Conducted the first session of Learning Circle for EDB Tuen Mun Regional Office

The Learning Circle is convened by the EDB Tuen Mun Regional Office, for the professional development of primary school teachers of English in the district. Ten schools have taken part in the Learning Circle, with two teachers coming from each school. The Learning Circle involves peer lesson observation. The focus for the first round of observations is questioning techniques.

Ming Pao column (Bilingual Facebook): Issue 2

How to say unlike, unfriend, etc., in Chinese

Published the first episode of my Teachers' Stories podcast on the CUHK Podcasting platform.

http://podcast.cuhk.edu.hk/teacherstory/

Department lunchtime Seminar: Storytelling as Pedagogy?

My poster at CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2009 received "Commendation" from Organising Committee

Presented a poster, titled “Spice up your teaching with digital stories” at the CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2009.

Conducted a workshop on digital storytelling ...

for the English Department, Sacred Heart Canossian Primary School.

Dean's commendation on outstanding teaching

Second Term, 2008-09:

DEP5102A: Subject curriculum and teaching (English)
ETM6804: Listening and Speaking: Teaching and Learning

Uploaded "How I Taught Myself Phonics" to YouTube

Speaker: OUP Synthetic Phonics Workshop for Parents

(Aug 26) Conducted the second part of the workshop on digital storytelling

New episode posted on Teachers' Stories: Silent Gratitude

New episode posted on Teachers' Stories: Silent Gratitude

http://paulsze.podomatic.com/entry/2009-08-23T07_18_12-07_00

Conducted Part One of a workshop on digital storytelling

http://digitalstorytellerpaul.wikispaces.com

New episode posted on Teachers' Stories

Slidecast on Synthetic Phonics uploaded to Slideshare

Synthetic Phonics for ESL Children in Hong Kong

View more presentations from paulsze.

Interviewed by Hong Kong Daily News on learning of English by young children in HK

Presented a poster at ED-MEDIA 2009

Presented a poster at the 2009 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 22-26, 2009.

Submitted a paper proposal to GloCALL 2009

GloCALl 2009: The Globalisation and Localisation in Computer-assisted Language Learning Conference 2009

Presented at a media briefing the results of the first study in Asia of the effectiveness of synthetic phonics for ESL school children.

Reviewed a manuscript for New Horizons in Education

Interview with U Magazine published in issue of 5 June 2009

Paper presented at the European Conference for Academic Disciplines

European Conference for Academic Disciplines, June 1-4, Bad Hogastein, Salzburg. Paper: "Effectiveness of synthetic phonics for schoolchildren in Hong Kong: An exploratory study".

New episode on my podcast: Every lesson is a new lesson

http://paulsze.podomatic.com/entry/2009-05-13T21_49_40-07_00

Interviewed by U Magazine on phonics learning in Hong Kong

Adviser, Peer Lesson Observation Day (English) at Canossa Primary School (May 13)

Speaker, ELT Seminar for Primary and KG Principals and Teachers

Topic: The teaching and learning of phonics in Hong Kong, and the promises of Synthetics Phonics

Organised by Oxford University Press (China); Number of attendees: 230

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at the Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences

Conference of the International Journal Arts and Sciences, June 1-4, Salzburg, Austria.
My paper: "Synthetic phonics for ESL children in Hong Kong: An explorative study"

Received the Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2007-08 ...

... at the Faculty Dean's Honours List cum Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2007-08 Award Presentation Ceremony, March 14, 2009.

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at ED-MEDIA 2009

ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications to be held in Honolulu, HI, USA, June 22-26, 2009.

http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/

Faculty representative on work group on interactive classrooms

Faculty representative on a work group convened by Prof. Billy So, to explore establishing interactive classrooms in new teaching blocks on campus.

Appointed a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the University College of the Cayman Islands

Conducted a workshop for the English Dept., Caritas Fanling Chan Chun Ha Secondary School

topic of workshop: Phonics teaching: What's in it for me?

Honorary Curriculum Consultant, Programs for the Gifted and Talented, CUHK

(From Jan, 2009 to December 2010)

Presented a paper at the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia; held in Singapore

Sze, Paul. (2008). Hong Kong students’ awareness of Cantonised pronunciation of English. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia: Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World; Singapore, December 4-6, 2008.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), UK

The Royal Society of Arts

Appointed Consultant by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau of Macau SAR

Appointed by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau of the Government of Macau SAR as Consultant to an expert group for drafting a curriculum framework and the attainment targets for English Education for the Macau school system.

New book chapter published in Processes and Process-orientation in Foreign Language Teaching

Sze, Paul. (2008). An online peer lesson observation platform for English language teachers in Hong Kong. In W.M. Chan, K.N. Chin, M. Nagami, & T. Suthiwan (Eds.), Processes and process-orientation in foreign language teaching (pp. 193-209). Singapore: Centre for Language Studies, National University of Singapore.

