Where the Department is heading, from the Head
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Faculty of Education and Human Development
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Curriculum design, assessment, teacher development and school improvement — studied where teaching actually happens.
Study with the Department
Inside the Department
Programmes & Curriculum
Degrees and short courses for teachers at every stage
Find your area of practice
Area of practice
Curriculum Design
Curriculum Design
What is taught, in what order, and how a syllabus becomes a year of lessons.
Area of practice
Assessment & Feedback
Assessment & Feedback
How we know learning happened — and how marking changes what pupils do next.
Area of practice
Teacher Development
Teacher Development
Mentoring, lesson study and the first years that decide whether teachers stay.
Area of practice
School Improvement
School Improvement
Whole-school change: working alongside leadership teams, not from a distance.
Message from the Head
Curriculum and Instruction brings together colleagues from every subject taught in Hong Kong schools. What holds the Department together is a habit: we test ideas in real classrooms, with the teachers who will use them.
“We help staff and students explore new horizons and realise their full potential.”
Head of DepartmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instruction
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The Department in numbers
4areas of practice, each with its own teaching and research
4levels of study, from undergraduate degrees to professional development
5departments in the Faculty, together on the Tai Po campus
3languages on this website: English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
Study with the Department
Sub-degree to doctoral study, full-time and part-time. Each level leads somewhere specific, and most taught programmes are built to fit around a school timetable.
Professional development
Short courses and school-based support for serving teachers
From the Department
Seminar: lesson study in Hong Kong classrooms
C&I teaching team receives a Faculty teaching commendation
Public lecture: assessment futures
C&I Open Day — meet the department
C&I students share lesson-study projects with partner schools
What's on this term
Open Day — Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Tai Po campus · drop-in
Public Lecture — Assessment Futures
Tai Po campus
Seminar — Lesson Study in Hong Kong Classrooms
Tai Po campus
C&I Seminar Series 2027 — two days inside the labs
Tai Po campus · registration opens in January
Meet our people
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Watch a lesson being made
Lesson study, start to finish — a full cycle in one primary school
Panopto
Why we teach assessment before we teach marking
YouTube
Chinese Language curriculum design — from calligraphy to writing
BiliBili
Who we work with
Curriculum development
Professional development
World Association of Lesson Studies
Project funding
Schools that host our student teachers
