Mission
In the modern world, effective schools need to focus on revitalization of their organizations and adaptation to changing environments. Almost daily, educators are confronted with demands from society to reform the organizational structure and educational processes. In order to survive in an ever-changing environment, Hong Kong schools have no exception and are required to transform themselves into learning organizations.
In this context, it is our mission to help schools to transform into learning organizations. When schools are learning organizations, they are more able to (i) shift their paradigms in daily managerial and teaching practice; (ii) initiate organizational change for continuous development; (iii) cope with the challenges created by recent educational reforms; and (iv) provide quality education for their students and quality services for the stakeholders concerned.
Objectives
Our projects serve the multi-purposes of assisting schools in:
developing their own models of school-based management (SBM) in the spirit recommended by the Education Commission Report No.7;
institutionalizing a self-evaluation framework in daily practices and acquiring the skills and techniques of school self-evaluation (SSE);
developing sets of school-based performance indicators (SBPIs) for use in school self-evaluation;
preparing for external school review (ESR), focus inspections (FIs) or whole-school inspections (WSIs) conducted by the Quality Assurance Division (QAD) of the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB);
cultivating a climate of organizational change to meet the challenges posed by the recent educational reforms in Hong Kong;
fostering a culture of organizational learning in the schools and facilitating them to transform into learning organizations.
One aim of HKCDEL is to initiate collaborative school development projects. Over the last three or so years, the Centre has initiated a series school improvement projects for the development of school capacity. Recent projects and workshops include:
Recent School Improvement Projects
by School Development and Evaluation Team
2012-2015
University-School Support Programme:
Quality Early Childhood Education: The Practice of Assessment for Learning and the Use of Portfolios in Kindergartens (Education Development Fund)
大學—學校支援計劃:
優質幼兒教育--「促進學習的評估」之實踐與幼稚園學習歷程檔案的應用 (教育發展基金)
The project aims to help Hong Kong kindergarten teachers to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning via practicing assessment-for-learning (AfL) and using portfolios in classroom. An AfL-PDICE Model, which integrates the practice of AfL skills and effective use of portfolios, is proposed as a framework for school development. This project is sponsored by the Education Development Fund (EDF) of the Education Bureau (EDB) for the three years, from 2012 to 2015. The success of the project will involve a tripartite collaboration among the School-based Professional Support Section of EDB, the School Development and Evaluation Team (SDET) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and teachers, students and parents from a total of 60 kindergartens in Hong Kong. Project activities include training seminars and workshops, school-based support, lesson observations, visits and meetings. The School Development Officers of CUHK will help the participating kindergartens and early childhood educators institutionalize Assessment-for-Learning (AfL) in their daily teaching and establish a school-based student portfolio system in the assessment exercise. Deliverables from the project include training packages of related themes, assessment tools, exemplars of student portfolios, and academic publications. Dissemination sessions, for examples, seminars and forums, will be organized, to allow professional exchange among early childhood educators. Research and academic papers concerning the effective use of assessment-for-learning and portfolios in kindergartens, as well as the impacts of the project on the participating schools will be published. In sum, the project aims to enhance of overall quality of early childhood education in Hong Kong.
2010-2012
Educational Leadership for Student Learning
「促進學生學習的教育領導」
背景:根據現有狀況評鑑對此計劃的需要
香港的學校正面對各種新的挑戰,需要持續發展、不斷進步,銳變為學習型組織,而學習型的組織,應在學習群體中發揮學習的效能。學習群體應包括學校不同層次的人員,包括學校的管理人員,如科組長、教師、甚至學生群體。教育改革中最重要的學制已差不多訂定,加上自二千年代起的課程改革已啟動了一段時間,焦點已極明顯的轉為課堂教學和提升學生的學習效能,特別在學生自主學習、學習差異問題和學習評估等問題上。因此,學校極需提升教師在課程和教學的專業知識和技能,以滿足學生學習的需要;再加上要提升中層人員在教學的領導技能,領導教師教學和評估教學成效的能力,學校實有極大的需要在不同層面上給予學校人員不同的培訓和技能。
目標:
(1) 讓教師掌握最新的促進教學的領導理論及知識;
(2) 讓教師習得發展課程和教學領導的方法和技巧;
(3) 培訓中層人員的課程及教學領導能力和觀課技巧;
(4) 讓教師掌握教導學生的自主學習方法及工具;
(5) 透過培訓提升教師高效提問的技巧;
(6) 培訓科組長發展校本的觀課策略,建構觀課、評課的校本工具;
(7) 與科組長共同備課,實施促進學習的評估及實踐學習方法的教授;
(8) 透過專業評課,同儕觀課,分析教學的實況,以達至反思教學的實踐;
(9) 互訪參與計劃學校的觀課/互教活動,增加專業社群的交流和學習機會。