Lecturer attachment scheme: Professional development and beyond

Lecturer attachment scheme: Professional development and beyond

• Mok, Angela Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Chow, Alice Hong Kong Institute of Education

1999

Joint Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and New Zealand Association for Research in Education (1999: Melbourne)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FH Classroom Communication

Professional Development Recurrent Education Teacher Education Teacher Effectiveness Videotape Recordings Foreign Countries Interviews Classroom Research Field Research Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute of Education Lecturer Attachment Scheme (LAS)

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Unknown or Unspecified

The Lecturer Attachment Scheme (LAS) advocated in the Hong Kong Institute of Education aims at creating opportunities for the teaching staff to update their school teaching experience, participate in a real school setting and experience the work life of local teachers. Through the school attachment, the teacher educator will not only update their teaching experience and possibly build collaborative relationship with schools in staff development and research activities.
This paper describes two lecturers from the English Department of the Hong Kong Institute of Education who joined the Institute's attachment Scheme for their own professional benefit and development. During the two-week attachment period, the lecturers took over English teaching duties from two regular teachers and worked closely with the teachers. All their lessons were observed by the regular teachers and were video-taped. The lecturers tried different teaching approaches such as the incorporation of big books for the teaching of reading and materials adaptation. The lecturers brought with them what they perceive as 'good' language teaching in the classroom and attempted to verify whether theory and practice can be coherently integrated.
Field notes and journal data recording the lecturers' reflection and experience on the scheme and interview data probing into the teachers' evaluation of the LAS will be presented. It is affirmed that such attachment scheme can enhance professional development both for the teacher educators and for the teachers. It also enabled an avenue for follow-up school-based collaborative projects.
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Paper presented at the Joint Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education and New Zealand Association for Research in Education, 29 November - 2 December 1999, Melbourne. Conference theme: Global issues and local effects: The challenge for educational research.

• English

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2010-11-25