The Outstanding School Award as a Quality School Culture Movement

1. The Outstanding School Award asa Quality School Culture Movement Cheung Wing Ming Chair, OSA Dissemination Working Group Debriefing Session for Schools on 2 February 2002

2. Quality School Education Enhancement of Education Quality Development of Quality School Culture

3. What kind of capacity a school should have in order to meet the mega-trend and related challenges ahead? • Responsiveness • Adaptability • Proactiveness through continuous self reflection, self learning and self renewal.

4. Objectives of OSA • Recognise and encourage outstanding school practices. • Disseminate outstanding and good school practices.

5. Objectives of OSA • Develop quality school culture in which schools engage in continuous self reflection / evaluation, self learning and self renewal based on their own unique conditions.

6. OSA as a Two-stage Quality School Culture Movement Stage 1 Identification and award of outstanding and good practices. Stage 2 Dissemination of outstanding and good practices for development of quality school culture in the long run.

7. OSA Framework • Developed from related literature of SBM and Effective School. • Made reference to QAI framework.

8. Nature of OSA • OSA as self initiated certification process – benchmarking • Not external audit – evidence provided by schools • Not comparison among schools

9. Award Framework Management and Organization (25 indicators) Teaching and Learning (25 indicators) Students’ Attainment ( 8 indicators) Support for Students and School Ethos (32 indicators)

10. Design Parameter • In line with education reform, emphasis on all-round development of students. • All criteria and expected standards should be set to facilitate school-based management. • Emphasize self-set school goals, and standards, as well as self-evaluation for school’s self-learning and continuous development.

11. Expected standards of excellent practices should emphasize more on process standards in recognising outstanding school practices. • Emphasize on value-addedness and transferred value-addedness. • Adjudication of the nominations is criterion-referenced. • Continuous review of grade descriptors as quality education culture takes root. • Emphasis should be given to schools’ unique conditions and needs.

12. Level of Performance • Outstanding • Good • Satisfactory • Insufficient evidence for judgment

13. Procedures Stage One – Submission of evidence Stage Two – Initial assessment Stage Three – School visit Stage Four – Final selection Stage Five – Announcement of result and award presentation

14. Quality Assurance Mechanism • Consistency building before adjudication process. • Consistency building during adjudication process. • Cross-domain consistency. • International Consultants as QA advisers.

15. Winning Schools OSA Schools Domain 1 – Management and Organization Oi Kwan Road Baptist Church Lui Kowk Pat Fong Kindergarten 愛群道浸信會呂郭碧鳳幼稚園 Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School 沙田崇真中學 Tai Kok Tsui Catholic Primary School (Hoi Fan Road) 大角嘴天主教小學 ( 海帆道 ) West Island School 西島學校

16. Winning Schools OSA Schools Domain 3 – Support for Students and School Ethos Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School 仁愛堂田家炳中學 Domain 4 – Students’ Attainment Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin) 沙田蘇浙公學

17. Winning Schools COM Schools Domain 1 – Management and Organization Hang Seng School of Commerce 恒生商學書院 Law Ting Pong Secondary School 羅定邦中學 Po Leung Kuk Luk Hing Too Primary School 保良局陸慶濤小學 Po Leung Kuk Wu Chung College 保良局胡忠中學 SKH Ka Fuk Wing Chun Primary School 聖公會嘉福榮真小學

18. Winning Schools COM Schools Domain 2 – Teaching and Learning Hong Chi Morninghill School, Tsui Lam 匡智翠林晨崗學校 Hong Kong Ling Liang Church Kindergarten 香港靈糧堂幼稚園 Po Leung Kuk Chee Jing Yin Primary School (A.M.) 保良局朱正賢小學 (上午校) Po Leung Kuk Law’s Foundation School 保良局羅氏信託學校 SKH Ka Fuk Wing Chun Primary School 聖公會嘉福榮真小學 SKH Wing Chun Primary School 聖公會榮真小學 Tai Po Old Market Public School (P.M.) 大埔舊墟公立學校 (下午校)

19. Winning Schools COM Schools Domain 3 – Support for Students and School Ethos Clementi Secondary School 金文泰中學 Lam Tin Methodist Primary School 藍田循道衛理小學 Shatin Tsung Tsin Secondary School 沙田崇真中學

20. Winning Schools COM Schools Domain 4 – Students’ Attainment Belilios Public School 庇理羅士女子中學 Po Leung Kuk Luk Hing Too Primary School 保良局陸慶濤小學 Yan Chai Hospital No. 2 Secondary School 仁濟醫院第二中學

21. Lesson Learnt • General good performance of school – gradual progression towards excellence. • Need to put more effort in school planning • Maintenance plan • Development plan • Need to put more effort in self evaluation and learning for further action – learning school • Meaning of self-evaluation • Technology

22. Adjudication process – submission of evidence • Evidence not fit grade descriptors • Substantial volume of evidence • Correlation between grade descriptors. • Sector-specific conditions in the present stage of development of school education, e.g. planning, student support. • The need to further develop OSA Scheme from a more holistic perspective. • The need to further develop the concept of Certification of Merit.

23. Way Forward • Dissemination of outstanding practices and lesson learnt • Dissemination activities at 4 levels • School sector (e.g. Feb 2, 2002 Seminar and March 16, 2002 Conference) • Parents • Education Department’s colleagues • Community