Plan on Use of Additional Time-limited Funding of Capacity Enhancement Grant in 2005-2006 School Year

Name of school: Sam Yuk Middle School

Means by which teachers have been consulted: collect opinions by circulating the proposed plan

No. of operating classes: 8

Date: 11 April, 06.

Task Area	Major Area of concern	Strategies/Tasks	Benefits Anticipated (e.g. in what ways teachers’ workload is alleviated)	Time scale	Resources required	Success Criteria	Method(s) of Evaluation	People responsible
Territory-wide system assessment (TSA)	- To enhance students abilities to prepare for TSA in June (S3)	To employ Edfun to offer 6 sessions on TSA training, in particular to listening, reading and writing skills	Relieving teachers’ load in preparing students for TSA	From April-June	$1000 per session X 2 classes X 6 sessions= $12,000.	At least 70% students pass in post assessment	By record	CSC
School-based assessment (SBA)	- lessen teachers’ workload so that they can provide a more thorough follow-up of SBA groups (S4)	To employ a teacher-assistant to help with after school group consultation with S4 students	Relieving teachers’ load in preparing students for SBA	From Mar-July	Record form, video	All groups have met the advisors according to the assigned time.	By record	CSC
Remedial teaching	- help weak students to get a more solid foundation in English (S1)	select some weak students from S1 to attend remedial class	Relieving teachers’ load in preparing a wide range of materials to suit students with different abilities	From Mar-July	Supplementary exercises	80% of the selected students can complete the assigned work and show improvement in the pro-test	Final exam result	S1 coordinator
Self-access materials	- provide self-access materials for students to use in their free time, especially for (S3-4)	Teacher assistant to prepare a set of self-access materials, including vocab list and conversation charts for English Corner.	Relieve teachers’ load in supervising weak students after school	From Mar-July		Vocab list for S1-3 will be accomplished according to the modules taught. 20 sets of conversation charts will be ready.	Self-access materials	CSC
Speech Training	Increase students’ confidence to speak in English and arouse their interest in Language Arts (selected group of students & English club members)	Buy service from “Eduart Ltd”	Relieve teachers’ load in preparing the materials and training the students to speak	From April-June		A small performance should be done in June	Teachers’ observation	CSC

Budget: 1) About $10,000. per month for one Teacher Assistant

2) “Eduart Ltd” service: $100 per student per session (1.5 hrs X 5 sessions for 20 students)= $10,000.