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The Development of Teacher Quality in an Age of AccountabilityThe Case of Hong Kong
Francis Cheung
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
14 December 2002
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Education Reform for quality schooling in
Hong Kong
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Major Thrust to Successful Education/ Curriculum Reform
Quality of teachers
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Importance of making teaching and learning purposeful
Teachers’ competence in setting expectation of student learning
Conveying expectation of learning to students and parents
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Teachers’ competence in linking expectations to teaching and learning activities
Teachers’ competence in reflecting upon their effectiveness in achieving their set expectations for students
Reflection Learning Action
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Some policy level initiatives in facilitating the development of a quality teaching force
Setting students’ basic competence for core subjects – Chinese, English and Mathematics
Outstanding School Award
Student Attainment Domain
Proposed “Chief Executive’s Award for Teaching Excellence”
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Restructuring professional upgrading courses for teachers
Development of an infrastructure for mentoring
Development of the professional career ladder of teachers
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Developing teacher’s professional practices through SAW
What is Schools Around the World (SAW)?
A professional teacher development program initiated by the Council for Basic Education (CBE) of the United States in 1999
To understand what constitutes "world class" standards and works by giving teachers the opportunity to examine and reflect upon their teaching practice via the analysis of student work
Partner nations/regions: Australia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Portugal, United Kingdom, and United States
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Developing teacher’s professional practices through SAW
Objectives of SAW
Opening up teachers’ horizon in professional practices
Creating of invaluable opportunities for teachers world-wide to have professional discussions on the same subject – facilitate action learning of teachers
Creating a strong international professional teachers’ network to facilitate professional development
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The HK SAW Professional Development Initiatives for Teachers
1. Professional Development Activities
2. Curriculum Development Initiatives in 8 primary and 3 secondary SAW schools
3. 4 Science Teaching CD-ROMs
4. Local & International Web Sites
5. SAW Bulletin/Publication
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1. Professional Development Activities
111 SAW teachers
Setting expectation of students’ work
Analysis of student work – reflection through international discourse in the SAW Academy for Teaching Excellence
Learning from SAW and formulation of future actions
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36 SAW schools Extend to all the teachers in SAW schools How SAW experience could facilitate
project learning and creativity development
Over 100 Non-SAW schools Promoting the SAW activities to non-SAW
schools by conducting 11 workshops
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2001-02: 6 primary and 1 secondary schools
2002-03: 7 primary and 3 secondary schools
Teaching packages
Resource supports to schools
Workshop on the development of pedagogy through SAW experience
Professional discourse among teachers
2. Curriculum Development Initiatives
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3. 4 Science Teaching CD-ROMs
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4. Local & International Web Sites
International web sitewww.edc.org/CCT/saw2000/
Local web sitewww.ied.edu.hk/cric/saw/
Database of student work collected from partner nations/regions (~170 cases)
Database of local student work (~70 cases)
International collaboration and discussion forum
Periodically updated short articles on science teaching
Multimedia science teaching resources
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5. SAW Bulletin/Publication
SAW Bulletin is a focused and organized presentation of the student work of SAW with different themes to provide continuous support to local SAW teachers on science teaching.Developing alternative forms of students' work in science - raising students' active learning ability
To compile all of the SAW bulletins published during the main study so as to share with local teachers the experience of science teaching in different countries
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