On 8th October, 2011, our Principal, Ms Agnes Tang & Language Across Curriculum Coordinator (LAC), Mr Edward Chu, were invited to conduct a sharing on ‘Strategies to promote the use of English as the Medium of Instruction (MOI) to the 18 Tung Wah Secondary Schools.  An indepth sharing as to the strategies to prepare our MOI Focus Inspection in January 2011 were discussed.  Teachers were brought to understand the Language policy and progress of implementation of the Langugae Fine-tuning policy as well.  We also shared with the audience on our MOI FI experience and how we worked with the QAD inspectors during the inspection.  Attention was drawn to see how and why the inspectors made the following comments like:

1.  Our school is capable of formulating a sound Cross-curricular Action Plan of promoting learning and teaching in English effectively.
2. Strong effort has been made in the enhancement of English learning as a whole-school endeavour.
3. The Bridging programme and EMI Learning Kit that were developed in August 2010 were appropriate and effective which geared to students’ learning needs and catered for their diversity.
4. In the use of language to facilitate learning, all lessons observed were effective.
5. Teachers are professional and their mastery of English is highly proficient.
6. Most important of all, students assume a very positive attitude towards learning in English and they demonstrate ability to learn effectively in the medium of English.
7. An English-rich learning environment is beginning to take shape and there has been strong consensus among teachers, students and parents.
8. Several efforts which they value in particular include intensive attention being paid to the whole-school approach to English learning, the learning of vocabulary, the setting up of English Campus as well as Liberal Studies Campus and Green Campus for convenient learning in English, cross-curricular writings and inter-disciplinary learning project coordinated by the subject of Integrated Humanities, to name but a few.
9. Developing student self-learning capacity is seen as one of our foci and it is progressing at a steady pace.
10. The inspection team concluded that ‘our progress has been promising’ so far, which in our opinion is quite a praise and it is an encouragement to tell us that all our hard work did pay and our students have been making very pleasing progress.

 

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Joint Secondary Schools Professional Development Workshop

Theme:       Preparation for MOI Focus Inspection
Date :          8th October, 2011 (Saturday)
Speakers:    TWGHs S. C. Gaw Memorial College
                   (1)      Principal, Ms Agnes Tang
                   (2)      LAC Coordinator: Mr Chu Yuk Wo

A.  Rundown:

Time	Content	Speaker
Part I (10 minutes)	Experience Sharing on Inspection Process and Follow-up Work	LAC Coordinator, Mr Edward Chu
Part II (45 minutes)	Strategies to Promote the Use of English as the Medium Of Instruction	Principal, Ms Agnes Tang
(30 minutes)	Learning & Teaching for Lessons Using English as the Medium of Instruction & S C Gaw Focus Inspection Report Reading