On-site Professional Support Services for Secondary Schools/Special Schools Curriculum Leadership Learning Community on Catering for Learner Diversity
Schools can apply for the following Catering for Learner Diversity school-based support services:
Support Service Type II – Curriculum Leadership Learning Community on Catering for Learner Diversity
1. Support Service Co-ordinator
School-based Curriculum Development (Secondary) Section, Quality Assurance and School-based Support Division, Education Bureau
2. Areas of Collaboration
Building learning partnership, Catering for Learner Diversity in secondary schools
3. Foci of Development
The school development officers of the Education Bureau will collaborate with teachers on different aspects of Catering for Learner Diversity. The foci of development are as follows:
• To broaden knowledge and experience of curriculum leaders (e.g. Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCO)) who are enthusiastic about curriculum innovations, in planning and implementing the focused measures of the school-based curriculum, through collaboration and reflection on pedagogical practices
• To establish a professional platform to share resources, exchange experiences and in collaboration explore strategies to cope with the issues pertaining to curriculum adaptation, learning and teaching strategies, as well as assessment for students with SEN
4. Modes of Exchange and Collaboration
Support Service Type II
A professional platform is established for curriculum leaders of all participating schools to explore, in collaboration, strategies to cope with specific issues on school-based curriculum development. It aims at empowering curriculum leaders to become change agents in leading their school teams to promote educational initiatives and/or developing school-based curriculum, through peer learning, sharing and collaboration among the participating schools. The deliverables would be experiences gained through piloting school-based curriculum measures, school-based handbooks or tools, school cases and curriculum plans. In general, there are 2 to 3 curriculum leaders (SENCO and subject panel chairpersons) nominated by each participating school to form a Learning Community (LC) on the chosen theme.
Teachers of participating schools may join some LC activities flexibly to promote the collaborative culture among schools. Please refer to the table below for arrangement of activities:
LC activity No. of Times
Contents Participants
Preparation meeting
1 Formulating objectives, theme and content of the developmental plan
Devising roles and duties of participating schools
Curriculum leaders of all participating
schools On-site
support
2 Providing individual on-site support by school development officers to facilitate schools in devising implementation strategies according to the objectives formulated
Curriculum leaders and teachers of respective participating schools
Theme-based professional development activities
1-2 Professional development activities, in the forms of seminars, workshops or sharing sessions, to enhance professional capacity of curriculum leaders and teachers
Curriculum leaders and teachers of all
participating schools
Inter-school Visit
1-2 Inter-school visits and sharing among participating schools
Inter-school collaborative lesson planning, observation and discussion and/or professional development activities
Curriculum leaders and teachers of
participating schools concerned
Consolidation 1 Consolidation and dissemination of outcomes Curriculum leaders of all participating schools
Differences between Support Service Type I and Type II Support Service Type I
Catering for Learner Diversity
Support Service Type II
Curriculum Leadership Learning Community on Catering for Learner Diversity Participants A core team of teachers of
each participating school
2 to 3 curriculum leaders (e.g. SENCO and subject panel chairpersons) of each participating school
Modes Mainly on-site support Mainly inter-school sharing, collaboration and reflection, with the support from school development officers
Frequency of meetings
Comparatively more Comparatively less
Expectations on participants
Develop school-based curriculum and conduct lesson study in collaboration with school development officers
Explore strategies to cope with the specific issues in developing school-based curriculum, through sharing, collaboration and reflection on pedagogical practices
5. Expectations on Participating Schools
To maximise the support services, participating schools are to find it obligatory to:
• delegate a designated personnel among the 2-3 participating curriculum leaders to liaise with
school development officers, and let the 2 to 3 curriculum leaders attend scheduled meetings as agreed in the Preparation meeting of the respective LC, so as to promote inter-school collaboration
• schedule a common time slot for all internal school personnel involved for regular meetings (around 1.5 hours per week/cycle, preferably within the timetable) to ensure, under the lead of the 2-3 curriculum leaders, ample opportunities for professional discourse in exploring strategies to cope with the specific issues on school-based curriculum development
• share with other teachers experiences in school-based curriculum development and resources developed such as work plans, learning and teaching materials, student work (the copyright of these materials will be co-owned by the Education Bureau (EDB) and the schools concerned.
The EDB also reserves the right to compile and refine the materials for dissemination purposes)
• observe strictly the legal obligations and, in all cases, comply with the Copyright Ordinance in developing school-based curriculum as well as learning and teaching materials
6. Points to Note
The support service will normally last for 1 year
The School-based Curriculum Development (Secondary) Section, in collaboration with teachers, generates knowledge from classroom practices, such as exemplars of learning and teaching, experiences in collaborative lesson planning etc., part of which has been uploaded to the Section’s homepage. For details, please visit the website: http://www.edb.gov.hk/sbss/sbcds
7. Enquiries
Ms HUNG Lai-ting, Venus
School-based Curriculum Development (Secondary) Section Tel: 2639 4745
E-mail: [email protected]
