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Experience Sharing on Specialised Teaching in English Language in Primary Schools (19.12.2005 & 5.1.2006)

Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road)

Presented by Miss To Siu Yin, Rebecca

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Duties in the English Panel

Teach 2 P1 & 1 P5 classes (24 periods per week; each lasts for 35 minutes)

Deputy English Panel Chair P.5 English Level Leader Teacher-in-charge of the English choral

speaking team for the Speech Festival

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Duties in the English Panel

Coordinate entries for the Speech Festival (English classes)

Provide enhancement training for top English writers (P4 & P5)

Assist the curriculum leader, PSM(CD), to coordinate English courses offered by a service provider

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Development in the learning & teaching of English

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Strategies for learning & teaching

Develop strategies & supplementary materials for the learning & teaching (L&T) of phonics (P1)

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Strategies for learning & teaching

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Strategies for learning & teaching

Adapt the “process writing” strategies for the L&T of writing (P.5)

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Strategies for learning & teaching

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Strategies for learning & teaching

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Strategies for learning & teaching

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Reading

Develop lesson plans & materials for big book shared reading & related activities (P1)

Use e-books as supplementary reading materials & develop post-reading activities (P1)

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Reading

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Reading

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Catering for learner diversity

Design tasks to cater for learner diversity (P1)

Provide enhancement training for the top writers (P4 & P5)

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Consolidation

Design a special Halloween programme for consolidation of sentence structures, vocabulary and phonics (P1)

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Consolidation

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Consolidation

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Consolidation

Design end-of-unit consolidation tasks for students (P5)

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Assessment

Assess students’ performance and design follow-up exercises (P.5)

Modify the question types & assessment criteria of speaking exam papers to familiarize students with the TSA in light of the insights gained in the Seed Project (P5)

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School-based English curriculum development Develop the framework of school-based

English curriculum concerning listening & speaking at all levels

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Collaboration

Have regular co-planning meetings with teachers teaching the same level for developing L&T strategies and materials as well as curriculum evaluation

Have meetings with the English Panel Chair, Curriculum Leader, Level Leaders & other ST teachers for the development of the subject & the framework for the school-based English curriculum

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Reflection

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Gains

Set up an image of an English-speaking person

Provide an enriched environment for students to use English

More time for co-planning meetings to develop L&T strategies and materials

Evaluation of L&T of a class helps to improve L&T of another class of the same level

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Gains

Improvement in English as a result of frequent use

Foster professional growth and development in L&T of English Language

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Losses

Heavy workload of marking

Focused marking (P5)

Lost the enjoyment of teaching Music

Integrate elements of music into English learning & teaching e.g. using songs, rhymes & poems

Coordinate recorder playing interest groups

Possible Solutions

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Thank you!