Special course planning to set sail for your ideal future

Buddhist Sum Heung Lam Memorial CollegeAdhering to the spirit of the school motto "Be wise and compassionate", we promote the growth and development of students in moral, intellectual, physical, social, aesthetic and spiritual education, establish a correct outlook on life, and develop their personal potential. The school actively builds a healthy and caring campus, formulates diversified learning and teaching policies, and takes into account students' academic, physical and moral education development. The new principal@TERM2@@ is committed to creating a high-quality and innovative educational environment for students to help them discover and realize their different potentials, so that students can build self-confidence in the learning process and find their own life goals. In the future, they can be able to live in society, fulfill their own responsibilities, know how to care about the country and society, and become a Shenzhen person with "compassion, sincerity, and confidence."

Make good use of big data to improve students’ learning effectiveness

Coherent and comprehensive school-based curriculum planning helps students achieve learning goals more effectively. The school focuses on cultivating students' self-study habits and knowledge management as the core of curriculum design. Teacher Zhang Dingbang, director of the Academic Affairs Committee, said that in order to help students establish good study habits and improve learning efficiency, the school encourages peers to discuss, share and report with each other, and to play the role of "little tutors" to increase their investment in the classroom. Through group teaching, students' interactive communication and teamwork spirit are stimulated. They will share their opinions and perspectives, helping to create a good learning atmosphere.

In addition, the school keeps pace with the times and promotes electronic teaching. Currently, 70% of the school’s teachers are “Apple Teachers” who can guide students to apply different new technologies. Teachers will collect students’ learning data in class, such as coursework, test scores, attendance rate, etc. Understand the learning status of students through data analysis so that appropriate adjustments can be made to the curriculum to achieve the effect of "top-notch students make up for the bottom". Teacher Zhang pointed out: "Through big data analysis, schools can know and understand students' learning difficulties early in the teaching process and take care of different learning differences. At the same time, schools can also use this to analyze the effectiveness of teaching strategies and understand the teaching effectiveness and expertise of each teacher, so as to make corresponding policies, such as arranging the most suitable teachers according to students' personalities and abilities."

Establish a personalized learning process and integrate courses with career planning

The school plans the future path for students through a personalized learning process. On the one hand, it emphasizes courses to improve students' common abilities; on the other hand, it focuses on combining courses with career planning to allow students to find their own direction. In addition to tutoring work, the school has also established an electronic system and makes good use of big data analysis to allow teachers to understand each student's situation, evaluate their learning progress, and provide the most appropriate assistance. This allows students to have a clear understanding of their own strengths and expertise and better plan their life goals.

Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda added: "We also focus on helping students discover their strengths and weaknesses and adjust their personal career paths. The school cooperates with universities and business organizations to help students develop in a diversified way. In recent years, students have made a lot of progress academically. Some students have been admitted to the Chinese University of Hong Kong and are studying in different departments such as information technology and Chinese, and are moving towards their own goals." The school continues to strive for excellence in order to more effectively achieve the future of students, and plans to build IBM skill The information technology-related courses provided by the platform for college students are introduced into schools. "Students' career planning does not only start at the university level, but they need to plan early and find their own life development path since middle school."

Pay attention to innovative technology education and cooperate with universities and business circles on courses

Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda attaches great importance to innovative technology education and advocates using technology as a tool to improve learning and teaching effectiveness. The school implements the "Together Creation and Co-Learning" curriculum, advocating the concept of "STEM not for STEM's sake", linking different subjects, especially language, and making IT a tool for learning language. Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda Take ChatGPT as an example: "The most important thing about ChatGPT is to train students' questioning skills, to be able to flexibly use artificial intelligence, to make students' knowledge more stable with the help of innovative technology, and to enhance their motivation to learn Chinese. Artificial intelligence is a new wave of development, and schools will teach students how to make good use of technology and build information literacy."

The school collaborates with the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of HKBU, "BSC STEMLAB" and other organizations to organize the "AI Spell Painter Competition", allowing students to use language knowledge to draw pictures using programming, and train their expression skills through innovative technology. The school collaborates with different organizations to organize competitions and activities to create diversified learning experiences for students. Regardless of whether they win awards or not, students can gain something from the process, broaden their horizons, and clarify their own development direction.

Musical theater co-curricular activities to consolidate students’ English foundation

The school develops students' good English skills through special curriculum planning and co-curricular activities. In terms of school-based courses, in order to improve students' conversational skills, the school arranges English pinyin classes to consolidate their pronunciation foundation. The teaching materials are produced by the teaching team according to the students' level, taking into account their reading, writing, listening and speaking abilities. The school has hired two foreign English teachers to create an international English environment. There are two conversation classes per week for Form 1 to Form 4. The teachers will incorporate poetry elements into the teaching content to enhance learning interest. Teacher Sun Zhishan, director of the English Department, pointed out that real context plays a key role in learning English. The school has designed an extension course "Language Art" where students can be exposed to poetry, drama, performance, song appreciation, etc. In addition, the English subject section also cooperates with the further education and employment section to disseminate information on further education and employment in English to enhance students' opportunities to apply English.

At the same time, the school applies interdisciplinary collaborative teaching in English learning and launches English musical co-curricular activities to build an English platform for students and enrich their language learning experience. Teacher Yang Jingyi, director of the music department, said that students will inevitably be more passive when performing on stage at the beginning. Therefore, for English musicals, the school will carry out comprehensive training for students to build their self-confidence. Through continuous accumulation of stage experience, students can confidently speak English and communicate with others.

Continue to promote Buddhist education and cultivate a positive outlook on life

The school adheres to the spirit of the school motto and uses Buddhist education to cultivate students to distinguish right from wrong, be wise, compassionate and kind, so as to establish a positive outlook on life and enable them to become young people with positive attitude, correct knowledge and correct enlightenment. This school year, the school has added high school Buddhism courses so that students can be exposed to Buddhism throughout their six-year middle school career. The content includes meditation, breathing meditation, singing bowls, and sound therapy. Principal Fung Shun Ning, Brenda Refers to the fact that high school students are faced with different pressures such as further education and employment when facing the Hong Kong Diploma Examination. Buddhist education can help students calm their minds, assist them in emotional management and physical management, and promote their physical, mental and spiritual health.

"The basic skills of life advocated by our school superintendent: devotion, perseverance, reflection, and good deeds, we hope that students will apply them in life, study, and life. Buddhist education is a kind of processing of body, mind, and soul. We will observe whether students are engaged in class, and lead students to overcome difficulties with a positive attitude, so that they can learn to persevere. Forbearance, students will reflect on how to make progress in the process." Teacher Ma Jiayao, director of the Buddhist Education Group, added that the school advocates studying Buddhism every day and practicing meditation everywhere, and arranges different learning opportunities for students, such as sweeping the floor and Zen activities to understand the principle of equality of all living beings; copying the Heart Sutra allows students to learn concentration, devotion and perseverance. The school hopes that through Buddhist education, students will become "compassionate, sincere, and confident" "Shen Zhongren" and practice good moral character in life.