Addressing Teachers’ Professional Development Needs – English Language Education Saturday Seminar Series
- 2018
- News Updates
- Department of English Language Education
It has been a tradition for the Department of English Language Education (ELE) to present a series of Saturday seminars for English teachers and subject teachers of both primary and secondary schools. This year the seminar series were held in both the spring and fall of 2017.
The seminars aimed to enhance teachers’ professional development in areas relating to language learning, strategies of using English as a medium of instruction, curriculum development beyond NSS and strategies to cater for learner diversity. The seminars also provided a channel for the department to introduce different Certificate in Professional Development Programmes (PDPs) to teachers.
These 3-hour seminars held on Saturday mornings at EdUHK, Tai Po Campus and were well attended attracting more than 500 applicant teachers. We were pleased to read post-seminar comments that were very positive.
Fall 2017
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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30 September 2017
| ‘They don’t know how to listen!’ Strategies for teaching Listening comprehension | Dr John Trent |
7 October 2017 | Motivating your students to talk: exploring a content-based approach to teaching speaking | Ms Jessica Lee |
14 October 2017 | Revisiting the teaching of reading | Dr Ruth Wong |
21 October 2017 | A genre approach to writing | Dr Stella Kong |
4 November 2017 | Teaching grammar in context: principles and practice | Dr Tim Taylor |
Spring 2017
Date | Topic | Speaker |
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29 April 2017 | Seminar 1 - Basic principles of teaching grammar in context | Dr Peter Storey
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6 May 2017 | Seminar 2 - Teaching grammar through text-based strategies | |
13 May 2017 | Seminar 3 - Teaching grammar through language arts strategies | |
20 May 2017 | Seminar 4 - Teaching grammar through making meaning | |
27 May 2017 | Seminar 5 - Teaching grammar through participation |
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