Background

Since 2019, the Education Bureau has commissioned our institution to organize a Chinese language support program for non-Chinese speaking kindergarten students. This program aims to provide professional support to kindergartens in Hong Kong that admit non-Chinese speaking children, enhance teachers' knowledge and strategies in teaching Chinese as a second language to non-Chinese speaking children and improve their ability in second language teaching skills.

In addition to providing a professional onsite mode for 17 local kindergartens and kindergarten-cum-nursery schools (including schools that admit non-Chinese speaking students), the project will also add an network support mode and invite 10 local schools to participate in the network mode. Organize no less than 3 joint school online activities to allow 27 schools in on-campus and online modes to study together to promote experience sharing and professional exchanges, thereby strengthening knowledge dissemination and consolidating results.

Area of Support 

The areas of support in the 2024/25 school year are:

●   Enhance support services for school children (including non-Chinese speaking children) in kindergartens

●  Promote the development of Chinese language teaching and learning for school children (including non-Chinese speaking children)      

●  Provide a sustainable professional platform for disseminating and transferring knowledge in teaching school children (including non-

     Chinese speaking children)

●  Develop a learning framework to support school children (including non-Chinese speaking children) in learning Chinese

●  Reflected in teaching content: Chinese cultural appreciation, ethnic and national security education and information technology are integrated into teaching

●  Provide educational support programs for non-Chinese speaking parents to foster school-home collaboration

Aims

Who We Support

Schools that have successfully participated in this program (including specialist teachers, frontline teachers, local students (including non-Chinese speaking children), and their parents).

Modes of Support 

Team Members will work with the kindergartens and conduct regular co-planning meetings, lesson observations and post-lesson discussions on the selected support area. We will further organize Professional development activities for participating kindergartens to enhance the knowledge transfer between their school-based experience.

Program Features

A. Support Modes

Co-planning meetings : Team members visit schools or conduct online sessions to assist teachers in lesson preparation.

Lesson observation : Team members visit schools to observe teachers' classroom instruction.

Post-lesson discussions : Team members provide professional guidance and feedback to teachers on their teaching performance after observation.

B.  Establishing Communities

●  Establish a professional learning community for teachers to provide a sustainable professional platform to

     develop knowledge dissemination and transfer of teachers' learning and teaching.

●  Organize a parent learning community to instruct parents in learning strategies to help their children learn

     Chinese, improve communication skills with their children, and promote care for their growth.

C.  Values Education

●  Using picture books or thematic teaching to promote values education through nurturing students the below ten values and attitudes :

Team Members

Programme Director ：Mr. PANG Chi-chuen Ken

Academic Advisor         :  Dr. CHEUNG Lin-hong, Dr. TSE Ka-ho

Support Team                ：Ms. CHENG Tsui-yee Connie,   Ms. WONG Wai-Tung Alison,

                                                     Ms. CHAN Tsz-man Jamie,   Ms. WONG Lok-yin Hilda, 

                                                     Ms. LIU Xiao-qing Sunny