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The 2nd Edition of Innovative Teacher Award Prize Presentation Ceremony and Seminars

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 10 December 2021 – Riding on the momentum of last year’s enthusiasm, Hong
Kong Education City (EdCity) organised the 2nd edition of Innovative
Teacher Award (ITA), with the mission to recognising teachers who effectively
adopt different educational technologies, ride on education theories and
innovative pedagogies to successfully actualise innovative education. The prize
presentation ceremony was successfully held today at the ‘Learning &
Teaching Expo 2021’, graced by the presence of the officiating guest, the
Under Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk Lin, JP
. Dr Choi presented the
awards to seven groups of awardees, recognising their great efforts and
contributions to driving educational reform.

A series of themed seminars were also
held, which gathered all awardees of the Innovative Teacher Award to exchange
ideas on successful factors and outcomes of innovative education and explore
how they utilise technology in transforming the curriculum and teaching
strategies, in response to the current pandemic and the new normal.

 

While
the ceremony was witnessed by a bunch of guests, Mr Victor Cheng, Executive
Director of Hong Kong Education City
kick-started the ceremony. In his
speech, he said: ‘The pandemic has lasted for almost 2 years and has brought
dramatic changes to education. eLearning, Blended learning, Innovative
Learning Design
are no longer unfamiliar concepts to us, educators have
gradually adapted to the new normal and transformed it with new teaching
strategies. The performance of this year’s participants is brilliant, with
diversified and vibrant learning designs, which demonstrated their innovative
perspective. We are thrilled to witness fellow educators are flexible in
utilising technology and creative teaching methods, which boosted teaching
efficacy and unleashed student’s potential. EdCity hopes the “Innovative
Teaching Award”
could encourage the education sector to
continuously innovate teaching pedagogies, foster professional exchanges among teachers,
and work shoulder to shoulder for the vision of future ready education.’

 

The officiating
guest, Dr Choi Yuk Lin, JP, the Under Secretary for Education, said, ‘In
the new era of education, teachers have to embrace innovative education through
the optimal use of technologies and innovative pedagogies to enhance teaching
effectiveness and unleash students’ potential.’ Dr Choi continued to congratulate
and thank all awardees for their hard work, ‘They have successfully introduced
innovation to education and improved effectiveness in learning, teaching and
assessment by harnessing technologies that are supported by education theories
and innovative pedagogies. Their exceptional achievements fully deserve the
distinguished awards.’

 

The
pandemic has resulted in a vibrant scene of innovative education. The
competition saw the enthusiastic participation of educators from primary and
secondary schools and from a wide spectrum of professional expertise. Introductory
videos and briefs on their teaching philosophies and strategies were submitted
months ago. A judging panel consisting of professors, veteran principals and
education experts evaluated the submissions and selected a total of seven
groups of primary and secondary school teachers as recipients of the award
(details of the awardees available in the background) for honouring their
efforts on driving curriculum reform through innovative teaching.

 

This
year’s ITA has introduced team awards in addition to the pre-existing
individual awards. The new team awards are set up to recognise teaching teams
who worked together in promoting education innovations in a whole-school
approach to cover various aspects, including innovative teaching methods,
curriculum design, team collaboration, teacher training, etc. The award
recognises teams who encouraged the school at all levels in putting innovative
education into practice and built a sound foundation for constructing future
schools.

 

Apart
from the Prize Presentation Ceremony, EdCity organised two seminars in the LTE
2021, themed ‘Enhancing Learning and Teaching Effectiveness with
Transformation of Curriculum and Pedagogies’
and ‘Path of Future
Schooling via a Whole-school Approach to Actualising Innovative Education’
.
Awardees of the ITA were invited to share their precious experience in
innovative education and how they gainfully used technologies as well as
reformed curriculum so as to mobilise their teaching peers to put innovation
into practice and boost learning and teaching efficacy.

 

In
the first session, four groups of ITA awardees shared their experiences in
renewing the curriculum design by utilising innovative technology, such as AR,
VR, 3D printing and EdTech in order to equip students with essential skills and
qualities in the 21st century, broaden students’ horizons in the local
community and global issues, as well as improve learning and teaching efficacy.
You may find the summary of the ‘Innovative Teacher Award’ Series: Enhancing
Learning and Teaching Effectiveness with Transformation of Curriculum and
Pedagogies seminar
below:

 



Shanghai Alumni Primary School


Teacher

Mr Siu Yin Tong

Title: Interdisciplinary Designed
Anti-Vibration Layer

 

The awardee incorporated the General Studies
theme ‘Earth’s disasters’ and created a STEM curriculum involving General
Studies, Mathematics, Computer subjects in order to inspire students’ design
thinking and construct an Anti-Vibration Layer for people living in the
earthquake-prone area. He addressed the impacts of the pandemic, redesigned
the curriculum, promoted blended learning and increased the proportion of
self-directed learning. He employed flipped classrooms and various digital
platforms for teaching, aiming to further improve students’ computational
thinking.

 



Sau Ming Primary School

 

Vice Principal

Ms Tsang Ka Man

Title: Competence-based Innovative Education

 

The awardee utilised the ‘Framework for 21st
Century Learning’ in curriculum design, which nurtured four aspects of core
competence, including students’ self-directed learning, thinking, social
motions and information technology. Through employing cross digital platforms
in the Mathematic subject, flipped classrooms, revision before class,
interactive assessment during class and personalised learning extension after
class, she designed diversified learning activities. Students could design
graphic questions on their own, which improved their problem-solving skills
and boosted creativity. Employing peer assessment could also promote more
interaction between students and improve their critical thinking and
communication skills.

