Education Bureau Circular Memorandum No. 101/2021

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Education Bureau Circular Memorandum No. 101/2021

From Secretary for Education To: Heads of all aided (including special schools), government, caput, private and Direct Subsidy Scheme schools offering the local curriculum

Ref: EDB(CD/MCNE)/ADM/150/1/47(1)

Date: 30 November 2021

(Please circulate this circular memorandum to all members of the School Management Committee/ Incorporated Management Committee, Parent-teacher Association and all teachers)

Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) Summary

This circular memorandum announces the release of the Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) prepared by the Standing Committee on Values Education (Standing Committee) under the Curriculum Development Council (CDC). The Framework aims to provide schools with suggestions and examples for the planning of their school-based values education curriculum within and beyond the classroom in order to enable students to develop positive values and attitudes from an early age and face the challenges in their studies, daily lives and growth with positive attitudes.

Background

2. The Education Bureau (EDB) has been attaching great importance to values education and, all along, adopting a “multi-pronged and co-ordinated” approach to support schools on all fronts in promoting values education so as to foster students’ development of positive values, attitudes and behaviours. Through adopting various measures on an ongoing basis, such as updating curriculum guides, developing learning and teaching (L&T) resources, providing training for teachers as well as organising activities for students, the EDB supports schools in promoting values education and nurturing students’ moral character both within and beyond the classroom, thereby enabling them to care for society, the nation and the world, foster their national identity, appreciate Chinese culture and develop a sense of responsibility and commitment to society and the nation.

3. The Task Force on Review of School Curriculum (the Task Force) set up by the EDB in November 2017 submitted its review report to the EDB in September 2020, putting forward recommendations, including according a higher priority to values education. The EDB accepted the recommendations set out in the Task Force’s report in December 2020. In response to the Task Force’s recommendations, the CDC subsequently set up the Standing

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Committee on Values Education (Standing Committee). After gathering views of different stakeholders through meetings and other channels including seminars, workshops and focus group interviews, the Standing Committee prepared the Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) for use in schools, with reference to the Moral and Civic Education Curriculum Framework (2008).

Details

4. Based on the growth characteristics and developmental needs of students, the Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) sets out the learning expectations for students’ attitudes and behaviour in different life domains, such as personal, family, community, national and global domains. With Chinese culture as the backbone, the

curriculum framework connects various learning areas and subjects and provides schools with a comprehensive and systematic framework in promoting values education. Schools may download the curriculum framework (Chinese version only for the pilot version) from the EDB Values Education webpage (www.edb.gov.hk/en/ve).

5. Schools should make reference to the curriculum framework when holistically planning the school-based values education and organising related learning activities, and collaborating with different stakeholders (including teaching staff, parents and alumni) to promote whole school participation. The curriculum framework also provides recommended strategies and resource support for schools’ reference. The major focuses of the Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) (2021) include:

(a) Adding “diligence” as the priority value and attitude;

(b) Emphasising the necessity to nurture a sense of belonging towards our country from an early age, to help students correctly understand Chinese history, appreciate Chinese culture and traditional values, respect the national symbols and signs (including the national flag, the national emblem and the national anthem), and understand the importance of the Constitution, the Basic Law and national security, so as to cultivate a sense of national identity among students and help them understand their responsibility, as a Chinese, to protect our family and our country and to share joys and sorrows;

(c) Further enhancing life education (including understanding the meaning of life, facing adversity and challenges with positive attitudes, respecting and cherishing life, realising one’s goals and exploring the future);

(d) Emphasising the learning elements of sex education (including self- understanding, good interpersonal relationships, self-protection, respect for and acceptance of others);

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(e) Cultivating media and information literacy among students so that they can process information from different media in a rational and responsible manner;

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(f) Enhancing the learning elements of anti-drug education (including understanding of drug harms, building positive values for facing adversity and resisting temptation, building a positive attitude towards life and leading a healthy lifestyle).

6. To support schools in the implementation of values education, the EDB will continue to provide them with diversified curriculum resources and support, including curriculum planning tools, learning and teaching resources, professional development programmes for teachers and promotional materials. Please refer to Annex 1 for details. It is hoped that the efforts of the family, school and society will be synergised to provide teenagers with learning opportunities in their daily lives to become a new generation equipped with virtues such as diligence, self-care ability, a sense of responsibility and perseverance, to contribute to their families, society and the nation.

7. Curriculum development is an ongoing process. The aforesaid curriculum framework is launched on a trial basis in the current school year in order to collect school- based practices and reflection for further refinement of the curriculum framework. Through various channels, such as school visits, questionnaire surveys, focus group interviews, talks and workshops, we will seek to understand how the curriculum framework is being trialled. In addition, we will also invite some primary and secondary schools to share their implementation experience and reflection as reference for further enhancement of the curriculum in future.

Enquiries

8. Enquiries and views about the Values Education Curriculum Framework (Pilot Version) may be directed to the Moral, Civic and National Education Section of the EDB (Telephone no.: 2153 7493 / email: [email protected]).

