Students need to be endowed with generic skills so as to meet the challenges of an ever changing and knowledge-based information society like Hong Kong. Traditional education systems that focus on memorization and examination cannot satisfy these new demands. So there is a need for the shift of learning and teaching (L&T). This paper shares the experience of launching "Peer Tutoring" in Advanced-Level Pure Mathematics subject in one school. It focuses on how peer tutoring influences students' learning behaviors and attitudes, learning effectiveness and skill promotion. The change of roles for students and teachers, advantages and limitations of peer tutoring will also be discussed.
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A healthy lifestyle determines a person's long-term health more than any other behaviour. A lifetime of health education should begin during childhood and carry on throughout adolescence. In Hong Kong, however, health education for young people in secondary schools is limited to biology and physical education lesson. As a result of less attention paid to lifestyle and health consciousness, serious health problems can ensue. This study will investigate the experience of Hong Kong young people (N=150) with regard to health education, their actual lifestyles and attempt to identify the predictors of health behaviour. The data and results obtained will be crucial for designing an effective health promotion programme for young people in the future.
健康的生活模式，比任何其他行為更能影響人的長遠健康；因此終身的健康教育，應由童年開始延伸至青年期。可是，香港中學普遍缺乏健教；只有「生物」及「體育」課是跟健教有關的。忽視生活模式及健康意識，可帶來嚴重的健康問題。本研究收集了150名香港年青人接受健康教育的經驗，以及他們的實際生活模式。研究所得資料，對將來設計一套推動青年健康教育的策略非常重要。
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雖然香港社會十分富裕，物質生活又十分充裕，但精神生活卻十分空虛。一般人都缺乏勞動而營養過多，引致身心不健康。孩子的數目也較從前少，所以孩子是父母的寶貝，大部分孩子都受父母的保護，甚至溺愛，加上社會和學校都不重視健康教育，不少研究發現香港的兒童、青少年和成年人身心靈都不健康。學校是兒童和青少年最重要和最有效的學習場所，所以學校肩負維護和增進學生身心健康的重大責任，而本文作者在其學校裏全力推動健康教育，當中包括學校政策、校舍環境、教學內容、健康服務、健康技能訓練，人際關係，校風建立，社區聯繫，學校合作等各方面。
Although Hong Kong is a wealthy society in physical terms, spiritual life seems to be hollow. Many people lack physical activities that may lead to over-nutrition and diminishing of health. Parents tend to protect or even spoil their only child. In addition, research conducted in Hong Kong concluded that health education is not considered important in schools and the society at large. Consequently, children, adolescents and adults were found at risk with regard to physical and spiritual health. Schools should be responsible for maintaining and promoting the healthy life of students, since they are the most important and efficient places for learning. In this respect, the author undertakes a concentrated effort in promoting health education in her school. Health education should include school policy, school environment, education content, health services, health skills training, interpersonal relationships, school spirit, community connections, family-school cooperation, etc.
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In 1997, the Education Department issued the Sex Education Guidelines for schools, originally with the aim to promote comprehensive sex education. Unfortunately, the Education Department did not, in practice, implement the guidelines. Two years on, sex education in schools is virtually at a stand still. This article analyzes why and the role of the Education Department in the promotion of sex education. In the millenium, there ought to be indepth sex education, which is more interactive and with a gender perspective, what this article call Gender Equality Education.
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香港自開埠以來，社會地方語言及中小學主流教學語言均採用廣州話。本文旨在分享一所學校自2000年開始，前後共用了五年時間，將小學一至六年級中文科教學語言由廣州話改用普通話教學。文章內容分享其轉變的原因、推行情況和成效的體驗，藉以推廣以普通話教中文的新文化。
The locally popular Cantonese dialect has always been the mainstream medium of instruction in the territories' primary and secondary schools. This article analyses a primary school's switch from Cantonese to Putonghua to teach Chinese language within five years starting from 2000, and by discussing the causes, implementing process, and results of the transition, attempts to promote adopting Putonghua as the medium of instruction of Chinese language in Hong Kong.
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香港小學的體育科科主任在教育及課程改革的思潮下，仍然身擔繁重的教學工作及行政職務。本文嘗試探討小學體育科科主任對領導技巧的重要性排序，從而討論小學體育科科主任應如何於教育及課程改革下，憑著其既有的專業訓練和經驗，配合教育領導技巧的理論，轉化為實用的領導技巧，接受『變』為學校的新文化。
Chairpersons of Physical Education (P.E.) Panels of Hong Kong primary schools, amid the climate of Education and Curriculum Reforms, still bear heavy workload derived from teaching and administration tasks. In this article, we would like to investigate the PE panel chairpersons' ranking of the importance of various leadership skills. A discussion of how P. E. Panel chairpersons of primary schools can mingle their received professional training and experiences with the theories of educational leadership skills, so as to transform into practical leadership skills and to accept "change" as a new school culture will also be conducted.
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現代公民的發展，重視公民的積極民生參與，學校公民教育亦逐漸以主動公民取代被動公民的教育。香港回歸後的學校公民教育政策，開展公民積極參與的學習環境和機會，學校開始重視有選擇性參與的學生會活動。本文嘗試從探討學校學生會選舉，了解香港學校「參與性公民」教育的發展，並指出其中困難所在。
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