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Teacher training stepped up for TOC implementation
The Education Department is stepping up teacher training in preparation for Phase I of implementation of Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) in Primary 1 classes of 76 schools in this September.
A four-day School-based Preparatory Programme will be provided for all teachers in the 76 TOC schools from next month to July to further equip teachers for implementation of the curriculum.
The programme comprising talks, discussions, forums, workshops and reflection sessions will be held in individual schools with contributions from both lecturers of the Education Department's TOC Teacher Education Unit and panel chairmen of the respective school.
The TOC Teacher Education Unit will provide a proposed programme outline while teachers and lecturers will work together to tailor a programme according to the specific requirements of the school.
Participants will take an in-depth look at topics related to the implementation of TOC at school level such as Teaching and Learning, Catering for Individual Difference; Assessment and Reporting.
In addition, participants will work in groups on chosen areas of day-to-day operation such as the Scheme of Work, Assessment and Recording/Reporting Systems, Catering for Individual Differences, Time Tabling and Formation of Task Groups, Lesson Planning, etc. This will be followed by reflection and sharing sessions.
The School-based Preparatory Programme follows a series of two-day TOC seminars attended by 8,655 primary school teachers between January and June last year which introduced the concepts of TOC, and three-day TOC seminars for panel chairpersons which prepared them to become subject leaders in the TOC initiative.
The three-day seminars were held between November 1994 and March 1995 and attended by 2,292 panel chairmen from 1,080 government, aided and private primary schools, including special schools.
Meanwhile, the University of Hong Kong has been commissioned to conduct Workshops for School TOC Initiation between March 25 and late June 1995 in support of the implementation of TOC. These will be attended by principals and TOC Co-ordinators of the 76 Phase I schools.