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Professor Lieh Mak said the Task Force and the consultants would like to hear the views and comments of teachers, educationalists and the public before the consultants finalising the recommendations.
The first session will be held on Monday (July 8) from 6 pm to 8 pm at Lok Sin Tong Wong Chung Ming Secondary School, 161 Lok Sin Road, San Po Kong, Kowloon. It will be followed by a second session from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm on Tuesday (July 10) at Morrison Hill Technical Institute, 6 Oi Kwan Road, Wan Chai.
Professor Lieh Mak also called on headmasters, teachers and educational organisations to send in their written comments if they could not find time to attend the forum.
Written submission should be addressed to the Secretary, Task Force on Benchmarking, at Room 920, West Wing, Central Government Offices, Lower Albert Road.
The Task Force was set up in January in response to a recommendation of the Education Commission Report No 6 to language benchmarks for teachers as one of the measures to improve the language standard of students.
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Exhibition and seminars on Target Oriented Curriculum
A three-day exhibition and a series of seminars on Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) will be held at the Hong Kong Teachers' Centre from next Tuesday (July 9) to July 11.
Entitled "Collaboration: Key to Implementing Target Oriented Curriculum", the function is organised by the Education Department's Curriculum Development Institute to encourage collaboration between parents, teachers, schools, Education Department and academics in implementing TOC.
The Vice Principal of the TOC Assessment Unit, Mr Sou Hon-poo, noted that so far, more than 900 teachers from 180 schools had applied for some 2,600 seats of the 12 seminars.
Academics and experts will deliver speeches on TOC assessment and professional development of teachers while school heads and teachers will share their experiences in implementing TOC in those seminars.