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School Background | Initial Idea | Key Elements
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School Background
- The school offers Science & Technology (S4-5) and Liberal Studies (ASL) and teachers have experiences in teaching both liberal studies and socio-scientific issues.
- In general, the students are proficient in using English language to communicate.
- The school offers Project Learning curriculum in junior secondary forms for developing students’ enquiry skills.
- There will be four secondary 4 classes in 2009. For Liberal Studies, the four classes will be divided in six groups and each group will be taught by a teacher.
Initial ideas in planning 3 year Liberal Studies curriculum
- All the six modules will be covered in the first two years. The cross-modular issues will be highlighted in Secondary 6.
- In Secondary 4, the issues from the modules 'Public Health', 'Energy Technology and the Environment' and 'Personal Development & Interpersonal Relationships' will be covered. In addition, issues related to quality of life in ‘Hong Kong Today’ will be studied.
- Students will mainly conduct Independent Enquiry Study (IES) in Secondary 5. However, curriculum time will be reserved to develop students' inquiry skills in Secondary 4.
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Key Elements (for the 1st term of Secondary 4)
A. Enquiry & process skills
In the first term of Secondary 4, the curriculum will cover Module of Public Health. The key elements including both enquiry skills and content knowledge are as below.
- Identify main points in text with major concepts
- Identify, describe and explain trend and pattern in graphs and tables
- Evaluation of information in newspapers, including news report on survey results
- Formulating enquiry questions
- Generalizing factors from specific cases and apply to new issues
- Informed decision after considerations from multi-perspectives, e.g. views of different stakeholders / social groups
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B. Key Elements (Public Health Module)
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Understanding of Public Health
- Factors affecting understanding of public health
- Historical and contemporary cases
Development of medical technology
- Risks and benefits of new medical technologies
- Acceptance of new medical technologies by the public
Health information
- Health information from different social groups
- Evaluation of health information
Public health policy
- Analysis of public health policies
- Local & global issues
- Roles of international organisations
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Learning & Assessment Objectives
The students are expected to:
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Identify the factors (including the evolution of scientific knowledge, educational level of citizens & availability of information) affecting the understanding of public health from contemporary or historical cases (2) |
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Apply the factors affecting understanding of public health to analyse contemporary issues appropriately, and provide examples/evidence to support arguments whenever appropriate (2) |
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Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of development of different medical knowledge in different cultures, e.g. degree of acceptance of Chinese medicine in Hong Kong (16) |
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Identify the values underlying different views (including moral, ethical, economical perspectives) stated or implied in acceptance of new medical technologies, such as gene therapy (5) |
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Identify contradictions and dilemmas from information related to controversial issues, and recognize the influence of personal (7) |
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Consider public health policies from perspectives of different social groups (including the roles of government, expert, commercial sector, patient, taxpayer) so as to draw conclusions (7) |
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Make judgments of reliability of health information based on a sound rationale, and identify the values underlying those information (13) |
Note: the number in ( ) refers to the item as listed in 17 general learning objectives.
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