Cross-stream Project-based Learning

1. Queen Elizabeth School Cross-stream Project-based Learning

2. Project Learning one of the 4keytasks under theEducation Reform

3. Project Learning the key to students’ ownership of knowledge

4. The Roles of the Principal • Policy-environment Builder • Staff-mobilization Engineer • Curriculum Pilot • Resources Architect

5. The Roles of the Principal the science and art of Leadership

6. Project Learning • 2001 – 02 Preparation Year • 2002 – 03 Implementation Year

7. Project Learning Starting off without a Perfect Plan but with a clear focus and a definite direction

8. Building of Policy-environment • Cultivation of an atmospheric readiness for the launching of project learning • Making good use of staff development days • Encouraging staff to attend seminars on the issue

9. Building of Policy-environment • Enhancing staff’s professional receptiveness to the big climate • Soliciting staff’s consensus on project learning as a task of priority pursuit • Establishing project learning as a development focus of the school

10. Building of Policy-environment • Awareness • Identification • Internalization

11. Strategic Engineering of Staff Mobilization • Identifying core members of the team (coordinator and assistant coordinator) • Developing peer-influence approach • Core members to invite other teachers to join the team as teacher advisers • Consolidating team solidarity at the earliest possible stage

12. Steering of CurriculumSchool-based curriculum of Project-learning Curriculum Design • Project learning being infused into existing curricula and time-table • Project learning not as a separate subject assigned separate lesson time

13. Steering of Curriculum Curriculum Focus • All S1 students as target students • All S1 students divided into small groups each supervised by a teacher adviser. ( 5 to 6 students in each group )

14. Steering of Curriculum Curriculum Approach Cross-stream project-based learning

15. Cross-stream Project-based Learning Curriculum Scope • Cross - stream : Cross subjects • Major subjects : Humanities subjects • EPA, Geography, History syllabuses to be trimmed by 10%

16. Cross-stream Project-based Learning • Integration of project learning activities with the normal curricula of other subjects and with the programmes of other functional committees • Coordination and coherence across various subject departments and functional committees concerned

17. Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements Assignment of teaching duties • Teacheradvisers to teach S1 humanities subjects • Teacher advisers as S1 class teachers

18. Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements Time-tabling Arrangements • Arrangements to facilitate outings and mass programmes • Arrangements to avoid disruption on normal lessons of other subjects

19. Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements Time-tabling Arrangements • Teacher advisers’ free periods to coincide with the library period of each S1 class • One block of S1 afternoon lessons to be taken up by class-teachers • One last period in a cycle for all S1 classes to be taken up by class-teachers

20. Resources Deployment and Administrative Arrangements Other Administrative Arrangements • Clerical support • IT Team support • Special funding • Enlisting parental support (S1 Orientation) • Tapping outside expertise

21. The Way Forward • Sustaining and synergising staff commitment • Transmission of expertise • Building on strengths gained from experience and evaluation

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