Ms Nancy Chan received her Master of Education (English Language for Teaching) from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2007. For the past few years, Ms Chan has been leading her colleagues to participate in the partnership and exchange projects with the HKSAR Education Bureau and overseas schools in developing a school-based English language curriculum in KS2. The curriculum, with unique elements of fun and diversity, aims to cater for learner diversity and provide appropriate challenge for students with different talents, interests and learning styles.

Mr Patrick Tseng graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been the Gifted Education Coordinator in his school for more than 5 years. Mr Tseng has incorporated the elements of science education in English language teaching. He believes that students' learning outcome depends on whether those classroom learning tasks are meaningful and challenging. Beside, flexibility in teaching methods is crucial in differentiated instruction, which helps enhance every student’s engagement in learning.

The differences among students' learning not only rest on their abilities, but also interests, motivation and learning styles. How to let different students cheerfully engage in learning of English language and have opportunity to shine? The two speakers will share how to design units and apply differentiated strategies for regular English lessons to make the learning of argumentative essays interesting and to stimulate students’ curiosity and use interactive electronic resources to facilitate concept building, autonomous learning and nurturing of multiple intelligence.

Mr. CHEUNG Tin-hoo received a Bachelor Degree in Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from HKIEd in 2007 and 2012 respectively. Miss MA Shuk-man received a Bachelor Degree in Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). Since 2013, both of them have focused on the enhancement of General Studies curriculum, and are committed to the further development of school-based gifted education so as to enhance teaching strategies in whole-class instruction. They also coached students to participate in science competitions and won the Judge Award and the Excellence Award in the Innovations in Science and Environmental Studies in 2014.

The two presenters from Queen Elizabeth School Old Students' Association Primary School will share their experience in teaching higher-order thinking skills, creativity, and personal and social competence with whole class instruction. They would also introduce the application of tiered questioning, tiered assignments and flexible grouping in guiding students to think in different perspectives and think further. Their classroom teaching not only provides more room and better challenges for the more able students to shine but also provides stronger scaffoldings for the less able to build a better foundation of learning, thus achieving the aim to cater for learner diversity. Such initiative is adopted in Primary 5 General Studies of their school and is viewed as an entry point for further development in different KLAs' teaching.