Login Success Gearing Up Schools and Parents - Supporting Non-Chinese Speaking Kindergarten Students in Learning Chinese
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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.
Area of Support
The areas of support in the 2023/24 school year are:
● Enhance support services for non-Chinese speaking children in kindergartens
● Promote the development of Chinese language teaching and learning for non-Chinese speaking children
● Provide a sustainable professional platform for disseminating and transferring knowledge in teaching non-
Chinese speaking children
● Develop a learning framework to support non-Chinese speaking children in learning Chinese
● Provide educational support programs for non-Chinese speaking parents to foster school-home collaboration
Aims
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For Teachers |
● Provide teaching resources ● Enhance teaching confidence ● Develop a school-based curriculum ● Improve communication skills |
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For Non-Chinese Speaking Parents |
● Guide parents in assisting their children's Chinese language learning ● Enhance parent-child communication skills ● Provide a parent learning community ● Introduce pathways for children's further education |
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For Non-Chinese Speaking Students |
● Foster a positive learning attitude and values ● Cultivate interest in learning Chinese ● Enhance listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Chinese ● Assist in integrating into the local community |
Who We Support
Schools that have successfully participated in this program (including non-Chinese speaking specialist teachers, frontline teachers, 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.
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Program Features
A. Support Modes
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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 :
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Perseverance |
Responsibility |
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National identity |
Integrity |
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Care for others |
Empathy |
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Respect for others |
Law-abidingness |
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Commitment |
Diligence |
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. CHOW Pui-ling Catherine,
Ms. WONG Wai-Tung Alison, Ms. CHAN Tsz-man Jamie,
Ms. WONG Lok-yin Hilda, Ms. YIP Man-hei Hana
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