Quality Circles20052006

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Quality Circles2005/2006

• Name of QC Inspire

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• The mediocre teacher tells.
• The good teacher explains.
• The superior teacher demonstrates.
• The great teacher inspires.
• - William Arthur Ward

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Members

• Cheng Yin Mei
• Chan Ching Fan
• Lai Suet Yim
• Tang Pui Han
• Keung Sau Ying
• Li Kwong Tak
• Lai Tuen Lei

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Area of Concern

• Students have difficulty in knowledge
  consolidationthey could not establish links with
  prior knowledge and have difficulty remembering
  facts.

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• reflective writing
• ????

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Research questions

• How can reflective writing help students to
  consolidate knowledge more effectively ?

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Contributing questions

• 1.How can we evaluate the
• effectiveness on the use of
• reflective writing ?
• 2.How do reflective writing
• help in the thought process
• of students?

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Outcomes

• 1.Students should be able to complete reflective
  writing.
• 2.Students should consolidate knowledge more
  effectively through reflective writing.

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Strategies

• The use of reflective writing.
• At the end of each topic, each student has to
  jot down the main points and record any
  observations about the lesson concerned .

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Beliefs Assumptions underlying strategies

• Beliefs
• 1.Knowledge was built up through
• transformation and construction.
• 2.Reflective writing help constructing
• and transforming knowledge.

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Beliefs Assumptions underlying strategies

• Assumptions
• 1.Students only receive information
• during lessons.
• 2.Students misunderstand
• information is equal to knowledge.
• all the time.

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A Class Schedule indicating the class in which
the plan will be carried out

• Lau Kin Chung 3B CN
• Cheng Yin Mei 1D IH
• Chan Ching Fan 2D IH
• Lai Suek Yim 6S BIO
• Tang Pui Han 3A IH
• Keung Sau Ying 2A CH
• Li Kwong Tak 6A CA
• Lai Tuen Lei 2B CH

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Time Schedule of Implementation and Evaluation of
strategy

• The programme will be
• Implemented from 16/1/2006 to
• 21/4/2006 and evaluated From 24/4/2006
  to 19/5/2006.

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Success indicators

• 1.Monitoring by teachers who judge the
• knowledge consolidation of students
• based on their subjective feelings.
• 2.Conduction of survey in the form of
• questionnaires to be filled in by
• students.

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Evaluation

• 1. Senior form students tended to record
• down what they had learnt in
• class whereas junior form students were
• more inclined to give their impressions of
  the lesson/unit taught.

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Evaluation

• 2.Through reflective writing, students could
  voice freely their opinions about the lesson in
  question so that teachers could modify or change
  their approach accordingly in order to achieve
  teaching objectives more efficiently.

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Evaluation

• 3.Teachers were able to give appropriate response
  to students reflections,thereby promoting
  stronger ties between the two parties.