Professional teaching team to effectively improve learning ability

@TERM0@@, located in Shatin District, has a stable and professional teaching team. It is committed to designing school-based courses that keep pace with the times. According to the needs of different grade students, it helps students master the knowledge of different subjects and build good English skills from the shallower to the deeper, making the campus a platform for students to develop their talents. Principal Lee Kang Pan leads the teaching team to create a high-efficiency language learning experience. By designing diversified teaching strategies and taking care of learning diversity, students can master the key to learning English well, continuously add value to themselves, and seize development opportunities.

Pay attention to English application ability and promote classroom interaction and communication

The school attaches great importance to students' English expression ability. When students are willing to "speak" English in class, it means that they are actively engaged in class, participate in it, and can deeply understand the teaching content instead of just copying notes. Students can not only digest the acquired knowledge and express it in their own language, but they can also answer the teacher's questions and share their own opinions, thereby promoting peer communication. "When students are good at expressing their opinions to others, it helps promote their overall development and is beneficial to the whole life. And students can show a polite temperament and can talk happily with anyone. This is also the goal that the school hopes to achieve."

Comprehensive English school-based curriculum catering for learning diversity

For students with different learning progress, personal characteristics and academic abilities, the school continues to optimize teaching strategies, take care of learning diversity, and design school-based courses tailored for students. In the past few years, the school has continuously adjusted the content of its school-based curriculum to match English teaching, arranging science and geography subjects in one of the junior high school classes to be taught in English to help students successfully transition to English elective courses in senior high schools. The school will also promote "English extended teaching activities" in other subjects to implement the concept of inter-disciplinary learning so that students can learn English vocabulary and sentence structures related to professional knowledge. With the English learning platform, students can learn through the Internet anytime and anywhere, cultivating independent learning habits.

Optimize courses and make good use of extra class hours

In response to the Education Bureau's policy on optimizing high school core subjects, the teaching team made good use of the freed class time and specially optimized the high school English curriculum, adding two additional enrichment classes and reading classes a week. Enrichment classes provide them with additional training in listening, speaking, reading, writing, etc. The English Department hopes to cultivate students' perseverance to overcome difficulties, the courage to contact and use English on campus, and then practice it in daily life, learning and applying it. In addition, the teaching team uses vivid teaching methods to design multimedia teaching materials that meet students' needs to enhance students' learning efficiency and interest.

Participate in competitions and apply what you have learned to promote recitation culture

The school actively encourages students to participate in different English competitions and practice what they have learned. Every year, students are arranged to participate in English recitation activities and collective recitation competitions. They can not only practice speaking and language sense, but also broaden their learning horizons through off-campus competitions. The teachers of the English subject will provide a series of support and guidance to the participating students so that they can perform their best on the competition field. Assistant Principal Ho Ding-yi, head of the English subject, said: "Students at all levels actively participate in English recitation activities, and the participation rate continues to increase every year, which reflects the students' learning initiative and the effectiveness and importance of regular English activities." Not only did the students achieve excellent results in the inter-school recitation festival, the junior high school students were also committed to promoting the recitation culture, performing recitations in the weekly hall, motivating other peers to participate in English competitions, and creating a pleasant and positive learning environment.

Create a campus English environment and diversify English activities

A strong English context helps students learn and use English naturally and improves their cross-cultural communication and understanding abilities. The school flexibly allocates on-campus and external resources, hires three more full-time foreign teachers, and organizes diversified English learning activities to provide immersive language experience. The school organizes a large number of English activities, among which the English Speaking Day every Monday is the most abundant, with high density and high participation, and the results are naturally remarkable. The school specially arranges different special English activities during lunch period, including booth games, spelling bees, movie appreciation, personal speech competitions, etc. The school's TV English program English Explorer provides students with opportunities to practice their English.

English classes in junior high schools include "storytelling" and drama training, and senior high school activities include BWWTC Got Talent, BWWTC The Voice and joint school exchanges to consolidate English expression skills in a variety of ways. The school is determined to provide students with more opportunities to be exposed to English and to apply the knowledge they have learned, so that an English atmosphere can be spread throughout the campus.

At the same time, the school has specially set up English conversation classes taught by foreign teachers to provide different knowledge points such as correct pronunciation, natural oral expression and cultural background to help students develop authentic English speaking skills. The school also arranges for collaborative teaching between foreign teachers and English teachers, combining different professional knowledge and teaching experience, and adopting a group teaching model to create a high-quality and rich language environment for students, promote interaction and cooperation among students, and cultivate common abilities such as teamwork and communication skills. The English subject also cooperates with other subjects across subjects to organize different activities, such as participating in the Poetry Remake Competition of the Education Bureau with the visual arts subject, cooperating with the physical education subject at the Sports Festival, and co-organizing the Ice cream Project with the Girl Guides.

Transition Program for Secondary One Freshmen to Promote Peer Learning and Exchange

The school attaches great importance to the transition and English learning of Form 1 freshmen. It not only designs school-based English transition textbooks, but also holds Form 1 pre-school basic classes during the summer vacation. Through interactive games, freshmen can easily learn English, get to know the campus, and preview the learning model of middle school. In order to allow new students in the Secondary One English class to be exposed to English-specific words in various subjects and master the learning skills earlier, the school has also specially arranged English learning transition classes for them.

After the start of the school year, the school immediately launched the "Navigation Plan" to pair high school students with freshmen and encourage them to participate in various English activities together. Through these activities, freshmen receive guidance on reading and conversational skills, and are able to use English effectively and naturally in daily campus life, helping them integrate into the learning atmosphere on campus and create an environment of mutual learning and support.

Promote the professional development of teachers to achieve mutual learning in teaching

The school not only actively promotes students' academic performance, but also attaches great importance to the continuous professional development of the teaching team and promotes teachers' reflection, analysis and problem-solving abilities on teaching, thereby improving learning and teaching effectiveness. School teachers will hold open classes and classroom research. By discussing teaching content, preparing lessons, and observing each other's teaching process, they will promote the network of connections and collaboration between teachers in various subjects, and achieve the growth of the teaching profession. In addition, the school cooperates with the Education University of Hong Kong to participate in the "Leadership for Learning Community for English e-learning and speaking teaching in Secondary 1", forming a joint school English teacher community to design a pilot classroom for Secondary 1 English, making full use of online resources and flexible use of e-teaching. Through rich teaching plans, such as lectures, classroom research, open classes, peer exchanges, etc., teachers can understand the latest trends in education, communicate and share practical teaching methods and strategies with their peers, and then return to school to create more learning situations and opportunities for students to comprehensively improve students' Chinese language abilities.