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"HKEA is glad to accept the Government's invitation for it to administer the pilot assessment, which is a new and challenging area of work for the HKEA," Chairman of the HKEA, Mr Chow Ming-kuen, said.
Three subject committees will be formed for the pilot benchmark assessment to deal with the three languages: English, Chinese and Putonghua respectively.
About 1,200 teachers will be randomly selected from different types of schools to participate in the pilot exercise.
In order to ensure that the finalised benchmarks are reliable and appropriate, both new and serving teachers, with different qualifications and lengths of teaching experience will be selected.
The pilot written assessments will probably take place in the second quarter of 1998, whilst the classroom language observation will take place earlier, probably starting from the third quarter of this year.
ACTEQ proposed to implement the language benchmarks, once finalised, on new teachers as soon as possible, and the earliest date would be 1999. As for serving teachers, the Education Commission Report No. 6 recommended that they might be allowed 10 years to reach the benchmarks.
During the public consultation with teachers and the education sector held by ACTEQ in July 1996, there was general acceptance of the need for language benchmarking for enhancement of the language standard of teachers, as well as the proposed implementation time frame on new and serving teachers.
ACTEQ will, based on the experience of the pilot exercise, advise on the actual implementation timetable as well as the qualifications of teachers which will allow them to be considered for exemption from benchmarking.
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