Training Workshop - The Adoption of Open Textbooks

The Open Textbooks for Hong Kong Project is currently developing twelve open textbooks on the English Language subject at Primary 1 to Secondary 6 levels. Some of the units (including printed, PDF and ePub versions) will be tried out for free in the 2014-15 school year. The project team invited Hong Kong schools to attend briefing sessions on the tryout of English Language open textbooks between March and July 2014. After the briefing sessions, over 40 primary and secondary schools have agreed to become our pilot schools and joined our ‘English Language Open Textbook Tryout Scheme’. They will be using our open textbooks in the lessons and remedial classes in the 2014-15 school year.

In order to help English Language teachers from the pilot schools to have a better understanding of how students can flexibly use the printed and electronic versions of our open textbooks within and after classes, the project team will organize teacher training workshops on the adoption of open textbooks for them in late August.

Target audience:
School Principals, English Language subject panel and teachers from schools which have already joined our ‘Open Textbook Tryout Scheme 2014-15’

The workshop will cover:

How to use the open textbooks by three-phrase approach (before-class, in-class and after-class activities);
Sample lesson plan and demonstration of the use of our open textbooks;
Teaching and Learning through Multimedia Technologies;
Summary on Quality Printed Textbooks; and
Brief introduction to the evaluation requirements of the open textbook tryout scheme

The details of the briefing session for primary pilot schools are as follows:

	Date	Time	Venue
1	23^rd August 2014 (Saturday)	2:30pm – 5:15pm	Room E0811, 8/F, OUHK Jubilee College, 81 Chung Hau Street, Homantin
2	25^th August 2014 (Monday)	9:30am – 12:15pm
3	30^th August 2014 (Saturday)	2:30pm – 5:15pm

The details of the briefing session for secondary pilot schools are as follows:

	Date	Time	Venue
1	23^rd August 2014 (Saturday)	9:30am – 12:15pm	Room E0811, 8/F, OUHK Jubilee College, 81 Chung Hau Street, Homantin
2	26^th August 2014 (Tuesday)	2:30pm – 5:15pm
3	30^th August 2014 (Saturday)	9:30am – 12:15pm

Special Weather Arrangements

For 9:30am sessions
The training workshops will be postponed until further notice if Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above / Black Rainstorm Warning are still enforced at 7:00am.

For 2:30pm sessions
The training workshops will be postponed until further notice if Typhoon Signal No. 8 or above / Black Rainstorm Warning are still enforced at 12:00noon.

If you have any questions, you are most welcome to contact: Ms. Benise Wu (Tel:2768 6484 or Email: bwu@ouhk.edu.hk); or Ms. Andie Li (Tel: 2768 6482 or Email: ali@ouhk.edu.hk )