CCE organized five professional courses for teaching staff from November to December for the Education and Youth Development Bureau. These five courses, which were “Enhancing Young Children’s Thinking in Teaching and Learning”, “Improving Children’s Motivational Persistence in Learning”, “Educational Innovation in Design Thinking: Flipping Traditional Teaching to Creative Teaching in Game Design”, “Core Competency-Oriented Integrated Subject Teaching” and “Strategy in Personalized Teaching in Secondary Mathematics Classroom”, were designed to improve the teaching quality of teaching staff and promote their professional development. Total number of participants was 120, and they are teaching staff from kindergarten, primary and secondary schools in Macao.

Courses were described below:

1. “Enhancing Young Children’s Thinking in Teaching and Learning”: This course focused on children’s thinking development which help participants to master effective teaching strategies and design teaching activities.

2. “Improving Children’s Motivational Persistence in Learning”: Through case sharing, participants had deep understandings of the psychological principles on children’s independent learning, concentration and endurance.

3. “Educational Innovation in Design Thinking: Flipping Traditional Teaching to Creative Teaching in Game Design”: This course emphasized the integration of creative elements into teaching design and helped participants grasping the principles and effectiveness of different methods so as to design teaching games flexibly.

4. “Core Competency-Oriented Integrated Subject Teaching”: This course explored the theoretical basis, advantages and challenges of integrated subject teaching, as well as demonstrated how to cultivate core competencies through case sharing.

5. “Strategy in Personalized Teaching in Secondary Mathematics Classroom”: This course outlined the definition and importance of personalized teaching and allowed participants to understand how to design and implement personalized teaching, especially in the application of multimedia technology.

The five courses have been completed successfully with great recognition and positive feedbacks were received from the participants.

CCE continues to provide training courses for Education and Youth Development Bureau to promote the sustainable development of teaching staff.