Catering for learning diversity: Does the general education provided by the new senior secondary school curriculum be able to do this?

Catering for learning diversity: Does the general education provided by the new senior secondary school curriculum be able to do this?

• Chan, Kin Sang Jacqueline The Hong Kong Institute of Education

• D Curriculum
  • DE Secondary Education Programmes
• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GJ Interdisciplinary
    • GJA Teaching Objectives, Curriculum & Evaluation

Learning Diversity Curriculum Design Teaching and Learning Assessment

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

Although Hong Kong students perform quite well in international performance measurements such as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), there are issues concerning the significant differences between the newly immigrated students and the local students, the gender differences and variation of performances among schools and within schools. Indeed, learning diversity has become an important issue as students come from many different families and with various backgrounds. In order to provide students with equal opportunities to learn, the new senior secondary school curriculum has set out a new direction for catering to students’ learning diversity. The major design of the new curriculum is to offer more electives and enhance student choices. It is also intended to be implemented with flexible teaching strategies and a school-based curriculum and assessment. How this can be done has posed a big challenge to schools and teachers. This paper aims to explore how the newly implemented curriculum can cater to learning diversity in greater depth.

Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, & Nations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

• English

Conference Papers

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/7876d3e5

2016-02-11