The Dynamic Trio

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The Dynamic Trio
Experience-sharing at EMB Workshop
Tsung Tsin College Robin Cheung
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The Moving School Model
SSD
SSI
Future
ESR
SSE
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SSE ESR SSD
SSI
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SSE in TTC

• Began from 90s
• Past 360
• Now more focused on LT
• Past Staff Appraisal Committee
• Now SSE SSI Committee
• Recent student voice

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SSE after ESR in TTC

• By KLAs
• CEM (centrally administered) Other KLAs
  (within subjects)
• APASO
• Stakeholders Surveys
• Appraisal of middle managers leadership

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Follow-up on SSE in TTC

• Survey statistics
• Discussions with panel heads
• Recommendations for action
• - Administrative change or support
• - Staff development needs
• generic knowledge skills
• subject specific knowledge skills
• paradigm shift vision values

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Common Target Areas for SSI

• School administration
• School ethos
• Learning Teaching

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To achieve SSIyou often need SSD (a
capacity-building issue)
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School Capacity

• Knowledge, skills staffs disposition
• Professional community
• Program coherence
• Technical resource
• Principal leadership

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Foci of SSD in TTC

• School-wide needs shared vision
• Generic knowledge, skills, values, etc.
• Subject-specific pedagogical-content
• Leadership capacity
• Professional community

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Example 1 VP

• Improvement Issue in Organization Management
  Domain
• ESR suggestion
• One more vice-principal
• to assist
• the principal
• Schools Interpretation
• More distributed leadership at the top
• More leadership capacity for senior staff
• Better coordination and synergy

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Example 1 VP

• SSI Efforts
• Appointment of 3APs to work with VP P
• Role definition, domains persons i/c
• Establishment of Administration Core Group
• Problem-based learning learning to lead by
  doing
• Structured learning reading short courses
• Coordination synergy
• - Morning coffee chats about school issues
• - Bi-weekly staff briefings
• - Quarterly progress reviews

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Example 2

• Improvement Issues in L T Domain
• SSE ESR Findings Inadequacies in
• Questioning techniques
• Group learning activities
• Student self-learning skills
• Student motivation

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Example 2

• SSE Efforts in L T
• IQCT Committee
• questioning/ co-operative learning/ R/ IT in
  learning
• In-house courses
• performance management
• co-operative learning
• Policy reviews
• class streaming/ assessment/ catering for
  diversity, etc.
• Learning study lesson plans
• professional learning squares or trios
• Other initiatives of the Schools Staff
  Professional Development Committee
• (Colleagues presentation)

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• Our presentation
• only
• a brief introduction of the schools policy
  direction and experimentation
• rather than
• a comprehensive account of the inner workings of
  the Trio
• or
• its full-blown success

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• Thank You!