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He said: "Apart from making learning a more pleasurable experience through pupil-centred activities, TOC helps pupils to relate learning to their daily experience, to learn how to learn, and to enhance their verbal and written abilities.
"It also facilitates early identification of their weaknesses and problems for immediate remedy before these are carried to higher levels. Tryouts at Primary 4 and 5 have given evidence of these functions of TOC.
"The introduction of TOC at Primary 1 also synchronises nicely with the teaching methodology common in kindergartens, that is, using themes, games and activities to aid learning, thus making the transition from pre-primary to primary education more natural and removes the adaptation problem of the very young pupils," the spokesman said.
The spokesman appealed to school heads, teachers, pupils, parents, teacher associations, tertiary institutions and publishers to work with the Education Department to make the implementation of TOC a success.
end/Tuesday, December 6, 1994
Seminar on open employment for the disabled
The Selective Placement Division of the Labour Department will organise a seminar on open employment for the disabled tomorrow (Wednesday).
The aim of the seminar is to promote employers' awareness of the employment needs of the disabled through better understanding of their working abilities.
There will be panel discussions, work demonstrations by the disabled, a video show and an exhibition.
The seminar is co-organised with the Rehabilitation Development Co- ordinating Committee Employment Subcommittee, major employers' associations and personnel managers' associations in Hong Kong.
Attention News Editors:
The opening ceremony of the Seminar on Open Employment for the Disabled will be held at 9.30 am tomorrow (Wednesday) in Room 401, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai.