14 -
Student Discipline Section has been set up
A student discipline section to provide professional support, guidance and training to schools on matters relating to student discipline has been set up by the Education Department this month.
Established in accordance with a pledge in the Governor's 1995 Policy Address, the section comprises 10 professionals including educational psychologists, discipline masters and guidance teachers, and four administrative and supporting staff.
There are two function units in this section: the administrative support unit and the operation support unit with three affiliated squads providing general off-site professional support and school-based intensive support services.
A department spokesman said in the first year, support services will be delivered to about 100 secondary schools in a general or intensive mode.
The specific duties of the student discipline section are:
to co-ordinate and monitor student discipline work in schools;
to formulate strategies and programmes to meet the needs of individual schools;
to provide professional support and enable exchange of ideas among schools on a regional basis;
to organise seminars and workshops on student discipline.
-
The section is inviting schools to participate in one of the two identical seminars - Positive Student Discipline in Schools on October 15 and 17 at the City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, during which participants will share concepts and experience in student disciple.
The two seminars will accommodate 600 school heads and discipline masters/mistresses. A circular letter on the seminars has been sent to schools.
End