¡@

Training Programmes for Primary School Curriculum Leaders 2013/14
Commissioned by the Education Bureau


Department of Curriculum and Instruction

¡@
About PSCL News Teaching Team Class Schedule Downloads Contact Us

Teaching Team (B1)

Participants will be meeting tutors during the class time. There are seven tutors involved in the B1 programme; they provide expertise support to your study in the seven modules. The tutors are experienced teacher educators and trainers in curriculum leadership programs. They act as a support person and first point of contact during the programme of study. A list of tutor's information is attached below:


Dr. TSUI Kwok Tung is currently Associate Professor of the Department of Currculum and Instruction at HKIEd. He has extensive experience in the education field as teacher in secondary school and special education school, lecturer at the Northcote College of Education and the Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. TSUI specializes in teacher effectiveness, curriculum and leadership studies. He was appointed by the World Bank to be the International Consultant of the School Education Quality Assurance Program in Vietnam in 2008-09 and a nation-wide World Bank primary teacher project in Vietnam in 2000, served as the Vice-chairman (1993 to 1995) of the Advisory Committee on Integration of Subjects, CDI, and external examiner for the University of Bristol on EdD programme. Apart from these, he has rich experience in training school leaders and inspectors locally and in the region. He was the program leader of the Cambodian Secondary Inspector Training Programs sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth of Cambodia and CAMSET II, the Training Program for Malaysia Primary School Teachers of United Chinese School Teachers' Association of Malaysia, Training Programmes for Primary School Master/Mistress (Curriculum Development) Post Holders commissioned by the EDB for many years, and tutor of newly appointed/ aspiring school principals training programme. Dr. TSUI has published a number of academic articles in international academic journals including the Educational Research and Evaluation Journal (The Netherlands), the Journal of Educational Research (USA), the International Journal of Educational Management (UK), and the Asia-Pacific Education Researcher (Philippines). He is co-editor of three edited books on teacher education and development published by the Kluwer Academic Publishers and HKIEd, one edited book on curriculum reforms published by Shanghai Science and Technology Education and HKIEd. Dr. TSUI was the co-leader of a school review team to conduct a Comprehensive Review for a Direct Subsidy Scheme School in May 2006 and member of a school review team to conduct a Comprehensive Review for a Direct Subsidy Scheme School in March 2008. His name has been placed on the list of Independent School Reviewers (ISR) maintained by the EDB since 2006.
¡@

Dr. CHAN Kam Wing is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of the Centre for Small Class Teaching at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has a wide range of teaching experience in different education sectors, including primary, secondary, tertiary and adult education. He has served as consultant for local primary schools in projects like cooperative learning and small class teaching. In the past years, he made contribution to the training of school curriculum leaders in the Primary School Masters/Mistresses (Curriculum Development) Courses. He is the programme leader/coordinator of the various Small Class Teaching courses commissioned by the Education Bureau. Dr. CHAN has authored a number of publications such as research papers, books and book chapters with a focus on curriculum and pedagogy.
¡@

Dr. LAM Bick Har is currently an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She obtained her degrees of bachelor in education and master in education from the University of East Anglia in the UK, and her PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. LAM has taken up leadership of a number of pedagogical-based and teacher studies in such areas as ¡§formative assessment¡¨ and "innovative pedagogies¡¨, and a series of outcome-based education studies by the Teaching Development Grant. She is currently involved in a local study on the professional practice of expert and non-expert teachers funded by the Internal Research Fund, and an international project on adolescent¡¦s art between cultural borders supported by the International Society of Education through Art. Dr. LAM¡¦s most recent books include Learning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom (with S. N. Phillipson, 2011), Young people¡¦s visions of the world (co-edited with T. T. Eca and R. Kroupp, 2010), Curriculum Integration: An Institute¡Vschool Partnership Approach (2009). She was a syllabus writer and course developer for a number of undergraduate teacher education courses for the Open University of Hong Kong, and has been a programme leader and developer for Hong Kong government-commissioned teacher professional development courses. She has also developed the Active Classroom (A Class) as a study platform (http://www.ied.edu.hk/aclass/) for teachers to enhance professional teacher knowledge. Dr. LAM has been recipient of the Institute¡¦s Faculty of Education Studies Excellence in Teaching Award 2009/10 (http://www2.ied.edu.hk/ci//news_20100908.htm) and the President¡¦s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching 2011/12 (http://www2.ied.edu.hk/ci/news_20120507.htm). She was nominated by the Institute for the Inaugural University Grants Committee Teaching Award in 2011 (http://www2.ied.edu.hk/ci/news_20111013.htm) and was awarded a certificate by the UGC for being one of the six finalists for the UGC Teaching Award 2011.
¡@

