9(BF): 2010/5/4(Tue) 09:30-12:30(AM),13:30-16:30(PM) &                 2010/5/5(Wed) 09:30-12:30(AM),13:30-16:30(PM)

10(BG): 2010/5/6(Thu) 09:30-12:30(AM),13:30-16:30(PM) &                  2010/5/7(Fri) 09:30-12:30(AM),13:30-16:30(PM)

12(BI): 2010/5/27(Thu) 09:30-12:30(AM),13:30-16:30(PM) &                  2010/5/28(Fri) 09:30-12:30(AM),13:30-16:30(PM)

English Language Centre, City University of Hong Kong

1. To enhance participants' understanding of assessment concepts and design principles;

2. To develop participants' knowledge and skills in designing and developing different types of English Language tasks/activities for formative assessment; and

3. To enable participants to establish and use task specific assessment criteria as well as to make use of feedback to inform learning and teaching.

For details of program, please refer to here.

1(AA): 2010/4/21(Wed) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 14:00-17:00(PM)
2(AB): 2010/4/28(Wed) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 14:00-17:00(PM)
3(AC): 2010/5/4(Tue) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 14:00-17:00(PM)

EDB

Secondary ENGLISH LANGUAGE Coordinators, Panel Heads and Teachers

1. To prepare teachers for the challenge of the fine-tuned MOI arrangement for secondary schools

2. To expand teachers' repertoire of pedagogical knowledge to strengthen junior secondary students' skills and strategies in learning to read and reading to learn

3. To gain hands-on experience in selecting appropriate texts and designing interesting activities to facilitate reading across the curriculum

4. To introduce the Learning Progression Framework as a tool for incorporating the reading components into the school-based English Language curriculum and facilitating assessment for learning

For details, please refer to here.

7 April 2010

1(AA): 2010/3/8(Mon) 09:00-12:00(AM)
2(AB): 2010/3/8(Mon) 14:00-17:00(PM)
3(AC): 2010/3/16(Tue) 14:00-17:00(PM)

Room E419, Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, 19 Suffolk Rd, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon

In this workshop participants will:

• learn about the Clipit Competition and

• learn and practise editing techniques using film-editing software, including:

- how to add voice-over to a film clip
- how to add sub-titles to a film clip
- how to add special effects
- how to add titles and credits

For details of program, please refer to here.

1(AA): 2010/3/18(Thu) 14:00-17:00(PM)

EDB

Secondary School English teachers

In this workshop, participants will:

• review some content and strategies related to the NSS Elective Module, Learning English Through Workplace Communication;
• consider project-based content for Workplace Communication; and
• receive a copy of the NET section publication, NETworking: Workplace Communication in the English
Classroom, which is aligned to the NSS Curriculum.

For details, please refer to here.

11 March 2010

1(AA): 2010/3/20(Sat) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 2010/3/27(Sat)
09:30-12:30(AM)

Secondary LITERATURE IN ENGLISH Panel Heads and Teachers

Objectives of the workshop are:

1. To introduce participants to the fiction component of the new senior secondary Literature in English curriculum
2. To enhance teachers' knowledge of approaches and strategies in teaching fiction
3. To enable participants to design tasks and activities to help develop students' skills in understanding and responding critically and imaginatively to fiction and to formatively assess students' learning

For details of the conference, please refer to here.

3 February 2010

Vocabulary Teaching and Learning: an introduction to online corpus vocabulary tools

1(AA): 2010/2/8(Mon) 14:00-17:00(PM)

Secondary school English teachers

Using online computer software, participants will have an opportunity to explore:
- corpuses
- frequency based wordlists
- word level tests
- frequency and range tests
- concordances and concordancers
- a dictator
- a cloze test builder

Participants will also have opportunities to discuss the pedagogical applications of the online vocabulary teaching and learning tools.

For details of program description, please refer to here.

1 February 2010

1(AA): 2010/1/27(Wed) 14:30-17:00(PM)

Chiu Lut Sau Memorial Secondary School, 7 Tai Yuk Road, Yuen Long, N.T.

Objectives of the meeting:

1. Share effective teaching practices

2. Distribution of new NETworking publication; Social Issues in the English Classroom

3. Networking between English Teachers

For details of program description, please refer to here.

1(AA): 2010/2/4(Thu) 14:00-17:00(PM)

Room E-419, East Block, Kowloon Tong Education Services Centre, 19 Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon

The workshop will introduce the new resource publication, NETworking: Social Issues in the English Classroom, and demonstrate its adaptation for use in the English classroom.

Participants will:
1. look at effective ways of exploring social issues in the English classroom by using some of the student-created films that were entered in the 'Clipit 2008' competition run by the NET Section;
2. explore various ways of using the films as resources for teaching and learning; and
3. have an opportunity to design their own activity based on a 'Clipit' film of their choice.

For details ofprogram de scription, please refer to here.

Exploring Social Issues through Print Media

1(AA): 2010/2/25(Thu) 14:00-17:00(PM)

Secondary school English teachers

The workshop will introduce the new resource publication, NETworking: Social Issues in the English Classroom, and demonstrate its adaptation for use in the English classroom.

This workshop looks specifically at effective ways of using print media to explore social issues. The focus will be on the use of scaffolding strategies to help students engage with the text, read with fluency and achieve comprehension.
Participants will also explore ways of consolidating student learning through culminating tasks in which students apply their knowledge and skills after reading and understanding a text on a social issue.

Participants will:
1. become familiar with the learning activities and teaching strategies modelled in Section 2 of the NETworking: Social Issues in the English Classroom book;
2. map out a unit of work around a print media text on a social issue, in which scaffolding strategies are employed enabling students to read with fluency and comprehension; and
3. work collaboratively to design one task in the unit of work that scaffolds student learning.

For details of program description, please refer to here.

11 Feb 2010

1(AF): 2010/4/10(Sat) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 2010/4/10(Sat) 13:30-16:30(PM) & 2010/4/17(Sat) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 2010/4/17(Sat) 13:30-16:30(PM)
2(AG): 2010/4/16(Fri) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 2010/4/16(Fri) 13:30-16:30(PM) & 2010/4/23(Fri) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 2010/4/23(Fri) 13:30-16:30(PM)
3(AH): 2010/4/30(Fri) 09:30-12:30(AM) & 2010/4/30(Fri) 13:30-16:30(PM) & 2010/5/7(Fri) 09:30-12:30(AM) &
2010/5/7(Fri) 13:30-16:30(PM)

RTown Centre of Hong Kong Institute of Education, TC 221, Level 2, Long Beach, 8 Hoi Fai Road, Taikoktsui, Kowloon or
B3-LP-08, Tai Po Main Campus, Hong Kong Institute of Education or
D2-LP-12, Tai Po Main Campus, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Secondary ENGLISH LANGUAGE Panel Heads

The objectives of the workshops are:

1. To introduce participants to the three-year senior secondary English Language curriculum;
2. To develop participants' knowledge and skills in planning and implementing the new language curriculum at school level;
3. To familiarise participants with teaching strategies/learning activities with which to implement the new curriculum; and
4. To enable participants to produce an action plan to facilitate the development and implementation of a coherent school-based English Language curriculum from S1 to S6.

For details of program description, please refer to here.

19 March 2010