賽馬會悅學計劃支援融合生資源套

Supported by a donation of over HK$10 million from The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the three-year Jockey Club SMILE Project, undertaken by the Department of Special Education and Counselling and the Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education (CSENIE), was completed in 2016. The project aimed to enhance the knowledge and skills of frontline teachers to support students with special educational needs, especially students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Intellectual Disability (ID). A total of 145 schools, amounting to 5,100 students with special educational needs, 7,400 teachers and 2,300 parents, benefited from the project. As part of the Centre’s ongoing efforts to foster knowledge transfer, the project team had prepared a resource kit based on previous experience and the project’s outcomes for dissemination to all schools in Hong Kong.

CSENIE held a launch ceremony on 12 May 2017 for the set of resource kit, and Professor Kenneth Sin Kuen-fung, principal investigator of the project and Director of CSENIE, said at the ceremony that “compared to existing teacher training models, the school-based and focus-based support strategies used in the Jockey Club SMILE Project are indeed innovative breakthroughs. The manpower and work coordination needs are more complicated than in general teacher training courses. However, the experience gained from this project has provided good reference for future teacher training and the development of inclusive education in Hong Kong”.