From September 2009 onwards, a new business curriculum which focuses on three key business disciplines, namely management, accounting and finance, has been implemented in Hong Kong senior secondary schools. A new assessment guide has been also proposed in light of the new curriculum. Such business curriculum and assessment reform move in the direction of preparing pupils to be more adaptive to the fast-changing business society; an innovative school-based pedagogical design will definitely be needed. This paper examines and analyzes the nature of the existing Hong Kong business curriculum and assessment reform from a competence-based perspective, discusses the critical issues in the areas of curriculum design, assessment practices, teaching approaches and teacher development, and suggests innovations in these areas for enhancing pupil competence development in the context of Hong Kong senior secondary education.
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背景：香港特別行政區政府在2002-2003 學年起，分階段在香港小學設置課程統籌主任一職。在設置職位時，亦很重視任職人士的專業發展，先後以短期課程、工作坊、學校交流日和發展日協助其發展。
討論焦點：本文從四個研究的成果，說明課程統籌主任的培訓課程仍有其不足，並加以分析和建議。
論點：特區政府深明課程改革的成敗與教師專業發展有密切的關係。然而，以小學課程統籌主任的專業發展來看，其模式和內容仍與現實需要有些距離。提供清晰的改革方向、在現實情景中提供專業發展機會、以夥伴合作模式和照顧施行者的感受，都必須加以留意。
總結：專業發展課程設計若未能照顧前線教師的需要，則不單無助教師改革課程，反而只會增加教師的負擔。
Background: Since the academic year 2002-2003, HKSAR government established the curriculum masters (PSM(CD)) post in primary schools through three stages. By organizing short courses, workshops, school sharing and development day, professional development was provided to these masters showing the concern of government towards this establishment.
Focal point: From four pieces of empirical reseach, this paper showed the deficit of the professional development program and reflected on responses of participants.
Discussion: Though HKSAR government emphasized the importance of professional development of these curriculum masters, the content and mode of professional development program are falling short from teachers' needs. It is suggested that providing clear reform directions, supporting professional development in real situation, utilizing collaborative mode and concerning teachers' feeling should be awared when design a program.
Conclusion: If professional development program is not designed for the needs of participants, it will not help teachers in curriculum reform but increase their burden.
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本文檢視香港特區一九九七年後首十年香港的課程改革發展歷史，並從教育質素、學習機會、學習多元，以及課程是否變為中央化等多元視角，加以討論。分析結果首先肯定香港的教育質素有提升。再揭示間接或直接提供學生學習的平等機會是受到質疑，不過，香港的教育成效均等情況滿意。第三項的多元化課程發展方面，核心課程雖有收窄，但在選修科目和應用學習，以致學習的形式和方法，課程改革確是意圖給學生提供多樣的學習機遇。第四項的課程改革中央化問題上，香港是出現中央化－校本化的互動。最後，本文指出推動或實踐課改工作，要小心謹慎，要考慮承受能力。
The paper reports the curriculum reform developmental history in the Hong Kong Special Administration Region since 1997 until 2007 by the multi-perspectives of education quality, learning opportunity, learning diversity, and the centralization of curriculum reform. The paper reveals firstly affirmed Hong Kong's education quality has been improved. Secondly, it reveals a question of fair learning opportunity and the learning equality is satisfied in Hong Kong. Thirdly, for the curriculum development, it reveals the numbers of core curriculum have been limited, however, there are choices of elective subjects and apply learning as well as learning approaches and methods been introduced by the reform. The curriculum reform has the good intention in providing learning diversity and opportunity for our students.
Finally, the paper points out the curriculum reform initiation and implementation must be careful and consider theaffordability of the educators to change.
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The implementation of the New Senior Secondary system from 2009 onwards has brought along changes in content and new demands in all subjects. This paper examines the nature of the new curriculum for Geography and the challenges which teachers and students have to face. These challenges are discussed as possibilities for broadening students' horizons and improving the quality of learning outcomes. The conclusion is that both teachers and students should make appropriate changes to their teaching and learning processes as the Education Bureau and Examinations and Assessment Authority should fine-tune their decisions from time to time to improve the curriculum and assessment process.
2009年開始推行的新高中學制已為所有科目的內容和要求帶來變化。本文審視地理科新課程的性質及教師和學生須要面對的挑戰。在作出討論時，這些挑戰被視為擴闊學習範圍及改善學習成果質素的機會。結論是教師和學生都應就著教授和學習過程作出適當改變。同時，教育局及考評局也應就著課程和評核過程持續作出改善。
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This article presents the finding of an interim evaluation survey commissioned by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong on the effectiveness of the curriculum reform initiated in 2001. Drawing upon change theories for analysis of the study, the article examines the perceptions of both principals and teachers on the effectiveness of short-term curriculum development in schools from 2001 to 2006 through self-administered questionnaire survey as well as focus group interviews. The quantitative survey shows that evaluations from principals were more positive than those of frontline teachers in many aspects of the reform. Data collected from focus group interviews help explain the discrepancy in attitudes of these two stakeholder groups towards the reform. Insufficient knowledge, lack of support and consensus, and top-down initiation of the reform are the reasons accounting for the different responses to the reform. Strengthening professional development programs and developing a culture of collegiality and collaboration are the strategies recommended to improve the implementation of the curriculum reform in the medium-term phase (2007-2011).
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