Dr. Gloria CHAN for Secretary for Education c.c. Heads of Sections – for information

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Annex 1 Curriculum Resources and Support

1. Professional Development Programmes (PDPs) for Teachers in 2021/22 school year (Examples) [Remarks: The PDPs are generally conducted in Cantonese supplemented with English.]

Course Title Related Learning

Area Month/Year

1. Programme on Planning Life Education for Secondary Schools

(Refreshed) Life Education Sep 2021 –

Aug 2022 2. Programme on Planning Life

Education for Primary Schools

(Refreshed) Life Education Sep 2021 –

Aug 2022 3. Values Education Series:

Implementation Strategies of Values Education in Classroom Setting (Primary) (New)

Values Education Sep 2021

4. Values Education Series: How to Implement “My Pledge to Act”

(Refreshed) Values Education Oct 2021

5. Values Education (Education for Sustainable Development) Series:

Sharing Session on the Learning Outcomes of "My Green Space" Green Building Competition for Schools 2020/21 (New)

Education for Sustainable

Development Oct 2021

6. Values Education (Health Education) Series: Promotion of Anti-drug Education in schools and build up Healthy Lifestyle (New)

Health Education Nov 2021

7. Visiting Winning Schools of the 18th Hong Kong Green School Awards and 2019 Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence (Primary Schools) (Refreshed)

Development Nov 2021 8. Values Education Series: Induction

Programme of Values Education for

Teachers (Refreshed) Values Education Dec 2021 9. Values Education Series:

Implementation Strategies of Values Education in Classroom Setting (Secondary) (New)

Values Education Dec 2021

10. Values Education Series: Whole-

School Curriculum Planning in Values Values Education Dec 2021

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5 Education (Primary) (Refreshed)

11. Values Education (Health Education) Series: Promotion of Anti-drug Education in schools and build up Healthy Lifestyle (Re-run)

Health Education Dec 2021

12. Values Education (Sex Education) Series: Enhancing Self-protection

Awareness among Students (New) Sex Education Dec 2021 13. Love, Care and Respect Series:

Seminar on Animal Care and Welfare

Life-wide Learning Activities (Re-run) Life Education Dec 2021 14. Nurturing Understanding of the

Chinese Culture and Moral Development among Kindergarten Children

Values Education Sep – Dec 2021 15. Values Education Series: (2) Values

Education Curriculum Framework

Briefing Session (Refreshed) Values Education Jan 2022 16. 「兒童文學與情感教育」工作

坊 Values Education Jan – Mar

2022 17. Values Education Series: Promotion of

values education through parent

education in schools (New) Values Education Jan 2022 18. Values Education (Education for

Sustainable Development) Series:

Learning and Teaching Strategies of Climate Change Mitigation (Re-run)

Development Jan 2022 19. Course on Values Education: How to

Plan and Promote Effective Sex

Education (Primary) (Refreshed) Sex Education Jan and Jun 2022 20. Values Education Series: Cultivating

Students' Positive Values through

Chinese Culture Learning (New) Chinese Culture Feb 2022 21. Values Education Series: Learning and

Teaching Strategies for Promotion of

Law-abidingness and Empathy (New) Values Education Feb 2022 22. Values Education (Life Education)

Series: Promotion of Respect for Life's Positive Values and Attitudes through Classroom Learning.(New)

Life Education Mar 2022 23. Learning and Teaching Strategies for

the Secondary Mathematics Curriculum Series: (6) Promoting Moral and Civic Education (Re-run)

Values Education Mar 2022

24. Primary Mathematics Curriculum Learning and Teaching Series: (8) Reading to Learn and Moral and Civic Education (Re-run)

Values Education Apr 2022

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For details of the above PDPs, please refer to the Training Calendar of the EDB.

2. Learning and teaching (L&T) materials (Examples) [Remarks: The L&T materials are generally in Chinese.]

Title Category QR Code

Moral Education

1. 價值觀教育學與教視像資源

（系列一至四）（小學／中學） Short Video 25. Nurturing Children’s Moral

Development (Refreshed) Values Education Mar – May 2022 26. Values Education (Education for

Sustainable Development) Series:

Learning and Teaching Strategies for Promotion of Students' Understanding of Biodiversity (New)

Development Apr 2022 27. Values Education (Media and

Information Literacy Education) Series: Workshop on “Evaluating Internet Information and Enhancing the Learning and Teaching of Students’

Information Literacy” (New)

Media and Information Literacy

Education Apr 2022

28. Values Education (Life Education) Series: To Foster Students' Positive Values and Attitudes for resisting temptation

Life Education May 2022

29. Values Education (Sex Education) Series: Learning and Teaching Strategies on Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS (Refreshed)

Sex Education May 2022

30. Values Education Series: Using Picture Books to Develop Students’ Positive

Values and Attitudes (Refreshed) Values Education May 2022 31. Understanding the Chinese Culture and

Inheriting Traditional Virtues (New) National Security

Education Apr – Jun 2022 32. Values Education Series: Sharing

Session on the Learning Outcome of

My Pledge to Act 2021/22 (Refreshed) Values Education Sep 2022 33. School Leaders Workshop

(Secondary): Enhancing Values

Education Session Values Education 2021/22 s.y.

