The adoption of a whole school approach to guidance work in Hong Kong secondary schools : some case studies

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuk-wah Leung
Author(s):  
Ntombizandile Gcelu ◽  
◽  
Amy Sarah Padayachee ◽  
Sekitla Daniel Makhasane

South African schools are faced with a serious problem of indiscipline. The available literature reveals that despite the efforts of school administrators and teachers to instil discipline among learners, indiscipline still abounds to the extent of getting out of hand. Based on the intention of this study, a qualitative study was adopted. A qualitative-based study underpinned by the interpretive research paradigm was employed to explore the perspectives of educators in their collaborative roles in managing discipline. The sample comprised twelve educators who were purposively selected from four secondary schools in the Ilembe District, KwaZulu-Natal. A semi-structured interview schedule was used to collect the data. The findings revealed that educators should apply the school code of conduct as a whole-school approach to managing discipline to create meaningful relationships with parents as stakeholders and communicate expected behaviours with learners. It is recommended that in implementing strategies to manage discipline, learners, educators, school managers and the school governing boards of all schools should take a collaborative approach to the management of discipline in secondary schools


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Chun Cherry Au ◽  
Kerry John Kennedy

Students’ mental health is an alarming issue in Hong Kong, thereby increasing concern from psychologists, who attempted to implement positive education programs to equip students with skills to counteract mental health problems. This study followed the practice from positive psychology and conducted a Flourishing Life program based on the framework of the PERMA model in a secondary setting. The aims of the present paper are two-fold: to report the effort of the program and to evaluate the program’s effectiveness. A mixed-method sequential explanatory research design, including survey (n = 495) and subsequent two focus-group interviews (n = 8), was adopted to assess the program’s effectiveness. Results indicated that Forms Two and Three students (Grades 8 and 9) benefited more from the program than the Form One students (Grade 7). Overall, students reported that they had benefitted from the program. Findings provide supporting evidence to the whole-school approach program that operated effectively within the existing curriculum. This research may provide a direction for school curriculum leaders to promote students’ wellbeing by infusing essence from positive psychology to the school curriculum.


Author(s):  
Margaret K. Merga ◽  
Saiyidi Mat Roni ◽  
Anabela Malpique

The needs of struggling literacy learners beyond the early years of schooling warrant greater attention. For struggling literacy learners to attain their academic, vocational, and social goals, schools should position literacy as a whole school priority and enhance opportunities for student literacy learning across all learning areas. However, it is not known if literacy is typically supported as a whole school commitment in contemporary secondary schools. This paper draws on survey data from the Australian nation-wide 2019 Supporting Struggling Secondary Literacy Learners (SSSLL) project. Findings suggest that many mainstream secondary school teachers do not perceive that there is a whole-school approach to support struggling literacy learners in their schools, or that there are adequate strategies and supports to meet the needs of struggling literacy learners in their schools. Findings also suggest that regardless of place, school leadership commitment to ensuring that struggling literacy learners have their literacy skills developed across all learning areas may be crucial to the realization of a supportive whole-school culture for struggling literacy learners.


1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eadaoin K. P. Hui ◽  
Rita C. C. Lo

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Dursun Aksu ◽  
Fatih Selim Sellüm

