{"id":14308,"date":"2022-02-25T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlcre.usj.edu.mo\/?post_type=project&#038;p=14308"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T09:09:40","slug":"gegclear","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/dlcre.usj.edu.mo\/en\/research\/projects\/gegclear\/","title":{"rendered":"GEG Chinese Literacy Education And Research (CLEAR) Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To promote early literacy research and development in Macau, Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Foundation started funding the \u201cGEG Chinese Literacy Development Scheme\u201d which began as a three-year pilot project in 2016. Having established partnership and collaborating with the University of Saint Joseph\u2019s Bishop Domingos Lam Centre for Research in Education (DLCRE), the Scheme began its second phase in 2019 and extended as the \u201cGEG Chinese Literacy Education And Research (CLEAR) Project\u201d. The long-term goals of this Project are to construct a research evidence-based early literacy education model and support programs, these include offering professional development for teachers, developing small support groups for students, and organizing seminars in language and literacy acquisition for parents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Six kindergartens in Macau, namely, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima Chinese Section, Macau Baptist College, Our Lady of Fatima Girls\u2019 School, The Workers\u2019 Children High School Macau, Fu Luen School and Escola Dom Jo\u00e3o Paulino, have joined the CLEAR Project in various modes thus far. For instance, establishing support programs in school, attending teacher training and\/or conducting parent seminars. The project team is led by academics from Hong Kong and Macau to offer professional instruction and support to collaborating schools. Professor Cheng Pui Wan is the Principal Investigator to the Project.\u00a0 Professor Cheng is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Miranda Chi Kuan Mak is the Co-Principal Investigator to the Project. Professor Mak is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education at the University of Saint Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two main pillars of the CLEAR Project are \u201cResearch and Development\u201d and \u201cEducation and Training\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0A. <\/strong><strong>Research and Development<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conduct research relevant to early language and literacy acquisition in response to educational needs and social changes.<\/li>\n<li>Develop program-based assessment tools (including screening test, pre-post measures on key indicators of preschool literacy skills, and progress monitoring measures) to identify students with needs for literacy support and review the effectiveness of the support groups in order to assist schools to establish a regular literacy support policy and system.<\/li>\n<li>Design and compile school-based support-group curriculum, offer supplemental programs with three levels for K2 and K3 students, and assist teachers to handle students\u2019 individual differences.<\/li>\n<li>Launch a support-group program teaching kit for teachers\u2019 use, including a teacher\u2019s manual, a series of supplementary teaching materials (e.g., vocabulary cards, character cards, picture cards, character structure card, nursery rhymes, etc.), recommended lesson plans and teaching strategies, and online resources.<\/li>\n<li>Produce a series of basal readers with vocabularies and syntactic features suitable for young readers in Macau and Hong Kong with suggestions for the series to be used in the regular classroom, small-group settings or for parent-child share reading, thereby creating an environment conducive to reading, enhance language skills, and cultivate reading interest and habit in young children.<\/li>\n<li>Publish a guidebook for children\u2019s picture books to assist parents in their selection of high-quality picture books and offer guidance to parents in parent-child shared reading strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>B. <\/strong><strong>Education and Training<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer a series of teacher training courses in three tiers, including Basic Training for all kindergarten teachers, Advanced Training for teachers of the collaborating schools, and Expert Training for school leaders of the collaborating schools.<\/li>\n<li>Offer a series of parent seminars with topics on Language Enhancement, Reading Enrichment, and Literacy Acquisition.<\/li>\n<li>Promote the Project to the community and the public, maintain a social media platform, produce educational videos, enhance the public\u2019s knowledge of young children\u2019s language and literacy development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote early literacy research and development in Macau, Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Foundation started funding the \u201cGEG Chinese Literacy Development Scheme\u201d which began as a three-year pilot project in 2016. 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