 



PLK Anita L.L. Chan (Centenary) School

 

Director of Curriculum Development 

Mr Tam Tin Yau Simon

Teacher 

Mr Suen Wai

Teacher 

Ms Chiu Fung Yee

Teacher

Ms Chan Mei Ying

Title: Centenary School – VR Classroom

 

The team incorporated an Immersive Virtual
Reality System into the traditional experimental learning method to build a
‘VR Classroom’, which allows students with learning disabilities to feel as
if they are on a real-life occasion. This helps students to master life
skills and be able to handle emergencies and improve emotion management so
that they can face challenges in life and integrate into the community. The
team has created 360 degrees panoramic video/games, and together with multiple
choice questions, they could teach students various themes, such as taking
public transport, using the ATM machine, fire drills etc. and put what they
learned in VR into real-life occasions.

 



Christian Alliance S W Chan Memorial College

 


Vice Principal 

Mr Ng Sum Sum

Teacher 


Mr Tsang Cheung Chun

Teacher

Mr Seto Wah Sang

Teacher

Mr Liu Kin Hang

Teacher

Mr Yu Lee Kan

Title: Creative STEM Disease Prevention
Curriculum – 3D Print Masks

 

The team developed a Creative STEM Disease
Prevention Curriculum, which utilised STEM knowledge to design and produce
personalised 3D masks. They took science exploration as the lead, backed up
by engineering design and VR coding, to achieve new media self-directed
learning. They also joined computer and science subjects to teach together,
stressing the importance of DIY learning and inspiring students’ creativity.


In the second session, three groups of ITA awardees will share
their valuable experience in revising learning and teaching in the blended
learning environment. While the trend of future education inevitably
incorporates computational thinking and AI education into eLearning, cross-disciplinary
cooperation can bring a ground-breaking learning experience to students.
Meanwhile, in the 21st century, social-emotional learning for
students is another critical teaching area for post-pandemic education,
equipping students with necessary future skills.

 

You
may find the summary of the ‘Innovative
Teacher Award’ Series: Path of Future Schooling via a Whole-school Approach to
Actualising Innovative Education seminar
below:

 



SKH Holy Spirit Primary School

 

Vice Principal (Information)


Mr Chen Yi Hsin

 


Vice Principal (Curriculum)

Ms Sin Wing Sze

PSM

Ms Cheng Sau Ming

PSM

Ms Tang Yuen Mei

APSM


Mr Lee Man Leung

Title: Self-Developed C.A.S.T Unification,
Experience beyond Subjects

 

The team used school-based C.A.S.T
programmes to change the education ecology at school, teachers turned into
KOL to create video programmes, which incorporated knowledge of different
subjects, life skills and thinking logic. Through interesting videos and
livestreaming, they show various themes including Culture, Arts, Sports,
Spiritual, Skills and Technology, which increased students’ motivation to
learn during and after the pandemic. The themes are curriculum relevant, but
also includes non-academic knowledge, such as career planning, value
education, which help students to build a positive value system. The video
ideas are taken from daily life, and diversified teaching themes allow
students to taste different experiences in a relaxing and interesting learning
environment. For example, ‘Teacher’s Kitchen’ allows students to learn about
Hakka culture or incorporating stretching exercises into mathematics to
promote exercising at home. They also added in interactive elements, such as
voting instantly which is just like a TV programme.

 



S.T.F.A. Lee Kam Primary School

 

Vice Principal (Curriculum)


Ms Ip Bik Kwan

I.T. Senior Teacher 


Mr Chan Chi Yeung

General Studies Panel


Ms Wong Pik Yan

P.E. Panel

Ms Yeung Wing Tung

Title: Sustainable eLearning, Joyful
Calculating

 

The team promoted blended learning model,
and incorporated affective and social learning activities, which could help
students to build positive emotions, improve their resilience and learning
efficacy. The originally designed ‘Brain Break’ activity, in which students
have to make hand postures to respond to teacher’s tests, allows teachers to
diagnose and consolidate what students have learned. The ‘Emotional
Thermometer’ activity which is held before and after class could help
understand the change in emotions of students before and after class, and
build personalised lesson learning records for after class extensions and
promote self-directed learning.

 



The Education University of Hong Kong Jockey
Club Primary School

 


Assistant Principal and Coordinator
of Innovation & Technology

Mr Law Kam Yuen

 


Network and System Support Team Head

Mr Kwong Ling Chun

e-Learning Co-ordinator

Ms Cheuk Wai Han

Title: Practical Experience of Motivating
the Whole School for Innovative Education

 

The team promoted eLearning and blended
learning, which targeted teaching difficulties by employing different tools
and teaching methods, aimed to develop all-rounded blended learning under the
new normal, improved learning efficacy and students’ participation, took care
of learning differences and boosted quality of teaching. The school employed
the ‘enriched virtual mode’, which began with face-to-face teaching to
stimulate learning interest, then they consolidated the curriculum through
online classes and in-depth discussions, together with gamified learning model.
They continuously review and improve their curriculum and teaching methods,
to promote computational learning and AI education.

EdCity aspires to gather pioneers in
innovative education through the ‘Innovative Teacher Award’, foster innovative
development and professional communication among the education sector and build
a culture of sharing. We stand shoulder to shoulder with fellow teachers in
achieving ”Actualising Future Ready Education’.

 

Details of the ‘Innovative Teacher Award’https://www.edcity.hk/ita/en/


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