Contents

Learning Activities

Assessments

School mission

Government

Instruction

Financial Consideratio

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Teachers Work load

Students Abilities

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180+ school days About 36 weeks out of 52 weeks of a school

year Cycle based / Week days based Time for a lesson (e.g. 45min) How many lessons a day? (7 lessons per

day)

Languages◦ Chinese (including Putonghua)◦ English

Mathematics Liberal Studies Other subjects (X)

◦ Physics, Chemistry, Econ., Eng. Lit, etc. Extra Curriculum activities

Languages (40%)◦ Chinese (including Putonghua) (20%)◦ English (20%)

Mathematics (15%) Liberal Studies (15%) Other subjects (X) (20%)

◦ Physics, Chemistry, Econ., Eng. Lit, etc. Extra Curriculum activities (10%)

180 school days x 15% LS contents 27 school days to teach LS We have 6 hours a day That means 27 x 6 = 162 hours of LS

contents

Contact hours◦ Face-to-face lectures/tutorials

Notional Learning hours◦ The amount of time an average learner is

expected to take to complete all the learning and achieve the learning outcomes.

◦ All learning relevant to the learning outcomes should be considered in estimating the notional learning time.

Notional Learning hours = Contact hours + Self study hours + others

Is it Unlimited? What is the maximum?

◦ Deducting the time for rest and other activities, we suppose that we will have 44 hours a week

◦ Suppose that we study 42 weeks out of 52 weeks◦ i.e. 42 x 44 = 1848 hours of max. notional

learning hours

We have, 1848 max. notional learning hours 15% of Liberal Studies Content 1848 x 15% ≈ 277 hours of notional

learning hours for LS contents 162 contact hours of LS contents a 1:1.7 ratio for contact hours to notional

learning hours

Period of time (e.g. 1 academic year) What kind of abilities that you want your

students to learn? Mission and direction of school which

related to the discipline. How many domains? Consistence between domains, chapters,

topics. Adjust the time of study of each topics.

1. Brain Storming for choosing some sets of content of your Liberal Studies curriculum.

2. Categorize the contents in different groups.

3. Think about the coherence of those groups of contents. (Learning Sequence)

4. Eliminate some contents depend on the period of time of study.

5. Any restriction on the learning activities for the teaching team.