The Third HKPISA Report published

Co-investigator in Third Hong Kong PISA Study (Principal investigator: Professor Esther Ho)

New book chapter published in "Developing Teachers and Developing Schools in Changing Contexts"

Sze, Paul. (2008). Nurturing teacher leadership qualities through computer conferencing: A study of teachers’ online interaction patterns. In J.C.K. Lee & L.P. Shiu (Eds.), Developing teachers and developing schools in changing contexts (pp. 419-436). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Attended a HAAL Seminar

Seminar "Our Words of their Words?", by John Milton, HKUST; seminar organised by the Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics.

Guided Gareth Chan to produce a digital story

Gareth Chan is a boy studying Grade 3. He recently had a trip to Tung Chung with his family, and two visitors from England. Gareth took some photos during the trip, and wrote it up in his blog. I guided him to produce a digital story based on the photos and the blog entry, using Windows Movie Maker. This experience confirmed for me that even a Primary 3 student may have enough I.T. competence to produce digital stories.

Poster for eLearning Expo 2008 published in Carnegie Commons

My poster titled "Wikis for Professional Sharing"
http://www.cfkeep.org/users/13298/wikis for professional sharing
Carnegie Commons:
http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/

Poster presentation at eLearning EXPO: Excellence Online 2008:

Wikis for Professional Sharing”;
Expo Organised by CLEAR and ITSC of CUHK; 17/10/2008.
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/eLearning/expo/Abstracts.pdf

Book chapter to be included in "Accomplishment and Challenges of Hong Kong Basic Education"

Cecilia Ka Wai CHUN, Paul SZE, & Sui Chu HO. "Reading Habits, Reading Attitude and Reading Performance", chapter to be included in the book "Accomplishment and Challenges of Hong Kong Basic Education" to be published by CU Press.

Member (Institutional Representative), LPATE, Subject Committee, HKEAA

Poster proposal accepted for eLearning Expo 2008, CUHK

Poster title: Wikis for professional sharing
CUHK eLearning Expo, October 17, 2008.
Poster presentation: 12:30 to 2:00 pm

Member, EDB Focus Group (Primary English) 2008-09 for Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Attended the PGDE 2007-08 Graduation Ceremony

Conducted pre-test for Hong Kong synthetic phonics study at HKBCPS

Hong Kong Baptist Convention Primary School: 5 Primary One classes

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at ESEA Conference

ESEA, 2008: Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World, 4-6 December 2008, National Institute of Education, Singapore. http://www.ell.nie.edu.sg/esea2008/ESEAhome.html

The magical power of encouragement: The latest story on my Teachers' Stories podcast

Completed review of a manuscript for TESL Canada

My CLaSIC 2006 paper to be published in the book "Process and Process-orientation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning",

New episode on my podcast: Mandy has no rights to be loved

Two papers published in "Curriculum and Instruction: The Journey of Research and Practice"

Sze, Paul. (2008). Awareness raising activities for tackling individual differences in phonics learning at pre-intermediate level. In P.K, Fok et al. (Eds.), Curriculum and instruction: the Journey of research and practice (pp. 391-401). Chongqing, China: University of Chongqing Press. (2008.8)

Chun, K.W. & Sze, Paul. (2008). First language reading literacy assessment in PISA and second language reading curriculum and instruction in Hong Kong. In P.K, Fok et al. (Eds.), Curriculum and instruction: the Journey of research and practice (pp. 364-382). Chongqing, China: University of Chongqing Press. (2008.8)

My wiki on using wikis in ELT created

http://wikianPaul.wikispaces.com/

New episode on my podcast: The power of teachers' words

My podcast listed on Podcast Alley

My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-3f56b6e6cdcd1bb80de247008a5509e6}

New episode on my podcast: The Gift

The Gift

Completed review of a manuscript for Education Journal

Read-aloud of 'the Pulley' collected in Librivox

The Pulley, by George Herbert

Librivox Weekly Poetry.

To listen:
http://librivox.org/the-pulley-by-george-herbert/

Paper Proposal for ESEA Conference

Paper proposal submitted to the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia, Singapore December 4-6, 2008:


http://www.ell.nie.edu.sg/esea2008/ESEAhome.html

Completed review of a manuscript for New Horizons in Education

Launching ceremony, EeceNet, May 20

EeceNet: the Net for English in Early Childhood Education, a faculty website for assisting the professional development of ESL teachers in pre-school settings.

Speaker, Principals' Workshop, NET Section

Principal's Workshop: "Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching of English: from the Primary NET Scheme perspective"; organised by the NET Section, CDI, EDB.

