Promoting Values Education through

Collaborative Research & Development (“Seed”) Project for 2022/2023

Enhancing Creative Use of Language and Promoting Values Education through

Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) in the Primary English Classroom (KS2)

English Language Education Section Curriculum Development Institute

Education Bureau 14 Feb 2022

Project Objectives

Selecting a variety of learning and teaching resources, both printed and e-learning

materials, to enrich “Seed” school’s English Language curriculum, provide sufficient input for students and engage them in different forms of creative use of English;

Planning the KS2 curriculum strategically

through Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) to broaden students’ knowledge base,

strengthen their reading skills and nurture their positive values, attitudes and

behaviour;

adopting effective teaching

strategies and designing suitable learning, teaching and assessment activities to:

promote RaC and cultivate students’

positive values, attitudes and

behaviour through engaging them in meaningful learning activities and guiding them to reflect on their life experiences; and

introduce creative thinking tools in the English classroom to stimulate students

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 enriching the existing curriculum, with more emphasis on the academic and creative use of the language such as debating and public speaking, to stretch their potential and achievements; and

 providing more opportunities for students to enhance their language competency via Language across the Curriculum (LaC) and Reading across the Curriculum (RaC)

Final Report of Task Force on Review of School Curriculum (2020)

Recommendations on English Language Education (3.6.10)

p.24 3.6 Creating Space and Catering for Learner Diversity

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… to cultivate in students a care for life, and positive values and qualities for meeting unanticipated crises, as well as helping them develop a strong sense of civic-mindedness and social responsibility.

Final Report of Task Force on Review of School Curriculum (2020)

Values Education at Schools

p.16 3.5 Values Education and Life Planning Education

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Enhancing Creative Language Use and Promotion of Reading across the

Curriculum

Rationale and Benefits

Collaborative Research & Development

(“Seed”) Project for 2022/2023

Benefits of Implementing Reading across the Curriculum

RaC

Links between ELE and Other KLAs

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Possible Directions When Planning for Reading across the Curriculum

Identifying common

themes/topics e.g. festival celebration, healthy lifestyle

Text types

e.g. timelines, biographies

Skills/Strategies e.g. reading strategies, generic skills

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Possible directions when planning for RaC

1. Themes/topics/ issues 2. Text types

3. Skills/Strategies - Reading strategies

- Generic skills (e.g. mind mapping, graph plotting, drawing graphic organisers)

Promoting Reading across the Curriculum

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From General English

From other subjects What are some common features?

A recipe Procedures for doing an experiment

• to tell others how to do something

• list of materials and steps

An article in a guidebook

A description about the features of an animal

• to describe something in detail

• present tense is used

• to use quite a lot of adjectives

A recount An article about WWII

• to recall what happened in the past

• past tense is used

• to follow the time

sequence (chronological order)

An argumentative essay on studying

abroad

An article discussing the different opinions about

globalisation

• to discuss some issues from different sides/

perspectives

Materials developed by Dr. Yuen Yi Lo & LAC team@HKU

Promoting Reading across the Curriculum

Possible directions when planning for RaC

1. Themes/topics/ issues 2. Text types

3. Skills/Strategies - Reading strategies

- Generic skills (e.g. mind mapping, graph plotting, drawing graphic organisers)

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Curriculum Planning Level

• Creative thinking involves the generation of new ideas, exploring possibilities and discovering alternatives.

• Development strategies: Providing ample opportunities for students to use English language in an integrative and creative manner

• Designing tasks, activities and projects for students to create new ideas or things, or work out innovative solutions to problems

• Collaboration with other KLAs

Learning & Teaching Strategies

• Adopting a student-centred approach

• Introducing creative thinking tools and strategies to encourage imagination and creativity

Learning & Teaching Resources

• Language arts materials, e.g. short stories, poems, songs, films

Creative Language Use in the

Primary English Classroom

Some principles:

1. Go beyond the given information 2. Allow time to think

3. Strengthen creative abilities, e.g.

• look at a situation from several perspectives

• break away from traditional patterns of thought

• teach creative thinking techniques

http://www.edb.gov.hk/creativethinking_pri

Providing opportunities for students to write creatively and critically

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2.

Promoting Values Education

Concepts and Ideas

Collaborative Research & Development

(“Seed”) Project for 2022/2023

“In view of the fact that positive values are interrelated, the Task Force considers that

the current holistic and integrated approach for promoting different facets of Values

Education is appropriate.”

p.17 Values Education and Life Planning Education (3.5.3)

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A Holistic and Integrated Approach for Promoting Values Education

• provide

multifarious

Values Education- related learning experiences in the curriculum to broaden students’

perspective

• provide different modes of

professional development

activities, including pre-service teacher education and in- service continuing professional

development

• prepare more exemplars and

resource materials to support teachers in developing the universal core

values

underpinning

Chinese morals and culture

pp.18 &19 3.5.3 Values Education and Life Planning Education

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Project Title:

Enhancing Creative Use of Language and Promoting Values Education through Reading across the Curriculum (RaC) in the Primary English Classroom (KS2)

Project Code:

Duration:

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Planning &

Implementation of the “Seed”

Project

Implementation (1-2 weeks)

• To try out the unit, i.e. the strategies and materials, in at least one class of students

Development • To design and develop materials for one unit of work (about 8 – 10 lessons) with the CDI officers

Development

• To design and develop materials for one unit of work (about 8 – 10 lessons) with support from the CDI officers as appropriate

Implementation (1-2 weeks)

• To try out the unit, i.e. the strategies and materials, in at least one class of students

Evaluation • To participate in the tryout evaluation

• To participate in the end-of-the-year sharing Phase I

Phase II

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“Seed”

School(s)

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Seed schools are expected to:

 nominate 1 experienced and committed English teacher to be the project leader and identify a core group of teachers to form a

Project Team;

 identify one upper primary level for implementing the programme

 consider how discussion and material development can fit into the level’s current mode of collaborative lesson preparation;

 set aside a period of time in the scheme of work to try out the project materials; and

 assist in the collection of evidence (covering tryout lessons,

classroom observations, interviewing students/teachers) on the processes of change and impact on student learning.

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School Application Form

[Education Bureau Circular Memorandum No. 1/2022 Staff Interflow Schemes 2022 (Appendix C in duplicate)]

Application

Submit a Project Proposal

including the following

- title of “Seed” project with project code - school particulars

- proposal details

(provide details on A4 sheets) Appendix C (pp.68 & 69 of CM 1/2022)

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Deadline for Application:

10 March 2022 (Thursday) Send your application to:

By hand

Drop-in Box

(Box No.: EDB03 - Staff Interflow Schemes 2022)

By post

or

EDB Human Resource Management Unit 4/F, East Wing, Central Government Offices

2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong

(Application for Staff Interflow Schemes 2022)

Located at 2/F Entrance, East Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar,

Hong Kong

Enquiries

Professional matters:

Ms Christine LEUNG 2892 5874

(email: lws@edb.gov.hk)

Ms Brenda FUNG 2892 5888

(email: brendafung@edb.gov.hk)

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