School-University Partnerships Symposium 2018 Teacher Learning and Teaching in the Age of STREAM – PARTNERSHIP FOR ALL 促進院校夥伴研討會： C 百年樹人 ‒ 教學協作新方向 M Y CM MY CY CMY K 2018年適逢田家炳博士百歲華誕，田家炳基金會支持香 港大學教育學院舉辦「百年樹人‒教學協作新方向」學術 研討會，傳承田博士重視教育和關心教師的心志。 Foreword Foreword It is my great pleasure to welcome friends and colleagues from our It gives me great pleasure to extend our warmest congratulations on behalf of the Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and Principals (COTAP) to the Professional Partnership Schools and from the wider educational Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong for another year of achievement community to this year’s School-University Partnerships in helping our student-teachers integrate theory and practice, and for the synergy Symposium. As part of the Centenary Celebration of Teacher generated during your long-time partnership with partnership schools. Education at The University of Hong Kong, our symposium this COTAP has always believed that the on-site guidance and support from experienced year aims to celebrate and share the success of different levels of teacher mentors afforded by school experience and regular placement is of immense value to novice teachers in meeting the challenges when they first partnership with local schools around teacher education, research, join the profession. We are especially glad to see the enormous importance of and professional support. This important event also provides an teaching practice being underlined, both in the revamped Postgraduate Diploma invaluable opportunity for us to envision new partnerships for the in Education programmes and through a variety of professional events such as future together with our stakeholders in the community. this School-University Partnerships Symposium. This meaningful annual event has been a precious occasion over the past decade for international and local educators The title of our symposium this year is “Teacher Learning and Teaching in the Age of STREAM to share and forge a closer partnership. We look forward to more fruitful professional exchanges today through the speeches and workshops that will certainly contribute to the building of a vibrant teaching profession of excellence and - PARTNERSHIP FOR ALL.” STREAM is an acronym derived from STEM which represents the bring a positive impact on students’ whole-person development. disciplines of Science, Technology, Reading & wRiting, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. We wish the Symposium all the success for many more years to come. This clearly signals that the focus of our symposium is not simply on the content of the sciences and technology, but on integrated teaching and curriculum, student-centeredness Dr Carrie Willis in instruction and curriculum design, and the flexible, interdisciplinary and creative mindsets Chairperson Committee on Professional Development of Teachers and Principals that STEM and STREAM can foster, especially among teachers. Through the symposium— one of the important ways in which we connect with our partnership schools and the wider education community—we intend to bring new insights and inspire learning and teaching The title of this year’s symposium is “Teacher Learning and Teaching in the Age of among teachers. STREAM - PARTNERSHIP FOR ALL.” The symposium is an important event in our University and school collaboration. This year is also the University’s centennial School-University Partnerships are an indispensable component of our Faculty’s engagement celebration of teacher education, marking a milestone in the University’s community with the local community. I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks commitment in teacher education. to mentor-teachers and practicum schools for their strong support, as well as to participating “School-University Partnerships” is an essential component of our Faculty’s engagement with the local community. Collaboration with the practicum schools schools for their openness to our projects and research. The work of our student-teachers paves the way for the successful development of our student-teachers into in their practicum marks the first milestone in their career. Training and support provided professional teachers, as well as supports our projects and research in developing by practicum schools pave the way for the successful development of our student-teachers better theories and practices and in education. I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the great support of mentor-teachers and practicum schools as well as into professional teachers; similarly, schools that support our projects and research help our participating schools for joining our projects and research. I am also thankful for faculty members to develop new theories that can enrich practice and in turn contribute back the hard work of the Faculty School-University Partnerships Office which has earned to schools and the field of education. the trust and collaboration of many schools and benefits the student-teachers in their early experience of their teaching profession. Looking ahead, together with the School-University Partnerships Office, Mr Alain Lo (Director, School- Thank you again for being with us today. Let us join hands and hearts as we re-commit University Partnerships), Dr Thomas Chiu (Deputy Director, School-University Partnerships) and myself (Associate to strengthening our partnerships so that the schools and their pupils, student-teachers Dean, Local Engagement), we will continue to develop so that the schools, student-teachers and the University will all benefit from the partnerships and exchange of knowledge. and the University will all benefit from this collaboration and exchange of knowledge. Our partnerships with schools have been crucial to the success of our teacher education Dr Ida Ah Chee Mok endeavours during our first 100 years. We look forward to imagining and creating many new Associate Dean (Local Engagement) levels of partnership with colleagues in the education community as we move into the next Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong century of teacher education at HKU. As Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching I am delighted to welcome you all Prof A. Lin Goodwin here today to celebrate our successes in partnership with local schools and teachers Dean and to open a new chapter in professional partnership and collaboration which Faculty of Education we hope will bring enormous reciprocal benefits. We have so much in common and it’s vital that we work together as closely as possible in order to provide the The University of Hong Kong best environment possible for the nurturing of our school students as well as our teachers of tomorrow. Neither schools nor universities can go it alone in achieving this aim and I look forward to working with you all as we move forward from today. Dr Gary Harfitt Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong 1 2 Foreword School-University Partnerships Symposium Synopsis Welcome to our School-University Partnerships Symposium 2018. This annual event has been developed as an important platform to stimulate professional dialogues and experience exchange among our colleagues from the Faculty as well as key Keynote 1 stakeholders in the education community at large. The theme of the symposium this year is “Teacher Learning and Teaching in the Age of STREAM – PARTNERSHIP FOR ALL.” With the foundation laid in the previous years of the School-University Partnerships, we hope to seek your continuous support and collaboration for our journey of nurturing the next generation of teachers and building an even stronger Speaker: partnership in the years to come. Mr Lo Man Fong Alain Professor John Williams, Director, Graduate Research in the School-University Partnerships Director School of Education, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia Faculty of Education The University of Hong Kong Title: STEM Pedagogy - The Application of Good Practice Schools and The University of Hong Kong are devoted to the pursuit of learning and intellectual development, and we play a major role in socializing and preparing our Hong Kong youth for future roles in society. I am so pleased to see our partnerships as a two-way process driven by a social responsibility, involving interaction and Abstract listening, with the goal of generating mutual development and improvement. I would like to see more schools coming to our university to share their good The STEM space is very complex – the term has different meanings in different contexts, the practices, and to see more student teachers and Faculty colleagues going out to STEM subjects do not have equivalence, projects may be after school or in the curriculum, schools to exchange knowledge next year. See you in 2018-19. assessment is problematic, the goals of STEM are multiple, and so on. This complexity makes Dr Thomas Chiu it difficult to generalize about the nature of STEM and of STEM teaching. School-University Partnerships Deputy Director Faculty of Education However, there is a body of research about good teaching practice, which results in effective The University of Hong Kong learning, and can be applied to the range of STEM activities. This presentation will select some principles of teaching and learning, derived from research, and elaborate on the implications of their application to STEM teaching. “Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.” Education today is not just about the accumulation of knowledge but lighting a fire which is “a burning desire to never stop learning”. Our world is changing and hence, education About the Speaker and teachers are of crucial importance in preparing young people to embrace challenges in the future. Therefore, teachers nowadays must not only be bound Professor John Williams is a Professor of Education and the Director of Graduate Research by the norms and traditions of the past; instead, they should be open to new ideas preparing their students for what they are likely to face in the years and decades in the School of Education at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where he teaches to come.