天主教學校校監校長分享會

Experience Sharing Session for Supervisors and Principals of Catholic Schools

29.11.2002

    天主教教育事務處於十一月二十九日舉行天主教學校校監校長分享會。由教育事務主教代表胡路明女士主持，共二百四十五位校監與校長出席。

     陳志明副主教首先帶領祈禱。接著由陳日君主教致開會詞，他指出教育工作是天主的事務，最重要的投資就是愛。胡路明女士在導言中，強調座談會主要目的是跟進透過兩份問卷：「天主教學校的期望」及「教授宗教及有關科目」所收集的資料。因此座談會的主講嘉賓香港教育學院教務長張永明博士就有關資料，講解宗教教育的課程發展架構，期望透過有系統的宗教培育，天主教學校學生可接受全人教育及成為具基督精神的人，以配合教區會議的建議。他並建議各校長跟進以下事項：

    講座後，聖保祿學校校長（中學部）黃金蓮修女分享她最近在一個北京學術交流團所得到有關心理健康教育、品德與生活課程及品德與社會課程的資料。

     分享會的第二部份是小組討論。各校長分組研究如何跟進張永明博士所提出的四項建議。而校監則集中討論校長持續專業發展、校長工作表現評核及2002年教育（修訂）條例草案等事項。

     校監及校長在討論時提出許多可推動天主教教育的建議。他們認為座談會是一個讓他們交換意見和解決問題的渠道，值得繼續舉辦。

                    A total of 245 Catholic School Supervisors and Principals attended an experience sharing session organized by the Catholic Education Office on 29^th November 2002.

                 The sharing session commenced with prayers led by Fr. Dominic Chan, V.G., which was followed by an opening address by Bishop Joseph Zen.  The Bishop told the participants that they were doing the work of God and love was the greatest investment in their work.  Miss Alice Woo, Episcopal Delegate for Education, in her introduction stressed that the primary objective of the sharing session was to follow up the data collected from the surveys on ‘Expectation of Catholic Schools’ and ‘Teaching of Religious Studies and Related Subjects’.  For this purpose, the guest speaker, Dr. Francis Cheung, Registrar of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, drew up a general framework for the development of a religious education curriculum which hopefully, would help nurture all round students manifesting Christian spirit as recommended by the Diocesan Synod.  Based on this, the principals were advised to take the following steps, viz (i) to seek basic consensus from their staff on the content of the framework; (ii) each school to further develop the framework according to its vision and mission; (iii) to develop the strategic planning ability and self-evaluation skills of the middle management and the teaching staff; (iv) to develop teaching/learning strategy for improving the quality of Catholic education.  Following the talk, Sister Margaret Wong, Principal of St. Paul’s Convent School, (Secondary Section) shared information on moral and mental health education obtained during an educational tour to Beijing.

                 In the second part of the sharing session, the Principals were divided into small groups to discuss on the proposals recommended by Dr. Cheung.  The Supervisors, on the other hand, focused their attention on issues such as principals’ continuing professional development, appraisal system and the Education (Amendment) Bill 2002.

                 The sharing session drew enormous response from the Supervisors and Principals.  They contributed towards devising practicable proposals for the promotion of Catholic education.  It was unanimously agreed that sharing session of this kind provided a much needed avenue for exchange of views among the Catholic educators and should continue to be organized in future.