Abstract
Background: Whole person development is the mission of our school. We help our students to develop their personal characters and to prepare for their own career paths. To fulfill the above challenging mission and the recent educational reform, apart form the normal classroom teaching, our school recognizes the importance and value of experiential or activity based education. Hence, we introduced the Activity Week Experience (AWE) Programme to provide our students a week of diversified learning experiences out of the ordinary classroom! All students are invited to join different organized programmes based on our own interest and abilities.
Aims: This paper is going to discuss the main concerns on organizing such a school-wide experiential learning activity and how our teachers also learn together with our students.
Sample: The programme has only been conducted in our school. Hence, Tak Sun Secondary School is the only information source.
Method: Personal experience, professional discussion and relevant Government documents were used in drafting the paper.
Results: A series of guidelines were suggested as reminders for the teachers and the school if they would like to produce similar school-wide activities. To start a similar school-wide activity, the school should put the school mission and the safety of the students at the first priority. Then, with the strong support from different school stakeholders, the activity would be implemented smoothly. Otherwise, it will be a waste of resources.
Conclusion: Activity Week Experience (AWE) Programme is a core activity on the Whole Person Education in our school. Hence, a precise plan to prepare all activities in the programme is essential to its success. This helps our teachers in their activities producing a better and wider learning environment for our next generation.
| Keywords: | experiential learning; Activity Week Experience Programme; whole person development |
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