Annual Report 2007–08

50 Partnership with Schools The Centre for University and School Partnership (CUSP) of the Faculty of Education celebrated its 10th anniversary in the year under review. CUSP has established partnerships with over 600 kindergartens, primary and secondary schools to promote quality education in the midst of education reforms. Stressing both theory and practice, CUSP has won acclaims from the education sector for enhancing the quality of teaching. In 2008, CUSP succeeded in obtaining HK$10 million from the Education Bureau (EDB) to embark on a two- year school improvement and curriculum leadership project named ‘School Improvement Project for Early Childhood Education’, which aims at helping 60 kindergartens to develop a reflective culture for sustained improvement. The Department of Curriculum and Instruction, supported by CUSP, also obtained an EDB grant of HK$13 million to launch the two-year ‘Support for Transition to the Implementation and Leadership of Liberal Studies’ project which provides school- based support to 52 secondary schools for a smooth transition to the New Senior Secondary Curriculum in 2009. In 2007–08, the ‘Accelerated Schools for Quality Education’ project led by Prof. John C.K. Lee, director of CUSP, won the Quality Education Fund (QEF) Outstanding Project Award. The three-year project helped participating schools to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and to map strategic development priorities by means of a university–school partnership model in three dimensions: school administration, curriculum and teaching, parents and community. It received over HK$60 million from the QEF in 1998, one of the highest amounts awarded since the inception of the fund and served 50 schools, benefiting over 60,000 teachers, students and parents. 教育學院李子建教授（中）及 鍾宇平教授（左）領獎 Prof. John C.K. Lee (centre) and Prof. Chung yue-ping (left), Faculty of Education, receiving the award 大學與學校夥伴協作中心慶祝成立十周年 Celebrating the 10th anniversary of CUSP 與學校結成夥伴 教育學院大學與學校夥伴協作中心是年 度慶祝成立十周年。中心一向配合香港的 教育改革，推動優質教育，曾與超過六百 所中、小學及幼稚園結成夥伴，透過理 論與實踐，雙管齊下，提升教師的專業水 平，備受教育界讚許。 中心於二零零八年獲教育局撥款一千萬， 開展為期兩年的「幼兒教育達善計劃」， 為學前教育界別提供專業支援，促進領導 的發展、學校改進和課程改革。該計劃將 協助六十所幼稚園建立反思文化，從而持 續精進。 另外，配合二零零九年通識教育成為高中 課程的必修科目，課程與教學學系在中心 的協助下獲得教育局撥款一千三百萬，推 行為期兩年的「通識教育支援計劃－課程 銜接與發展」項目，向五十二所中學提供 校本支援，使學校順利過渡至新高中課 程。 在二零零七至零八年度，中心主任李子建 教授領導的「優質教育躍進學校計劃」榮 獲優質教育基金傑出計劃獎。該三年計 劃在行政、課程與教學、家長與社區三方 面，協助參與學校檢視其強弱項，定出發 展策略的緩急次序，使學校在面對各種教 育改革時，能朝着清晰的目標邁進。計劃 於一九九八年獲優質教育基金撥款六千 多萬，為歷年獲最高撥款額計劃之一，共 服務了五十所中小學，受惠師生及家長 逾六萬人。