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TOC teacher training in full swing
The majority of primary school teachers taking part in two three-day seminars on the Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) considered that the seminars were useful to the implementation of TOC, according to an end-of-course questionnaire survey.
The seminars, which commenced on November 22 and 29 respectively, were the first two in a series organised by the Education Department for all panel chairmen in the three core subjects of Chinese, English and Mathematics in 945 primary schools in the territory.
A spokesman for the Education Department said the seminars were organised to familiarise participants with teaching, learning and assessment in TOC, and the roles of the panel chairmen in implementing the curriculum.
The spokesman said out of the 226 teachers who responded to a questionnaire to evaluate the effectiveness of the two seminars, 153 (68 per cent) said the contents of the seminar were useful.
Overall, about 69 per cent of the respondents found the seminars helpful for them in implementing TOC in their schools.
The spokesman said most panel chairmen participated actively in the seminars and were very enthusiastic in finding ways and means to enhance implementation of TOC in their schools.
They were eager to learn more and commented that all teachers, not just panel chairpersons, should take part in teacher education programmes on TOC.
From February next year, the department will also organise four-day school- based preparatory programmes for the 70 Phase I schools to prepare their teachers of English, Chinese and Mathematics to implement TOC in Primary 1 from September 1995.
The spokesman said the implementation of TOC would be extended to higher levels year by year and by September 2000 TOC would be adopted throughout all classes in primary schools.
The spokesman stressed that TOC addressed the imminent needs of Hong Kong's education system.