Chen Guowei Primary School, Pok Oi Hospital, Tseung Kwan O Subsidized School, has reformed the school-based English curriculum from this school year, referring to the international curriculum IBPYP (IB Primary Years Programme) teaching strategy. From December this year, it is the first to introduce a new school-based international PIE curriculum in the primary two English curriculum. (Primary International Education Curriculum). In each semester, the original two book units are selected, and the two learning units of the IB international curriculum model "Sharing the Planet" and "Who we are" are added. Compare the two teaching models. The effectiveness of students becoming independent learners.
In order to improve the teaching level, the school has hired an additional 2 foreign teachers, the total number has increased to 3, they go to classes and conduct English activities with students daily, in order to enhance students' confidence and ability in listening and speaking of English.
Principal: The traditional knowledge transfer model makes students accustomed to act according to instructions
The school stated that the new school-based international PIE curriculum was newly introduced, including Voice (listening), Choice (empowerment) and Ownership Strategies (ownership strategies), and referred to the ten learner training goals (Learner Profile) advocated by the IB curriculum. ) To optimize the current English curriculum to enhance students' ability and attitude of autonomous learning, and to equip them to become autonomous learners to meet the ever-changing future.
Principal Wei Shuzhen said that the traditional teaching model focuses on knowledge transfer. Most students follow instructions or instructions to learn, and most of the trained children are also accustomed to acting according to instructions. The learning process is relatively passive. This has many shortcomings for cultivating students to become autonomous learners. , Or it is easier for students to be eliminated in the future.
PIE courses encourage students to ask more questions, think more and explore themselves
Principal Wei continued that the IB course is designed to equip students to become global citizens (Global Citizen), and set ten learner training goals, advocating to train students to be active inquiring, good at communication, and open-minded people, and With the perseverance and spirit to take risks and balance the mind and body, students in the 21st century need to learn to actively seek knowledge, explore and solve problems. After more consideration, the school decides to educate children on how to use knowledge to think, research and create in the future. Adding IBPYP elements and the teaching strategies of listening, empowering, and ownership strategies are aimed at hoping that students can use English to carry out daily inquiry activities, truly integrate English into their lives, and train students to become masters of learning.
The school-based international PIE curriculum encourages students to ask more questions, think more and explore themselves. The purpose is to enable students to learn to solve problems in a rapidly changing society, and to build the ability to discover new things and new knowledge, rather than just instilling in students one-way by the teacher knowledge.
In the learning process, let students make choices from reflection, and take learning actions based on individual/group choices, and then reflect on the results/effectiveness of learning, so that students are responsible for their own learning and use their knowledge To solve different problems, and cultivate students' reflection and continuous improvement attitudes in the process of learning, enhance students' sense of ownership of learning, change learning from passive to active, and train students to become independent learners.
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