In the digital age, it is expected that students will not only have experience and passion for reading, but also will develop their reading skills to learn. Reading is one of the most important skills that develop the human and increase life-long learning capacity. Individuals can improve their personal, moral and emotional qualities to strengthen their sense of responsibility towards the family, society, nation and the world through reading. The individual can develop his personal, moral and emotional qualities in order to strengthen the sense of responsibility towards his family, society, nation and the world through reading.The life experiences of elementary school students are limited, but effective readings help to expand their horizons and perspectives. People can bring their knowledge and experiences together by reading. At the time of reading, students should have the ability to put out the deep meaning of the text, their learning experiences, and the ability to put new knowledge on their prior knowledge to build meaning. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most comprehensive educational research at the international level. The PISA survey, conducted every three years since 2000, aims to measure students' achievement in science, reading skills and mathematics. When our country's reading performance is compared with other countries, it is seen that it is ranked 50th among the 70 countries participating in the program in 2015. Hong Kong, which participated in the same program, appears to be the 2nd. The purpose of this research is to examine the "whole school approach" adopted by Hong Kong, performed high reading achievement in 2012 and 2015 PISA exams, during the learning and development of reading and the studies it has carried out based on it.  For this purpose, Hong Kong's Basic Education Program Guide will be reviewed. The sections in which the success of reading in the PISA examinations and the effects of the whole school approach on this success were examined by the researchers and translated into Turkish. The data obtained were reviewed with language experts. The content analysis of the data has been made and three themes have been created that reveal all aspects of the (whole school approach TO: (1) Identify the Whole school approach (WSA), (2) School responsibilities in Whole school approach (WSA) and (3) Stakeholders' responsibilities in the Whole school approach (WSA). The results of the research show that there are responsibilities and responsibilities to school administrators, school program development experts, teacher-librarians, teachers, parents and students in improving reading performance with the whole school approach. It was concluded that the task and responsibility of gaining reading performance and habit should not be left to teachers only. In addition, success in improving reading performance with the whole school approach can be achieved in proportion of each stakeholder performing their duties.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetDijital çağda, bilgi temelli toplumdaki taleplerle başa çıkabilmek için, öğrencilerden yalnızca deneyimleri ve okuma tutkusuna sahip olması beklenmemekte, aynı zamanda öğrenmek için okuma becerilerini de geliştirmesi beklenmektedir. Okuma, insanı bir bütün olarak geliştiren ve yaşam boyu öğrenme kapasitesini artıran en önemli becerilerden biridir.  Birey okuma yoluyla ailesine, toplumuna, milletine ve dünyaya karşı sorumluluk duygularını güçlendirmek için kendi kişisel, ahlaki ve duygusal niteliklerini geliştirebilir. Yine okuma yoluyla farklı fikir, görüş, değer ve kültürlere açık görüşlülükle yaklaşmayı öğrenir.İlkokul öğrencilerinin yaşam deneyimleri sınırlıdır, ancak etkili okumalar ufuklarını ve perspektiflerini genişletmeye yardımcı olur. İnsanlar okumalarla bilgilerini ve deneyimlerini bir araya getirebilir. Okuma sırasında öğrencilerin, metnin derin anlamını çıkarabilmeleri, anlam kurmaları için önbilgilerinin üzerine öğrenme deneyimlerini ve yeni bilgiyi koyabilme becerisine sahip olması gerekir. Uluslararası Öğrenci Değerlendirme Programı (PISA) uluslararası düzeyde fen, matematik ve okuma alanlarında yapılan önemli bir eğitim araştırmasıdır. 2000 yılında başlamıştır ve üç yılda bir tekrarlanan PISA araştırması, öğrencilerin fen, okuma becerileri ve matematik alanlarındaki başarı durumu ölçmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Ülkemizin okuma alanındaki başarısı diğer ülkelerle karşılaştırmalı olarak incelendiğinde 2015 yılında programa katılan 70 ülke arasında 50. sırada yer alındığı görülür. Aynı programa katılan Hong Kong’un ise 2. olduğu görülmektedir. Bu araştırmanın amacı 2012 ve 2015 PISA sınavlarında okuma alanında yüksek başarı gösteren Hong Kong’un okumanın öğrenilmesi ve geliştirilmesi sürecinde benimsediği “tüm okul yaklaşımı”nı ve buna dayalı gerçekleştirdiği çalışmaları incelemektir. Bu amaçla Hong Kong’un Temel Eğitim Program Kılavuzu incelenmiştir. Kılavuzda PISA sınavlarında okuma bölümünde elde edilen başarının ve tüm okul yaklaşımının bu başarıya etkilerinin anlatıldığı bölümler araştırmacılar tarafından incelenmiş ve Türkçeye çevrilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler dil uzmanlarıyla tekrar gözden geçirilmiştir. Verilerin içerik analizi yapılmış ve “ tüm okul yaklaşımının” tüm yönleriyle ortaya koyan üç tema oluşturulmuştur: (1) Tüm Okul Yaklaşımını (TOY) tanıma, (2) TOY okulda yapılaması gerekenler ve (3) TOY paydaşların rolleri. Araştırma sonuçları tüm okul yaklaşımıyla okuma performansının geliştirilmesinde okul yöneticilerine, okul program geliştirme uzmanlarına, öğretmen-kütüphanecilere, öğretmenlere, ebeveynlere ve öğrencilere sorumluluk ve görevler düştüğü göstermektedir. Okuma performansı ve alışkanlığının kazandırılması görev ve sorumluluğu sadece öğretmenlere bırakılmaması gerektiği sonucuna varılmıştır. Ayrıca tüm okul yaklaşımıyla okuma performansının artırılmasındaki başarı, her paydaşın üzerine düşen görevleri yapması oranında sağlanabilir.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Caeiro ◽  
Leyla Angélica Sandoval Hamón ◽  
Rute Martins ◽  
Cecilia Elizabeth Bayas Aldaz

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a crucial role in implementing practices for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This implementation should be done in different dimensions according to a holistic and whole-school approach. Different tools have been adapted and developed to assess this integrated approach. The aim of this research is to critically reflect the existing tools to assess and benchmark ESD implementation and to discuss their applicability in two case studies. Two public Universities in Southern Europe, with headquarters in the capitals of Portugal and Spain were selected to assess and compare the integration of ESD according to a whole-school approach—Universidade Aberta in Portugal and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. After a critical analysis of the existing tools based on literature review and a list of criteria classified by experts, two tools were selected to be applied in the case studies. The online Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System Reporting Tool was used in Universidade Aberta and Green Metrics tool was used in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The tools were complemented with focus group with key-actors in both universities. The results obtained allowed to identify the need to define a common objective of the assessment tools and limitations they still have. The tools need improvements on their development namely to integrate the external impact of Higher Education Institutions on sustainability, to integrate participatory processes and to assess non-traditional aspects of sustainability. This research hopes to contribute to the continuous research about the usefulness of these assessment and benchmarking tools as drivers to HEIs improve their sustainability performance and their role as agents of changes.


2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Forlin

In comparison to international perspectives, the specific role of the school psychologist in Hong Kong will provide a case study of the tensions experienced by a system in transition between a very traditional, highly segregated education system, to one that is actively promoting a whole school approach to inclusion. Consideration will initially be given to the development of inclusive education and the identification of quality learning outcomes for students. The role of the school psychologists in Hong Kong and the challenges they face will be compared to other international jurisdictions, focusing on both internal and external influences that have impacted on their role in recent years.


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