Wednesday, May 6, 2009

EL Dept Term-Report Meeting 英文部门期末报告会议

Attended the English Language Department Termly-Report Meeting. The nature of this meeting was for teachers from the EL Dept teaching Grades 7, 8 & 9 to come together to do a work progress report and discussion. The scope of the report (by the 3 level coordinators) covers the following areas:
(1) Resource preparation
(2) Programme (eg enrichment programme) progress, including preparation of pupils for competitions
(3) Pedagogy research progress (by small teams of teachers)
(4) Announcement of teachers having attended pedagogy/content-based seminars
(5) Exam papers setting
(6) Class progress based on assessment grades (MSG)
(7) Individual pupil's progress, esp pupils that require special attention (behavioural/learning difficulties), as well as
(8) Challenges faced in any of the above mentioned areas

The entire meeting as well as the report of the level coordinators was conducted in Chinese. Perhaps this serves as a reminder for our schools that language-learning should not deviate from its practical use, especially the spoken language. The awareness of creating an environment, as well as leveraging on any opportunity for the use of the language is essential as well, especially for language teachers who are the role-models of pupils learning the same language.

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