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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1992

MR CHAN ALSO POINTED OUT THAT SGTS WOULD NOT BE THE SCHOOLS THEMSELVES.

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"SCHOOL HEADS WILL SELECT ONE OF THEIR EXPERIENCED TEACHERS A ᏚᏀᎢ . SINCE SGT POSTS ARE RANKED AT ASSISTANT MASTER (AM) LEVEL, PROMOTION RANK, NO DIFFICULTIES IN FILLING THEM ARE EXPECTED.

AS A

HE STRESSED THAT THE VERY CONCEPT OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL APPROACH, INVOLVING THE

SCHOOLS BY SCHOOL-BASED PROVISION OF GUIDANCE IN GUIDANCE TEACHERS WORKING TOGETHER WITH OTHER TEACHERS, WAS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE STUDENT GUIDANCE SERVICE.

WOULD

IN ADDITION, PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING FOR SGTS BE PROVIDED BY THE PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND TRAINING TEAM OF THE ED TO ENSURE THAT THE QUALITY OF THE SERVICE IS MAINTAINED, HE SAID.

SCHOOL "THE PROVISION OF ONE STUDENT GUIDANCE TEACHER TO EVERY

TARGET WHICH WOULD BE OR MORE IS AN ULTIMATE WITH 24 CLASSROOMS

SCHOOLS HAS CONSIDERED

BEEN SCHOOLING FOR PRIMARY IMPLEMENTED.

WHEN WHOLE-DAY

"THERE IS AS YET NO FIXED TIME-TABLE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION THIS IMPROVED PROVISION STANDARD.'

ON

OF

UP ΤΟ THE MONITORING OF PERFORMANCE, MR CHAN SAID IT WAS INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS TO MONITOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR TEACHING STAFF, INCLUDING THE SGTS.

"THE

PROFESSIONAL

SUPPORT AND TRAINING TEAM GUIDANCE SECTION OF THE EDUCATION DEAPRTMENT WILL, SUPPORT TO SGTS.

OF THE HOWEVER,

STUDENT PROVIDE

"MEMBERS OF THE TEAM WILL PAY REGULAR VISITS TO SGTS IN SCHOOLS ΤΟ HELP

REGULAR THEM HANDLE DIFFICULT CASES, AND WILL ORGANISE

SUPPORT AND MEETINGS AND SEMINARS TO PROVIDE THEM WITH PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

**

CHAN MR

NOTED THAT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WERE CURRENTLY PROVIDED BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT FOR SGOS RATHER THAN SGTS, SINCE THE LATTER POSTS HAD NOT YET BEEN CREATED.

GUIDANCE, UPON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL APPROACH TO

PRE-SERVICE TRAINING ALL SGTS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE COMPRISING A FOUR-MONTH FULL-TIME COURSE WHICH INCLUDES FIELDWORK SCHOOLS OVER A TEN-WEEK PERIOD, HE SAID.

IN

"THIS

COURSE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY PART-TIME MONTHS IN THE ORGANISATION OF PREVENTIVE SUPPORT GROUPS.

TRAINING

OF

PROGRAMMES

FIVE AND STUDENT

"IN ADDITION, A 10-MONTH PART-TIME REFRESHER TRAINING PROGRAMME WILL BE AVILABLE FOR EXPERIENCED SGTS.'

་་

ON WHETHER ANY INVESTIGATION HAD BEEN MADE TO FIND OUT IF

ΤΟ THEIR WERE

ADDITION REQUIRED TO TAKE UP TEACHING WORK IN DUTIES, MR CHAN SAID NO INVESTIGATION HAD YET BEEN MADE.

SGTS

OWN

/HOWEVER, HE