Social SciencesEducation

This programme aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to become effective programme planners, and trainers in adult and vocational education institutions, teachers of post-secondary education colleges, as well as human development personnel in corporations and businesses.

This programme is suitable for Trainers in commerce, industry and public sectors; Teachers in vocational, technical, professional, community and adult education; Personnel involved in programme management, administration and human resources development. The course is open to applicants without prior teaching or training experience.

爲具有一定普通話水平，已從事普通話教學工作或準備從事普通話教學工作的人士而設。 形成正確的普通話教學理念；瞭解語言學及教育學基礎知識；掌握普通話常用的教學方法和步驟；能獨立管控和有效實施普通話的課堂教學。

教育局實施特殊教育政策的主要目標，是鼓勵有特殊教育需要的兒童盡量在普通學校接受教育。本學院特別為各級教師、學校行政人員、家長及相關人士（學校社工、教學助理）提供相關的支援及培訓，課程理論與實務並重。

This programme aims to provide students with cutting-edge information and practical experience to pursue a coaching career in youth sports, tertiary and Olympic or professional sports. Students in the programme will learn current practices in sport identification and development, coaching methodology, sport psychology, applied biomechanics, strength and conditioning, application of research, and the administration of sport programs. It will enhance their understanding of coaching programming to meet the specific needs of clients that they are supervising in the community. 

This course is designed for ESL teachers / learners to enhance their knowledge and skills in teaching and producing English writings for academic, disciplinary and research purposes. It will use product-focused, process-oriented and genre-based approaches to help the participants generate texts that may conform to professional academic requirements in terms of genre conventions, rhetorical structures and discoursal features. The instructor will assist course participants analyse model texts and journal articles in relevant literature and enable them to develop effective instructional strategies on writing skills. Constructive feedback and practical suggestions will be provided to individual writing products on content, structure  and language.

社會科學包括社會、經濟、政治、法律、教育、心理、語言、文化及社會工作等學科。本課程讓從事學術研究的學員了解不同類型的社會科學研究原理、目的、概念、問題和道德規範，搜集正確資料的技巧，檢索及選用合適的文獻，判斷資料內容的真確和可靠性，通過質與量的研究，撰寫內容和結構恰當的學術文章/報告/論文，並協助學員開展研究計劃。導師將為每名學員的研究專案提供意見。

本課程嘗試運用成長心理學及教育心理學的角度出發，探討教育的目的，過程與作用．並附以最新的研究發展作為參考。

導賞員訓練課程系列包括香港中西建築、歷史文化、生態古蹟教育及博物館教育導賞，務求讓學員對香港歷史文化及古蹟教育有較深入的了解，並通過實習課，有助學員成為稱職的導賞員，進而從事教育導賞的相關活動。

本課程旨在讓學員進一步了解九龍的生態及歷史文化，以魔鬼山和鯉魚門為重點，並進行戶外考察及實習。

This course is specifically designed for teachers and learners who wish to acquire practical and effective knowledge and skills in teaching and learning ESL/EFL/EAL in the local context. Special emphasis will be placed on the learning goals, needs, expectations and problems of ESL/EFL/EAL students of different ages in acquiring listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The content will introduce the major Second Language Acquisition theories, relevant pedagogical approaches, innovative instructional designs and effective classroom strategies for teaching and learning English as a target language and sociocultural discourse through task-based learning, communicative teaching and content-language integrated models

This course aims to provide a forum for course designers and tutors to gain a deeper understanding about outcome-based assessment and to exchange their experience gained in the actual assessment process.