Learning Strategies

Goals

  • To offer quality education, which enables students to master knowledge, concepts and skills of Humanities within the context of PSHE key stages 3.
  • To enable students to apply the above knowledge and skills to daily experience.
  • To enable students to develop the following generic skills :
    • collaboration skills
    • communication skills
    • creativity
    • critical thinking skills
    • information technology skills
    • numeracy skills
    • problem-solving skills
    • self-management skills
    • study skills, and
  • To develop students' multiple intelligence.
  • To develop students' attitude conducive to full participation in adult life and citizenship.

Teaching strategies

  • Using concepts, issues or problems as organizing centre of curriculum
  • Helping students master basic concepts, skills and develop values and attitudes
  • Catering for students' learning diversity with group work, project work and on-line supplementary materials
  • Making learning relevant to students' everyday life
  • Organizing a variety of extra-curricular activities
Curriculum

Secondary 1 Integrated Humanities

  • Using Urban Space Wisely
    • Unit 1 Urban land use
    • Unit 2 Residential and industrial land uses
    • Unit 3 Central Business District
    • Unit 4 Urban problems
    • Unit 5 Solutions to urban problems
  • Rights and Responsibilities of Citizen
  • Rights, duties and the rule of law
  • Topic 2 The development of European civilization
    • I Classical civilization: overview of ancient Greek and ancient Roman civilizations
    • II Medieval Europe and the making of Christendom
  • Topic 4 History, culture and heritage of early Hong Kong region
    • I Major groups and great clans in Hong Kong
    • II Understanding the life of local residents through Hong Kong’s intangible cultural heritage

Secondary 2 Integrated Humanities

  • Tourists Friends or Foes?
    • Unit 1 Tourism and the travel pattern of Hong Kong people
    • Unit 2 Impacts of Tourism
    • Unit 3 Tourism in Hong Kong
  • Global Shift of Manufacturing Industry. Opportunities and threats
    • Unit 1 Industry and manufacturing
    • Unit 2 Relocation of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry
    • Unit 3 Global shift of manufacturing
  • Topic 5 The rise of modern Europe
    • I From God-centred to human-centred: the Renaissance and Reformation
    • II The Age of Reason: the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
    • III Technological advancement: the Industrial Revolution
    • IV Pursuit of liberty and democracy: the French Revolution and its historical significance