English

1. English Ms. LEUNG Yuet Ha 梁月霞 GCEPSA Tseung Kwan O Primary School 葛量洪校友會將軍澳學校 Ms. AU Yu Ping 區如冰 Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School 仁愛堂田家炳中學

2. Curriculum Planning for Using Knowledge Forum (KF) • Aims • Equip students’ independent learning skills • Encourage students to write English freely • Meet the TSA writing requirement

3. Before using KF , I am ….. • Full of queries • my students are low banding • How can I compare a Chinese writing example of a secondary school with my school? • Lack of confidence • My students never write English in paragraphs • My students never get into groups of 4 and discuss in English.

4. When using KF , my mentor….. • Planned curriculum writing tasks with me • Set new scaffolds • provided on-line dictionary website • taught students how to use KF technically

7. When using KF, my mentor….. • Taught students how to write meaningful notes • Gave instant feedback of my students’ performance • *we are partners , • learning community

8. Using KF

10. Impact on Me • Students did not fear of writing English • Students liked to read each other’s notes → peer learning • Dramatically increase of vocabularies not taught by teacher • Immediate assessment by Applets • Teacher hates going back to the traditional way of marking → Rubrics / portfolio

11. Applet (Assessment Tool)

12. Reading View

18. New vocabularies

21. My Reflection • Students did not fear of writng English • Students like to read each other’s notes → peer learning • Dramatically increase of vocabularies not taught by teacher • Immediate assessment by Applets • Teacher hates going back to the traditional way of marking → Rubrics / portfolio

22. Rubrics