The Summer School for Physical Education Teachers 2008, featuring the theme "Nurturing Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills" was initiated by the Education Bureau and organized by the PE Division, Department of Creative Arts and Physical Education, the Hong Kong Institute of Education. It is an annual professional development programme focusing on sharing innovative curricular practices, pedagogy and assessment for promoting creativity and critical thinking through PE.

Theme and Aims

Local PE in schools has gone through a rapid development in the past twenty years. The subject has been included as one of the examination subjects in the HKCE in 1989. In 1990, the government gave a mandate to schools to assign only qualified P.E. teachers to teach the subject. Furthermore, it has been identified as one of the key learning areas in the current education reform (Education Commission, 1999; 2000). Accordingly, schools are recommended to allot at least 5 percent of the curriculum time to the subject. Recently, it has been suggested as other essential learning experience in the forms of general PE in the senior secondary school curriculum. PE becomes one of the electives for public examination in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (CDC, 2007). All these signify considerable professional and academic advancement of the subject in the school curriculum, and require PE teachers to extend and enrich their professional knowledge and capabilities.

The local educational reform addresses the goals of education in terms of “learning to learn” and “all round development” and the role of teachers as being facilitators rather than knowledge providers (Education Commission, 1999; 2000). As the key players in the reform movements, teachers have to be reflective and innovative in their teaching. They have to enquire new professional knowledge in order to facilitate their teaching and learning. They have to incorporate new methods of instruction and to introduce new approaches for promoting student-centred learning and providing students with the five essential learning experiences as well as strengthening the cultivation of their positive values and attitudes. Besides, nurturing students’ generic skills, especially creativity, critical thinking and communication, are strongly recommended as important learning-to-learn skills for all key learning areas aiming at promoting their life-long learning capability.

However, how “creativity” and “critical thinking” can be implanted in the PE curriculum is still a main concern of most of the PE teachers. Thus, the Summer School for PE Teachers 2008 chose the captioned theme and aimed at nurturing PE teachers with knowledge and skills of cultivating students’ creativity and critical thinking. Each year, the summer school attracts about 500 participants and it surely can provide opportunities and platforms for establishing a learning community and nurturing a knowledge-based sharing culture among Hong Kong PE teachers. The major objectives of the Summer School for PE Teachers 2008 are formulated as follows:

The programmes of professional development include:

1. Conference

2. Experience Sharing Seminars

3. Workshops

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「體育教師暑期學校2008」是由教育局為本地體育教師籌劃的一項具主題的週年專業培訓計劃，2008年度再一次由香港教育學院體藝學系體育部成功申獲協辦，主題為「創造力與批判性思考能力的培養」，目的是向體育教師推介一些有效而具創意的體育課程，提供分享平台，讓他們共同分享及研究有關如何善用創新教學內容、教學法和評估等，以促進學生的創造力及批判思考能力之課題。

主題及目標

在過去的二十多年來，本地之體育經歷了迅速發展及變革；自一九八九年起，體育科成為中學會考科目之一，政府亦於一九九零年規定學校只可聘用具備體育相關專業資歷的教師任教體育科，它亦於近期的教育改革中被介定為八個主要學習領域之一（教育委員會1999;2000），學校亦因而相應地編配總課程時數的百份之五為體育上課時數，此外，即將推行的新高中課程更把體育列為其他主要學習經歷之一及「香港中學文憑考試」的選修科目（課程發展會2007）。從上述顯証中，確認了體育的專業及學術發展的重要性，亦道出了為體育教師提供及推展持續專業發展的迫切需要。

教育改革倡議着「全人發展」及「學會學習」，而教師的主要角色亦由知識傳遞者轉為促進者（教育委員會1999;2000）。教師既然在教育改革中擔負着重要的使命，他們必需為提供優質教學而作出反思及革新，需與時並進地追求新的專科知識及引進新的教學法，才可促進以學生為中心的學習，提供學生們多元化的學習經歷及培育他們正確的價值觀及態度。此外，培育學生的九種共同能力，特別是創造力、批判性思考和溝通能力等，更是學生學會學習及發展終身學習的重要竅門及技能。

可是，「如何把『創造力』及『批判性思考能力』有效地滲入體育課程內」仍是不少體育老師關注的問題。有鑑於此，體育教師暑期學校2008是選取了有關的課題，為本港的體育教師提供了專業進修機會及交流平台，讓大家能聚首一堂，共同分享及研究，從而建立具專業知識的分享文化及平台。體育教師暑期學校2008的目標如下：

• 讓體育教師對體育科的最新發展有更深入的認識，特別是創造力和批判性思考能力的培養；
• 分享及展示體育老師的教學經驗，特別是如何透過體育教學培養學生之創造力和批判性思考能力；及
• 促進體育教師對有關課題的專業知識及技能，從而有效地培育學生之創造力和批判性思考能力。

「體育教師暑期學校2008 」包括以下專業發展活動 :

1. 專題講座

2. 校本經驗分享研討會

3. 教學工作坊

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References 參考文獻:

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