Project title

Science Teacher Update Program: Applications in Engineering Surveying (September 2005 – August 2007)
supported by Quality Education Fund project, Hong Kong Special Administration Region

Abstract:

The project aims at enhancing the quality and effectiveness of learning and teaching in science subjects for secondary schools by providing teacher update training workshops and outdoor fieldwork. This project intends to establish a better collaboration in science education between the upper secondary school and university levels in Hong Kong. Hence, construction programmes at the universities can be promoted in the upper secondary schools.

Through the training workshops and fieldwork at the Engineering Surveying Laboratory at the City University of Hong Kong, the following objectives will be achieved: (1) to enrich teachers’ technology applications in science/physics/mathematical subjects (F.4–F.7); (2) to encourage teachers to diversify and specialize in their teaching areas; (3) to update teachers’ knowledge of ‘existing subjects proposed to be phased out’ in order to help them adapt to the new needs of science subjects; (4) to provide an environment for teachers from different schools to learn, work and share their experiences together with regard to science/physics/mathematical subjects and specific topics; and (6) to allow teachers to use the Engineering Surveying Laboratory and other equipment as a type of ‘classroom outside school walls’ to broaden students’ exposure to science/physics/mathematical subjects.


Team members:

Paper:

Tam V.W.Y., Fung I.W.H., Leung M.Y. (2006) Changing world of university education for quantity surveyors: a HK study. Surveyor Times, 15(12), 41-49.