree 3 = Neutral 2 = Disagree 1 = Strongly Disagree

5 4 3 2 1

1. Teacher has good preparation and the lessons are well organized.

老師備課充足，課堂有完善的計劃。

2. Teacher can effectively explain the teaching content.

老師能有效地表達教學內容。

3. Teacher can enhance student participation in classroom.

老師能促進學生的課堂參與。

4. Teaching can promote students’ higher order thinking.

老師教學能提昇學生的思考能力。

5. Teacher has good questioning skills.

老師有良好的提問技巧。

Overall comment :

The areas that I particularly appreciate the teacher :

If the teacher can improve in the following areas, it can help my learning a lot.

7. Teacher can maintain students’ concentration during lesson.

老師能維持學生上課的專注力。

8. Good teacher-student relationship in classroom.

課堂上師生關係融洽。

9. Good design of exercise which can effectively consolidate learning.

習作設計合宜，能有效地鞏固學習。

10. Good marking of exercise which gives suitable feedback.

習作批改用心，能給予學生適切的回饋。

11. Design of test can effectively evaluate students’ understanding of the

teaching content.

測驗設計能有效地評估學生對學習內容的掌握。

Other Forms of Assessment (OFA) – include various modes of formative assessment used to gauge the skills, attitude and abilities of students

Provide a diversified mode of assessment so as to provide more information regarding the performance of students in their learning process.

Assessment in a variety of format : assignment, project work, learning activities, discussion or investigation.


Student Assessment Team - Assessment data to teachers


To develop and maintain school-based assessment databank to facilitate interpretation and evaluation of students’ progress and performance.

To help staff to utilize assessment data to enhance effectiveness of learning and teaching by facilitating the feedback loop of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.

Lesson Observation Sharing Sessions


To enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning through sharing of teachers.

Invite teachers to video-tape their lessons for observation and discussion.

On top of highlighting one teaching skill in each sharing session, teachers are invited to share their reflection on teaching and learning, especially evaluation of the effectiveness of the lesson.

Collaborative Lesson Preparation


Collaborative lesson preparation (CLP) sharing sessions are held by different departments throughout the year to promote professional dialogue among colleagues.

Difficulties

The writing of self reflection is time consuming, cannot be carried frequently in lesson.

Not easy to arrange common free periods for Collaborative Lesson Preparation.

Teachers need to give feedback to students which would increase the workload of teachers.


through…

– Special Projects & Incidents

e.g. Recent MNE issue

德育及國民教育

•學校的取態

•急轉直下

•戰線移入校園

怎麼辦？

•黑衣代替校服 ?

•籌款反國教 ??

•校內反國教活動 ???

•罷課 ????

•反思部署

•有商有量

•欣賞尊重

•啟發思考

•納入正軌

•賦權承責


through…

– Special Projects & Incidents

e.g. Redevelopment Project

學校重建新機遇

生命教育好課題

1. 何必偏偏選中我？

就在我們這一代

2. 生命中要學懂的五句話

3. 學校暫遷的啓示

4. 憑信而行

5. 別人的滋養、美好的承傳

Lessons Learnt

1. Know our core values

2. Share visions

3. Allow time

4. P – I – E

5. Reflect, reflect and reflect

From an S6 graduate 20 August 2012

Being a 2012 S6 graduate, I am writing to extend my

heartfelt thanks to Ying Wa.

I might seem an anonymous student at school and

had few outstanding ECA or academic

records. However, deep down my heart, I am very

grateful that the school has always provided us a safe

haven and hub for learning. Not only did Ying Wa

teach us how to excel in academics, but also how to

be a graceful lady……

Apart from the exceptional teachers I encountered

in Ying Wa, I have also made best friends here

whom I share my joy and sorrow with.

Ying Wa has taught me invaluable lessons in how to

live a bright and beautiful life. I sincerely hope that

the tradition of assemblies and speeches can be

passed on for generations. Sometimes you won’t

know how influential a speech or an assembly can

be until we rewind our life.

Enclosed please find my insignificant donation to the

school’s redevelopment project as a token of thanks

to the priceless years in Ying Wa. The money is

actually my first ever salary (to be precise, my

allowance) to the internship I had this summer. I

wish every success of Ying Wa and I will pray for a

wonderful new campus for my “師妹”.

I had never imagined how significant and influential

Ying Wa would be until after graduation. The

feelings are indescribable in words.

Dear Mrs. Lee,

I still remember the assemblies last year when

you shared with us your agony and worries

about the redevelopment project. It is hard to

imagine that we’re in this decanting campus now.

Time really flies. Students now may not thank

you for what you did but I’m sure those in the

future would thank you for your effort and

energy put in this project that benefits them as if

I thank Miss Davies for coming to Hong Kong

years before. It will worth it. Mrs. Lee, thank you!

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