By Ross Ng (ELED 2018 Graduate) While planning a lesson, a teacher usually asks two questions: (1) What do students lack at the moment? (2) What do students need or want to learn? Answers to the first question can be obtained rather easily through a comprehensive assessment of students’ current knowledge or skill level given …
By Kristy Kung (ELED Year 4 student 2020-21) and Kailey Yu (ELED Year 2 student 2020-21) The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the education system all over the world. Due to the closures of schools, there are huge changes in the learning environment, resources and the mode of delivery. Teachers and students have been adapting …
By Viola Chan and Vincy Ng (ELED Year 1 students 2020-21) You may be in the middle of the school year now, busy with schoolwork, but don’t forget to take some time to relax. Here’s a TV show recommendation! It is called “Money Heist”, a Spanish TV series streaming on Netflix. Inspired by some real-life …
By Rainbow Chan (ELED Year 4 student 2020-21) Undoubtedly, people around the world are living a hectic life nowadays. However, under the COVID-19 pandemic, people have started to slow their living pace down and therefore starting to realize the significance of healthy lifestyles. The real question is: What should we do to live more healthily? …
By Elizabeth Lui (ELED Year 3 student 2020-21) Ever noticed the hashtag #MoveforMentalHealth popping up on your social media feed? The hashtag is a part of the Move for Mental Health challenge launched in 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with United for Global Mental Health and the World Federation for Mental …
Proverb is a common type of idiom intended to pass on ancient wisdoms, and is usually expressed as warnings. Out of all the “don’t” proverbs, “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” seems the easiest to agree with. This bizarre slang has no doubt provoked our curiosity – how people came up with that? …
By Jessica Lee (ELED Year 1 student 2020-21) What’s worse than teaching in a noisy classroom where naughty students are jumping around? Facing a blank screen and talking to no one in particular, perhaps. Or, calling out names but everyone happens to have “gone to the bathroom”. Under the “New Normal”, most classes have shifted …
By Oscar Ho (ELED Year 3 student 2020-21) It’s been a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2020 has undoubtedly been rough for most of us. As we’re still striving in the battle against the virus, there were a series of unfortunate events we felt disheartened by upon hearing. We witnessed the fall of popular …
By Jasmine Wong and Minnie Tso (ELED Year 2 students 2020-21) Five Feet Apart (2019 version), cast by Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson, is a romantic movie about friendships and romantic relationships between Cystic Fibrosis patients. Stellar, Will and Poe need to go to different therapies and take various kinds of medicines just to …
By Ross Ng (ELED Graduate) In accordance with the Teacher Competencies Framework put forward by the former Advisory Committee on Teacher Education and Qualifications (ACTEQ) in 2003, all teachers in Hong Kong are expected to be equipped with extensive curriculum and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Afterwards, with the advent of incorporation of information technology into …