Dr. LEUNG Wai Lun, Anthony is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research and publication interests include curriculum reform and change, curriculum organization and integration, curriculum implementation, project learning, liberal studies, and small class teaching. Dr. LEUNG was on the list of Independent School Reviewers (ISR) maintained by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2009. Dr. LEUNG was appointed as an external examiner of Doctor of Education thesis by the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Australia in 2010. Dr. LEUNG is currently appointed as an External Course Examiner by the Open University of Hong Kong.
¡@

Dr. NG Cheuk Wing, Margaret is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. She received her Doctor of Education degree from the University of Bristol, U.K., following the completion of Master of Education (with Honours) from the University of Western Australia, and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from the University of Alberta, Canada. She obtained her teaching qualification from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, she worked as the Assistant Project Manager (Curriculum Development) of the ¡¥Centre for Research in Interdisciplinary and Liberal Studies¡¦ at the Institute as well as a Part-time Lecturer of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education in higher education of Child Care and Education. Dr. NG is actively involved in school-based management that she has been a school manager of six primary and secondary schools and a member of the Primary, Secondary and Continuing Education Committee of the Baptist Convention of Hong Kong since July 2006.
¡@

Dr. NGAN Ming Yan was a primary school teacher for years before going into teacher education at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. His research interests include assessment and evaluation, school and teacher change, school culture, curriculum development, extra-curriculum activities, and mathematics education. In the past few years, he has been extensively involved in Hong Kong and Macau government commissioned research studies into schooling and curriculum development. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 2007, National Normal University of Taiwan in 2004, and Visiting Research Fellow at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. He has served on government committees for local primary school reviews and chaired the Hong Kong primary mathematics curriculum committee. He contributes to improving the quality of Hong Kong schools as a secondary school supervisor, school management board member, and as a senior scouter in Hong Kong Scouting Movement.
¡@

Dr. YANG Min is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Prior to joining the Institute, Dr. YANG worked with The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she gained experiences of supervising doctoral students, providing pedagogic consultation for academics, and conducting institution-wide investigations. Dr. YANG has been researching into effective teaching, assessment and curriculum design for Chinese learners. Dr. YANG¡¦s research outcomes have been published in reputable international journals on educational and social sciences research.
¡@

Dr. YEUNG Sze Yin, Shirley is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Hong Kong Institute of Education. Having served as a teacher educator for years, she has accumulated valuable experience in teacher training and earns much support from her students and many of her colleagues. She was one of the pioneers of program development and curriculum planning for HKIEd. She initiated and put into practice the ideal of reflective thinking as well as action research in teacher education curriculum. She is currently teaching courses on curriculum studies, assessment theory and principles on instructional design for pre-service and in-service teacher programs. Besides teaching, she contributes her best to educational research and community service. Curriculum change and implementation, higher-order thinking in school curriculum, curriculum evaluation, curriculum integration and teachers¡¦ thinking are her research areas. She keeps working closely with schools as collaborative partners by taking active roles as curriculum consultants, external curriculum reviewers and guest speakers for teacher development. Dr. YEUNG constantly presents papers in international conferences and publishes articles on local and international journals. She is the editor and author of several books published recently. She is also invited to serve as reviewer of articles for local and international journals. Lately, she has completed another curriculum evaluation project commissioned by a elite primary school in Hong Kong. She has taught training course for several cohorts of PSMCDs previously.

¡@

¡@
¡@ ¡@

© 2013 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education. All rights reserved.

¡@