Insight: secondary school September 2021∣Youth Hong Kong
A totally new experience l Schools had to respond with great urgency to the sudden changes caused by the pandemic.
l 因應疫情變化，學校需要迅速應變並不斷 調整應對策略。
l Mr Dennis Mok, deputy principal of the HKFYG Lee Shau Kee College, talks about the experimentation that took place.
l 香港青年協會李兆基書院莫一帆副校長為 我們介紹學校採取的應對措施。
l He explains the continuous learning curve for teachers, the current hybrid mode and all the challenges caused by change.
l 他解釋，老師需要不斷學習新技能調整教 學方法，目前學校採取混合教學模式，以 應對新學年的挑戰。
This process involved a continuous learning curve for The school adopted a mixed mode of teaching but faceeducators. “Our learning interface dealt with unprecedented to-face instruction and online lessons performed in challenges. This was a totally new experience for teachers parallel were very challenging. Difficulties were overcome who had to constantly change their teaching modes by experimenting, Mr Mok recalls. “In the early days, depending on the situation: from face-to-face instruction while everyone was getting used to cameras and mics on to online lessons and back again.” Some extracurricular computers, online classes tended to flow into one-way activities, such as debates, teaching but in order to make were moved online. As classes on Zoom efficient, Online classes tended to flow Mr Mok says, “This was improve student participation a real test of the teachers’ and enable students to into one-way teaching and creativity and adaptability make instant feedback, teachers had to improvise. and subjects like physical teachers had to improvise.” education were difficult.” Nobody expected the epidemic to last such a long time and after a few months of class suspensions, Mr Mok says the school realized that important communication with parents had broken down. “We held vital parent-teacher meetings online where concerned parents told us they needed to know much more about their children's learning. We had to explain the use of various platforms such as Zoom, email, Google Classroom, Google Hangout and WhatsApp for online learning while students were submitting virtual homework.”
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