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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, and later restructured to Education Bureau in 2007.
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 |
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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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