34. School Leaders Workshop (Primary):

Enhancing Values Education Session Values Education 2021/22 s.y.

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2. 誠信無價（中學） Life Event Example 3. 堅守原則．敢去 SAY NO─ ─

品德教育篇（小學／中學）

Themed Resources Website 4. 談「美德」．論「價值」德育教

材手冊（小學／中學） Booklet 5. 感恩珍惜同心抗疫（中學） Audio Picture

Book 6. 德育及價值觀教育「尊重別

人」學與教資源（幼稚園）

Presentation Slides, Audio Picture Book and

e-Book Life Education

7. 堅守原則．敢去 SAY NO─ ─

反賭博教育篇（小學／中學） Comics

8. 愛護動物（小學／中學） Themed Resources Website 9. 天生我才必有用（小學） Life Event

Example 10. The Dog Show（小學） Short Video 11. 愛護動物通訊程式表情圖像

（小學／中學）

Instant Messaging Stickers Sex Education

12. 私隱部位，不可亂碰（小學） Life Event Example 13. 性教育動畫資源（小學／中

學） Animation

14. 愛情追兵（中學） Life Event Example 15. 堅守原則．敢去 SAY NO─ ─

性教育篇（小學／中學） Comics 16. 我不會責備受害者（中學） Life Event

Example

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Anti-drug Education

17. 我會堅決拒絕嘗試對身體有害的物質（小學／中學）

Life Event Example 18. 向大麻說「不」（小學／中學） Life Event

Example 19. 《堅守原則．敢去 SAY NO》

- 禁毒教育篇（小學／中學）

Themed Resources Website 20. 毒魔的謊言（小學） Short Video 21. 毒魔（中學） Short Video Media and Information Literacy Education

22. 明辨網絡陷阱（小學） Life Event Example 23. 謠言止於智者（中學） Life Event

Example 24. 「網路地雷陣」學習資源網站

Themed Resources Website 25. 「聰明 e 主人」電子學習資源

套（小學／中學）

Themed Resources Website 26. 「健康網絡由你創」短片系列

- 家長篇（小學／中學） Short Video Law-abidingness, Empathy and Diligence related

27. 「道路安全，你我都有責！」

（小學）

Life Event Example 28. 「大義滅友 ?」（揭發好友不當

行為）（中學）

Life Event Example 29. 我幫助了有需要的人（中學） Life Event

Example 30. 價值觀教育學與教視像資源

《舞台上下》（小學／中學） Short Video 31. 價值觀教育學與教視像資源

《文具店》（小學／中學） Short Video 32. 自己動手執書包（小學） Life Event

Example

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33. 我會照顧自己的起居（小學） Life Event Example 34. 幫助做家務（小學） Life Event

Example 35. 中國歷史人物小故事（小學） Short Video Education for Sustainable Development

36. 關注氣候變化（小學／中學） Life Event Example 37. 走「塑」絕「膠」（小學） Presentation

Slides 38. 「綠在南丫」計劃（小學／中

學） Worksheet

39. 惜物減廢．好健康（中學） Life Event Example National Education

40. 認識國旗、國徽、國歌及區旗

Themed Resources Website 41. 《在生活中培養國民素養 ─

─ 國旗及區旗的展示》

Audio Picture Book 42. 《我們的國旗、國歌和區旗》 Audio Picture

Book 43. 一圖盡覽系列：國旗、國徽、

國歌 Poster

44. 「國事小專家」互動問答遊戲資源套系列

Themed Resources Website 45. 《國家安全你我要知》 Audio Picture

Book 46. 《國家安全由家開始》 Audio Picture

Book 47. 承傳中華文化瑰寶．培育國民

身份認同（小學／中學）

Themed Resources Website 48. 齊來學書法（小學） Life Event

Example

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49. 參加了學校舉辦的認識祖國活動（中學）

Life Event Example 50. 參與學校中國文化周（中學） Life Event

Example

3. Student Activities in 2021/22 school year (Examples)

Activities Target Website /

Remarks 1.

“My Pledge to Act” (MPA) Activity Series (1):

MPA Ambassador Programme

Primary and Secondary

Students 2. “My Pledge to Act” Activity Series (3): “Short

Story with Deep Message: Be Grateful and Treasure What We Have, Stay Positive and Optimistic” Video-Making Competition

Secondary Students 3. “My Pledge to Act” Activity Series (2): “Be

Grateful and Treasure What We Have, Stay Positive and Optimistic”4-Panel Comic Drawing Competition

Primary Students 4.

English Sayings of Wisdom (SOW) Campaign 2021/22

Students 5.

Time to Talk Public Speaking Competition

Students 6.

“Money Management Challenge – Wealth by Virtue Animation Script” (Competition)

Secondary Students 7.

《世紀長征》 — 學界菁英問答比賽 ^Secondary Students

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傳承・想創 — — 積極推廣中國歷史與中華文化學校年度大獎

Secondary Students

Please refer to EDB website for details