2010-2011

2. Weaknesses
a. Teachers need to get familiar with the new senior secondary Mathematics
curriculum and assessment method
III. OBJECTIVES
1. To promote professional development of teachers
2. To strengthen the teaching of remedial classes or weaker students
3. To strengthen the teaching of elite classes or better-able students
4. To introduce Christian Value Education into the teaching of Mathematics
5. To arouse students’ learning motivation in Mathematics
6. To cultivate a positive learning atmosphere for students so that they become active
learners
7. To help students learn and study Mathematics
8. To increase students’ power of expression and communication ability in an EMI
environment (promote EMI teaching)
9. To foster students’ reading habit
10. To promote students’ exposure to more daily use of Mathematics
11. To enable students to be exposed to more extra-curricular Mathematics knowledge
12. To maintain students’ good performance in examination or further improve it
13. To develop students’ power of higher order thinking (like critical thinking,
communication, inquiry, conceptualizing, reasoning, and problem solving)
14. To increase students’ power of independent thinking
15. To promote the use of IT in teaching
16. To help students get external recognition for their Mathematics ability
17. To promote healthy living
18. To encourage students to use IT in learning Mathematics
19. To promote students’self-learning skills
20. To prepare teachers for New Senior Secondary Curriculum and assessment method
IV. OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES
TASK OBJECTIVES TIME SCALE
07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12
Mentor system and professional development
1 Appoint suitable mentor(s) on 1
voluntary basis to take care of new
Mathematics teachers
2 Conduct collaborative teaching 1
with discussion of student
weaknesses, teaching plan and
strategy, preparation of teaching
material, mutual lesson
observation and follow up
discussion
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