1 Experience Sharing on Specialised Teaching in English Language in Primary Schools ( & ) Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road) Presented by Miss To Siu Yin, Rebecca

2 Duties in the English Panel  Teach 2 P1 & 1 P5 classes (24 periods per week; each lasts for 35 minutes)  Deputy English Panel Chair  P.5 English Level Leader  Teacher-in-charge of the English choral speaking team for the Speech Festival

3 Duties in the English Panel  Coordinate entries for the Speech Festival (English classes)  Provide enhancement training for top English writers (P4 & P5)  Assist the curriculum leader, PSM(CD), to coordinate English courses offered by a service provider

4 Development in the learning & teaching of English

5 Strategies for learning & teaching  Develop strategies & supplementary materials for the learning & teaching (L&T) of phonics (P1)

6 Strategies for learning & teaching

7  Adapt the “process writing” strategies for the L&T of writing (P.5)

8 Strategies for learning & teaching

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10 Strategies for learning & teaching

11 Reading  Develop lesson plans & materials for big book shared reading & related activities (P1)  Use e-books as supplementary reading materials & develop post-reading activities (P1)

12 Reading

13 Reading

14 Catering for learner diversity  Design tasks to cater for learner diversity (P1)  Provide enhancement training for the top writers (P4 & P5)

15 Consolidation  Design a special Halloween programme for consolidation of sentence structures, vocabulary and phonics (P1)

16 Consolidation

17 Consolidation

18 Consolidation  Design end-of-unit consolidation tasks for students (P5)

19 Assessment  Assess students’ performance and design follow-up exercises (P.5)  Modify the question types & assessment criteria of speaking exam papers to familiarize students with the TSA in light of the insights gained in the Seed Project (P5)

20 School-based English curriculum development  Develop the framework of school-based English curriculum concerning listening & speaking at all levels

21 Collaboration  Have regular co-planning meetings with teachers teaching the same level for developing L&T strategies and materials as well as curriculum evaluation  Have meetings with the English Panel Chair, Curriculum Leader, Level Leaders & other ST teachers for the development of the subject & the framework for the school- based English curriculum

22 Reflection

23 Gains  Set up an image of an English-speaking person  Provide an enriched environment for students to use English  More time for co-planning meetings to develop L&T strategies and materials  Evaluation of L&T of a class helps to improve L&T of another class of the same level

24 Gains  Improvement in English as a result of frequent use  Foster professional growth and development in L&T of English Language

25 Losses  Heavy workload of marking  Focused marking (P5)  Lost the enjoyment of teaching Music  Integrate elements of music into English learning & teaching e.g. using songs, rhymes & poems  Coordinate recorder playing interest groups Possible Solutions

26 Thank you!