Talk for S.4 students at CCC Mong Man Wai College

Gave a talk titled "Fan kill you: Funny mispronunciations in Hong Kong" to all S4 students at CCC Mong Man Wai College.

Response of the students, according to Miss Stephanie Yeung, the teacher who organised the talk:

Dear Paul,

Thanks again for your wonderful seminar. We've done a written evaluation with our students. The feedback is very positive. They responded that they learnt more about mispronunciations and have a higher awareness of pronunciation after the seminar. Also, one of my students wrote on the form and stated that "I like this seminar because I like Paul Sze!" Hah, you have some fans here!

For snapshots of the seminar, go to:
http://www.cccmmwc.edu.hk/
Click on snapshots of activities on the homepage; open May 13, 2008.

Visit to Li Cheng Uk Govt Primary School

Led a group of B.Ed (Lang Ed) Year One students on a visit to Li Cheng Uk Government Primary school.

Meeting with Audit Panel, Quality Assurance Council

Meeting with Audit Panel from the Quality Assurance Council, on their visit to CUHK for the CUHK QAC Audit; meeting the Panel in capacity of one of eight recipients of teh Vice Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Awards.

Workshop on Phonics for Ying Wa Primary School

"A for Apple, and for Bad Man"; staff development workshop for the English Department, Ying Wa Primary School.

Judge, ELT Rap Lyrics Competition, ELT Rap Community, CUHK

Completed review of a manuscript for TESL Canada Journal

Conducted a phonics workshop for the English Department, Caritas Chong Yuet Ming Secondary School

This workshop is organised by the SMILE Project of the Faculty of Education, CUHK.

Reading of Venus Transiens by Amy Lowell collected in Librivox

Click here to listen.

"Not just an English lesson": new episode of my podcast

Click here to get your own player.

Paper proposal accepted for presentation at WorldCall 2008

WorldCALL 2008, CALL Bridges the World, Fukuoka, Japan, 5-8 August 2008

Paper presentation proposal submitted to AsiaTEFL conference 2008

Paper presented at the CamTESOL Conference, Feb 23, 2008

Sze, Paul. (2008). Teaching phonics through awareness raising activities. Paper presented at the 4th CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching "Building Bridges to the World", Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 23-24 February 2008

Completed review of a manuscript for TESL Canada Journal

"Smile": my first video on Youtube

(I am grateful to Cheng Suet Wing, who provided me with the materials (photos and audio narration) after her voluntary teaching visit to a rural area of China.)

New publication: Online collaborative writing using wikis

Sze, Paul. (2008). Online collaborative writing using wikis. The Internal TESL Journal, Vol. XIV. No.1, January 2008. http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Sze-Wikis.html/

Conducted a workshop for the Govt Primary School Section, EDB

A whole-day workshop on lesson observation for English panel chairs and APSMs at Government Primary schools. Attended by 94 teachers and 10 school heads.Organised by Govt Primary School Section, EdB

PGDP class visited and observed by Professor Miki Shibata

Professor Miki Shibata, Dept of Language and Law, Okinawa University

Dean's commendation for outstanding teaching in second term, 2006/07

Courses commended:
DEP5102A SCT English (PGDE PRIMARY FULLTIME)
DEP5102G SCT English (PGDE PRIMARY PART-TIME)
ETM6804 Listening and Speaking: Teaching and learning (MA ELT)

Manuscript for Internet TESL Journal accepted for publication

Completed review of a manuscript for Educational Research Journal

New Episode, Teachers Stories: Don't laugh at me.

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Completed review of a manuscript for Journal of Basic Education

Manuscript reviewer for New Horizons in Education, Vol. 55 No. 2

Video of "Proud of you", sung by my MA students

My Reading of "My Prime of Youth is but a Frost of Cares" collected in Librivox

"My prime of youth is but a frost of cares" by Chidiock Tichborne, in Librivox Weekly Poetry, December 10, 2007.

Click to listen.

New Episode, "Teachers' Stories" Podcast: Making the World a More Beautiful Place

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My Teachers Stories Podcast: New Episode: The Unbreakable Tie

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Meeting with Expert Teachers for EeceNet

Attended Chung Chi College Graduation Ceremony

Conference paper for CLaSIC 2006 accepted for publication in the CLaSIC 2006 Book of Selected Papers

International Conference organised by the Centre for Language Studies, National Univesity of Singapore, December 7-9, 2006.
Paper: An online peer lesson observation platform for English language teachers in Hong Kong

Elected member of the Executive Committee, Hong Kong Educational Research Association

Abstract accepted for presentation at 4th CamTESOL Conference.

Co-taught 2 speaking lessons with Principal Sandra Lee

Class: S.1H School: Ka Chi Secondary School

Attended seminar by Prof. Terrence Wiley, Arizona State University

Topic: "Language diversity and education: Some lessons learnt, some not."