Three English language teachers have been awarded scholarships to attend a two-week course in Britain next month to learn new information technology (IT) skills for classroom teaching.
The scholarships were awarded by the British Council. The recipients were selected from among some 700 teachers who attended Interface 99, a conference organised in April by the council to provide English teachers with hands-on experience in using the Internet in classroom teaching.
The scholarships cover tuition, accommodation and return air tickets to Britain.
Joan Holdefer from Diocesan Girls' Junior School and Verna Tan Kok-khim from Tack Ching Girls' Middle School will attend Pilgrims Teaching Training Courses in Canterbury. Meimei Chan Shin-kwan from St Clare's Girls' School will go to the Bell Teacher Training Institute near Cambridge.
Ms Holdefer will take a course on methodology and language for primary teaching. Having taught for seven years, she said she was looking forward to learning new ways of teaching.
'Nowadays, children will not listen to you if you only ask them to sit still and pay full attention in class,' she said.