New Publication: Reading habits, reading attitude and literacy performance

Chun, C.K.W., Sze, P., & Ho, E.S.C. (2013). Reading habit, reading attitude and literacy performance. In Ho, E.S.C. (Ed.), Multilevel Analysis of the PISA Data: Insights for Policy and Practice (pp. 61-79). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research.

Completed the last module for the Macao Teacher Professional Development programme

Completed the last module of the Professional Development Programme for the Key Primary English Language Teachers; organised by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Government of the Macao SAR.

New Publications in China

My 2 New Publications in China:
- (with a Writing Team at the Guangzhou Teaching and Research Institute): Student's Book 2 of the New English Course for Universal Education, in support of the 2011 National English Curriculum
- (in capacity as main writer): Teacher's Book 2

Published by Educational Science Publishing House, Beijing.

Started a new module for Macao's Key Teachers Professional Development Programme

Module 5: Selecting and using English Language coursebooks
Part of the Professional Development programme for members of the Key Teachers Scheme (Primary English Language teachers); organised by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Macau SAR Government.

Gave a seminar for Education Bureau's School-based Professional Support Section

Title of seminar: 'Towards a Better Understanding of English Language Teaching in Mainland China'
Audience: Particpants of the Scheme on Hong Kong Teachers’ Exchange Activities to the Mainland organised by the School-based Professional Support Section, Education Bureau

Gave a talk with Dr Benjamin Au Yeung at Caritas Wu Cheng Chung Secondary School

an event of the school's English Week
Topic: 'Englishes in Hong Kong'
Attendance: All students at the school and some teachers

Issue 1 of column in FAM Magazine

Issue 1 of column in FAM Magazine, pp. 88-90 published in  January 2013:

'The role of listening and speaking in language acquisition'.

Presentation in Guangzhou on the New English textbook for universal education

Topic: Thriving on the new National Curriculum for English and the revised primary English coursebook
Audience: About 300 core teachers from schools administered by the Guangzhou Education Burea

Presentation in Guangzhou to teacher-researchers of the Teaching and Research Institute, Guangzhou Education Bureau

Topic: Developing ESL teacher standards for Guangzhou
Audience: About 80 teacher-researchers from the 12 admin districts under the Teaching and Research Institute, GZ Education Bureau

Presented a seminar for Catholic Diocese primary schools

'From Good Teaching to Good Assessment Performance: The Case of TSA'

Jan 28, 2013
Seminar for the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Program, Hong Kong Diocesan Schools (English)
Participants: principals, PSMCDs, English panel chairs (total about 200)

Attended a seminar by Professor Mary Shepard Wong

Harmony, Cacophony, or Silence: English Language Teacher Collaboration in Hong Kong
Speaker: Professor Mary Shepard Wong, Azusa Pacific University, currently a Fullbright Scholar with the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK

Article 1 in FAM magazine published (January, 2013)

http://famworld.com.hk/

Appointed Honorary Curriculum Consultant, CUHK Program for the Gifted and Talented

Jan 2013-Dec 2014

Consultant, Oxford Pre-school English Coursebook, OUP

Reviewed a manuscript for Educational Research Journal

Dec 13: Visited Gwei Gang Primary School, Foshan, Guangdong

and observed a P2 lesson.

Taught 2 CALL lessons at Fung Kai Secondary School

Taught a S1 reading comprehension lesson, and a S1 grammar lesson, at Fung Kai Secondary School. Both were Computer Assisted Language Learning lessons that made extensive use of the one-netbook-to-every-student classroom setting.

Dec 7: Visit to Hong Kong EdCity

... with a delegation of primary English teachers from Foshan, China.

Dec 6: Visit to Tin Shui Wai Methodist Primary School

...with a delegation of primary English teachers from Foshan, China.

Remote Lesson Observation under a two-site Professional Development project

Participated in a remote lesson observation and conducted the post-lesson discussion, under a two-site professional development project involving Fung Kai Creative Primary School, HK, and Nan Gaang Primary School, Foshan.