The Schools Around the World project: an attempt to enhance the quality of science teaching

Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 1, Issue 2, Article 3 (Dec., 2000)
CHENG May Hung, May; SO Wing Mui, Winnie; CHEUNG Wing Ming, Francis
The Schools Around the World project: an attempt to enhance the quality of science teaching

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Students' works as a basis for teachers' professional discussion
The teachers participating in the project may choose one of the science topics that they teach in the current academic year and collect students’ work. They are actively involved in providing comments about the collected work and exchanging ideas with other teachers choosing the same topic about standards of achievement. Seminars for local teachers are to be organised initially to facilitate the exchange of ideas. Student work, comments as well as expectations of teachers and associate teachers are digitized and mounted on the web. The innovative approach of utilizing web-based technology in the project enables teachers in different geographical locations to have direct access to one another's work at any point of time. For teachers who have limited or without access to the Internet, they can still view the student work and other related information by using the CD ROMs produced by the project team. The CD ROMs basically contain all the information on the web at a given point of time. The student work samples, which are exclusively for participating teachers, may provide a basis for teachers around the world to share their teaching ideas, thoughts about assessment, expectations on student performance, and even feelings about science teaching.