CTS1924
HKD 3,750
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the program, students are able to:
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Recognize and identify how expectations are generated, contributing factors and influences
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Develop deeper understanding and trust of self-competency
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Acquire skills to enhance awareness and generate mindful energy to tackle future challenges
Course Outline
Students are supported to explore and delineate how expectations motivate or distress them in terms of learning, social interaction and personal / career development.
When students are able to articulate their own situation, with reflective mind and the practice of mindfulness, they can embrace their feelings and vulnerabilities with enhanced awareness. Students are empowered to be the change agent instead of being prisoned by expectations. Mindfulness practices acquired can apply in various daily situations that support the continuous and whole-person development of gifted students.
Target Participants / Prerequisite
For students completed S1-S3 and are interested in knowing more about expectations
Course Instructor
Ms. Jo NG
Ms. Jo Ng a developmental consultant, a teacher and a registered social worker. She received a master's degree in Special Education with Gifted Education Concentration from the University of British Columbia. She has been working in local and international schools. She also worked at the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education as a professional development officer in the Teacher Professional Development Division for 3 years.
Currently Jo provides consultation service related to special educational needs in local primary schools. She has also been an instructor in the Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education (CAISE) at the University of Hong Kong since 2015, and served as the Academic Advisor of Hong Kong Gifted Education Teachers’ Association.
Jo is keen to support the growth and well-being of children, adolescents, parents and educators through providing case consultation, developmental groups and professional development training. She has been practicing mindfulness under the tradition of Plum Village since 2013 and completed the one-year Mindfulness Teachers Training Program by The Mindfulness Academy in 2015. She has initiated a quarterly Day of Mindfulness for Children with Plum Village monastics and HKU CAISE since March 2016.
Her aspiration is to cultivate joy and happiness in children, family, schools and the society.
Medium of Instruction
Cantonese
課程宗旨
完成此課程後，學生能夠：
· 認識及分析如何期望的形成，其促成因素和影響
· 加深對自我能力的理解和信任
· 提高專注力應對未來的挑戰
課程大綱
此課程鼓勵學生探索在學習，社交互動和個人/職業發展方面，期望如何激勵或為他們帶來困擾。通過反思性思維和正念練習，學生可以提高自我意識，從而接受自己的感受和脆弱。學生有權作出改變，而不是被期望所囚禁。正念練習可以應用於各種日常情況，支持資優學生持續性的全人發展。
目標對象／參加條件
中一至中三學生
課程導師
吳文潔女士
吳文潔是香港大學教育學院融合與特殊教育研究發展中心的總監 (課程發展)，2015年加入並擔任課程導師。她是教師和註冊社工，於2010年在加拿大卑詩大學獲頒特殊教育碩士學位，主修資優教育。曾任職本地及國際學校，現為香港資優教育教師協會學術顧問。
吳女士以個案諮商、成長小組、專業發展培訓及公開講座，推廣及支援孩子、青年、父母及教育工作者的成長與身心幸福。她自2013年起參與梅村的正念修習，2015年修畢為期一年的「正念導師培訓課程」(由Plum Village Mindfulness Academy舉辦)。吳女士於2016年3月起協助開辦季度兒童正念日，與梅村僧侶及香港大學教育學院融合與特殊教育研究發展中心共同推行。
她的願景是在孩子、家庭、學校及社區中耕種喜悅、幸福的種子。
授課語言
廣東話