Cross-stream

Project-based Learning

Queen Elizabeth School

Project Learning

one of the 4 key tasks under the

Education Reform

Project Learning

the key to students’ ownership of

knowledge

The Roles of the Principal

Policy-environment Builder Staff-mobilization Engineer Curriculum Pilot Resources Architect

The Roles of the Principal

the science and art

of

Leadership

Project Learning

2001 – 02 Preparation Year 2002 – 03 Implementation Year

Project Learning

Starting off without a

Perfect Plan but with a clear focus and

a definite direction

Cultivation of an atmospheric readiness for the launching of project learning

Making good use of staff development days

Encouraging staff to attend seminars on the issue

Building of Policy-environment

Enhancing staff’s professional receptiveness to the big climate

Soliciting staff’s consensus on project learning as a task of priority pursuit

Establishing project learning as a development focus of the school

Building of Policy-environment

Awareness

Identification

Internalization

Building of Policy-environment

Strategic Engineering of Staff Mobilization

Identifying core members of the team (coordinator and assistant coordinator)

Developing peer-influence approach

Core members to invite other teachers to join the team as teacher advisers

Consolidating team solidarity at the earliest possible stage

Steering of CurriculumSchool-based curriculum of Project-learning

Curriculum Design

Project learning being infused into existing curricula and time-table

Project learning not as a separate subject assigned separate lesson time

Steering of CurriculumCurriculum Focus All S1 students as target students

All S1 students divided into small groups each supervised by a teacher adviser.

( 5 to 6 students in each group )

Steering of Curriculum

Curriculum Approach

Cross-stream project-based learning

Cross-stream Project-based Learning

Curriculum Scope Cross - stream : Cross subjects Major subjects : Humanities subjects EPA, Geography, History syllabuses

to be trimmed by 10%

Integration of project learning activities with the normal curricula of other subjects and with the programmes of other functional committees

Coordination and coherence across various subject departments and functional committees concerned

Cross-stream Project-based Learning

Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements

Assignment of teaching duties Teacher advisers to teach S1

humanities subjects Teacher advisers as S1 class teachers

Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements

Time-tabling Arrangements Arrangements to facilitate outings and

mass programmes Arrangements to avoid disruption on no

rmal lessons of other subjects

Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements

Time-tabling Arrangements Teacher advisers’ free periods to coincide

with the library period of each S1 class One block of S1 afternoon lessons to be taken

up by class-teachers One last period in a cycle for all S1 classes to

be taken up by class-teachers

Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements

Other Administrative Arrangements Clerical support IT Team support Special funding Enlisting parental support (S1 Orientation) Tapping outside expertise

The Way Forward Sustaining and synergising staff com

mitment Transmission of expertise Building on strengths gained from ex

perience and evaluation

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