Collaborating Schools:

Tin Shui Wai Catholic Primary School

Yaumati Catholic Primary School (Hoi Wang Road)

Pui Tak Canossian Primary School

Pak Tin Catholic Primary School

Overview

Our aims of promoting eLearning

The curriculum design

Implementation of the curriculum in class

Aims of Promoting E-learning

To raise learners’ motivation

To cultivate learner autonomy

The Curriculum Design

Student-centered

Strategies adopted :

Concept-based Curriculum and Instruction

Task-based Language Teaching

Cooperative Learning

Interdisciplinary Moral & Civic Education

Religious Studies

* Students are guided to understand concepts, generalizations and principles.

* Constructivism and inquiry teaching are valued in concept-based teaching and learning.

It involves active construction of

knowledge through processes of inquiry,

thinking, problem-solving, creating,

performing and communicating.

(Clark, Scarino and Brownell ,1994, p.1)

The unit components:

1. A unit title

2. Tasks

3. Concepts

4. Generalizations (enduring, essential

understandings)

5. Language focus and key skills

6. Critical content

7. Guiding and essential questions

(factual, conceptual and provocative questions)

8. Assessment (peer and self assessment)

Year Primary 2 (Semester A) Module 1 2 3 4

Title Following Rules

Eat Healthily Taking Our Roles

Language Arts

Enduring understan

dings

Following rules can help make a safe place for everyone to live in.

Eat healthily! Only can healthy people look after themselves and the others.

Everyone has their own roles. Take your roles and serve one another.

Respect different cultures and live happily together.

Tasks To write about a shopping mall.

To write a notice telling others to follow rules.

To rewrite the lyrics of a song.

To rewrite a play script about shopping in the supermarket.

To write riddles about jobs.

To write about your family members.

To perform a drama talking about peoples celebrating Chinese New Year.

Chapter A Shopping Mall

Rules Food In the Supermarket

Jobs Going to Work

Respecting different cultures

Learning objectives

1. To enable students to learn some factual knowledge. Learn subject knowledge in life experience. 2. To guide students to get the main ideas (Enduring understandings) of the modules. Construct cognitive models and foster positive values. 3. To enable students to learn some skills. Develop communication, collaboration and higher-order thinking skills.

Year Primary 2 (Semester B) Module 5 6 7 8

Title Showing Our Love Protecting Yourself Protecting Our Environment Language Arts

Enduring understan

dings

Festivals are the days to show our love to others.

Wear the right clothes to protect yourself.

Protect our environment! Be the manager of the Earth.

A happy man always feels satisfied.

Tasks To write a chant about different festivals.

To write a letter telling your friend how you celebrate a festival.

To write a poem about seasons and the weather.

To introduce your newly designed clothes on a catwalk.

To write about a boy’s daily life (A picture description).

Design a poster asking people to save the Earth.

To perform a drama.

Chapter Festivals Activities Seasons and the Weather

Things We Wear

Bad Habits Protecting Our

Environment

Be a Happy Man

Learning objectives

1. To enable students to learn some factual knowledge. Learn subject knowledge in life experience. 2. To guide students to get the main ideas (Enduring understandings) of the modules. Construct cognitive models and foster positive values. 3.To enable students to learn some skills. Develop communication, collaboration and higher-order thinking skills.

*Reading lessons

*Speaking lessons

*Writing lessons

*Listening lessons

A grammar lesson

Focusing on meaning & forms

In context

Discovery Approach

Q & A

Thank you!