Roles and Commitments

Helping Project Schools to

• review and assess the strengths and needs of schools
• formulate the school-based talent development and gifted education policy consistent with schools’ major concerns and development plan
• develop a School-based Student and Talent Database
• establish a gifted education support network within the school & an inter-school collaboration platform for teachers

Providing school personnel with professional training by local professional staff and academicians, and overseas world-renowned scholars in gifted education to

• enhance school leaders’ role in promoting and orchestrating school-based talent development and gifted education
• advance teachers’ knowledge in gifted education and their skills/strategies in catering for students with high ability/giftedness
• strengthen teachers’ skills in conducting action research and evaluation to examine the effectiveness of learning and teaching

Collaborating with school teachers to

• infuse the key elements of gifted education into the core curricula of Chinese Language Education, English Language Education, Mathematics Education and/or General Studies in primary schools, or into the core curricula of Mathematics and Science Education in secondary schools
• enrich the curricula of the above listed KLAs for students in regular classroom learning
• develop differentiated curricula and pull-out programs for students with high ability/giftedness in the above specified areas

Collaborating and supporting school teachers to organize school-based pull-out programs and activities to

• enhance the cognitive and personal-social development of gifted students
• promote self-understanding and psychological well-being among students with high ability/giftedness
• strengthen the skills of gifted students in emotional management, communication and collaboration, and independent research

Collaborating and supporting teachers to organize activities to help parents to

• understand the importance of talent development to address children’s individual differences and interests
• understand the characteristics and needs of gifted and talented children, and their roles in nurturing gifted children

All key schools and network schools will be supported with

• HK$10,000 per school year for talent development and gifted education provision
• subsidy for teachers to participate in gifted education professional development programs including overseas gifted conferences and related activities

Key schools will be provided with

• HK$330,000 per school year to release the teaching load of GE coordinators or curriculum leaders for collaborations with Project GIFT to develop school-based gifted education and support other network schools.