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TABS
was initiated in 1992 by a group of school effectiveness enthusiasts
including practicing secondary school principals, local university
professors and senior officers from the Education Department*.
In 2004, TABS has 30 member schools with variety of missions,
organizing bodies and funding models.
*Education Department has been restructured
to be Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) since 2003.
Our Vision
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movement aims to encourage schools to improve towards
quality and towards effectiveness through voluntary sharing
of good practices. We believe that wisdom among practitioners
could be spread to inspire similar schools to tackle local
problems. Our role is to induce such snowballing effect
so that practitioners could have a rich knowledge about
good practices, and from this knowledge, they could choose
the right project in the right time. Together with the
joint effort of the academic and government colleagues,
we offer professional assurance to the quality of education
in Hong Kong. |
TABS Nature
| 1 |
TABS
believes school effectiveness can be improved through
sharing. |
| 2. |
TABS
believes policy implementations must be "whole school"
in approach. |
| 3. |
TABS
believes schools can set their own priorities in modification
and improvement according to their own history, culture
and schedule. |
| 4. |
Members
commit themselves to help each other towards betterment
and remind each other of feasible continuous improvement
in light of valuable experience from front-line colleagues. |
| 5. |
As a group since its inception, TABS has chosen not to
involve in policy decision controversies. |
TABS Areas of Concern
We have grouped five areas of concern, very much consistent
with school improvement in practice:
| a. |
Curriculum
Development: School Based Curriculum Development (SBCD),
Bridging Programme, Remedial Programmes, connections across
Key Learning Areas (KLA), Life-wide Learning (LWL), four
Key Tasks: Moral & Civic Education, Reading to Learn,
Project Learning, Information Technology (IT) for Interactive
Learning |
| b. |
Student
Guidance: Personal Growth Education, Career Development |
| c. |
School
Management: School-Based
Management (SBM), Quality Assurance (QA), Web-based School
Administration and Management System (WebSAMS) |
| d. |
Staff
Development: Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
of Principals & Teachers, Enhancement in Middle Management
and Language Proficiency |
| e. |
Educational Issues, Theories, Policies & Practices:
Medium of Instruction (MOI), Secondary School Places Allocation
(SSPA) System, Junior Secondary Education Assessment (JSEA)
System, Senior Secondary Education, Continuity in Curriculum,
etc. |
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