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.

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. 

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。

課程由長者學苑發展基金贊助，透過授課和參觀，讓長者重組及整理個人專業知識和職場心得，並掌握聽眾心理，加強傳意技巧和溝通能力，進而向社區長者和學校師生分享專業和職場心得。課程內容包括長者家居安全與簡易維修、職安健及創業的知識。(長者學苑發展基金贊助)

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。

本課程是〈歷史文化及古蹟教育導賞課程〉(屯門區)，旨在讓學員一起探索屯門早期考古發掘與香港史的關係，進而深入認識屯門的歷史變遷，獨特宗教文化，並欣賞屯門的中西建築。課程有面授、戶外考察及實習等多元學習模式。

Selecting a valid and reliable research process and acquiring the skill for writing quality research literature are the pre-requisites to conducting successful studies in education and social sciences. This course is specifically designed for educational professionals, social science practitioners and advanced research students who intend to carry out quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods research projects.  The participants will learn about the pragmatics of major research methodologies and methods, analysis of seminal journal articles, and writing effective research proposals and reports. The participants will receive appropriate guidance, constructive feedback and practical suggestions on their research tasks.

This course is specifically designed for ESL/EFL/EAL teachers and learners to improve their skills in crafting written texts effectively for academic, business and research purposes. It will use product-focused, process-oriented and genre-based approaches to help participants produce quality texts that can conform to academic and workplace requirements, genre conventions, rhetorical structures and discoursal features. The writing instructor will help students conduct rhetorical analysis of model texts in educational, vocational and research literature and scaffold them to write collaboratively and independently.  Constructive feedback and practical suggestions will be provided to individual writing products on content, structure and language

Grammar is the backbone of English and without it, the meanings and functions of the language are completely lost. This course introduces to ESL/EFL/EAL teachers, students and professionals the comprehensive knowledge of English syntactic structures in terms of Functional and Prescriptive Grammar. Applying syntactic rules correctly can facilitate both spoken and written communications, efficient negotiation of complex meanings, and effective analysis of English rhetoric for academic and vocational purposes. The emphasis is on using grammar not just as a set of rules but also as the functions of communication in terms of field, tenor and mode

「全人教育」能啟發學生熱愛生命、尊重他人和嚮往學習，以批判方法去思考人生價值和生存意義，在生活中培養尊重、關懷和接納別人等正確觀念。 課程協助家 長、教師和社工了解「全人教育」的概念、理論和實踐方法，進而培育兒童和青少年，提昇他們的多元智能及商數 Multiple Intelligences and Quotients (IQ, EQ , PQ, CQ, AQ 及 SQ)，促進德智體群美靈的平衡發展，使他們成長、成功、成器及成才，令他們有更大能耐應付各類學習、專業需要和社會壓力。