(Since 2000; last update: 2012-2-16)
2012-2-18
Workshop 1 for teachers on the Core Teachers Scheme: “Teaching Towards Basic Academic Attainments”; organised by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Macao.
2012-2-11
Talk for Primary English teachers in Macao: ‘Reflecting on Current English Language Teaching and Learning.” Organised by the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, MACAO SAR Government, for the Core Teachers Scheme in support of Macao’s Curriculum Reform.
2012-2-11
Talk for primary English teachers: “A value-based approach to English Language teaching.” Organised by OUP(China).
2012-2-4
Talk with Dr Benjamin Au Yeung: “中英教室，無處不在”. Organised by OUP(China).
2012-1-4
Staff development workshop for the English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School: “How to design a reading comprehension unit.”
2011-12-2
Talk for parents: “Becoming excellent readers and writers in a second language: The need for skills and strategies”. Organised by OUP(China)
2011-11-19
Featured, along with other former recipients of the CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award, in the DVD “Capturing the Experience of Excellent Teachers at CUHK”, produced by the CUHK Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research.
2011-11-16
Staff development workshop for the English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School: “Developing students’ reading skills and strategies”.
2011-10-19
Staff development workshop for the English Department, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memoral School: “From phonics to reading”
2011/8/2
Guest speaker, “When English meets Chinese”; with Dr Benjamin Au Yeung, “Free as the Wind”, RTHK Talk Show.
2011/7/20
Conducted a workshop, with, Ms Olive Cheung, on digital storytelling for secondary school English teachers. An event under the ELITE Knowledge Transfer project headed by Professor Icy Lee.
2011/6/25
Seminar for parents: “Teaching of Reading and Writing to Young Learners”; organized by OUP(China).
2011/6/21
Speaker at a seminar for secondary teachers: “Becoming an Excellent Teacher of Reading and Writing”; a professional development under the ELiTE project headed by Professor Icy Lee.
2011/6/11
Seminar for parents: “Phonics learning: Why? Why? How?; organized by OUP (China).
2011/6/1
Staff development workshop for English Dept, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial School: Reading aloud.
2011/5/26
Staff development workshop for English Dept, Buddhist Lam Bing Yim Memorial school: “Word stress for phonics instruction.”
2011/5/12-13
Sze, Paul (2011). Developing ESL learners’ speaking writing and skills through digital storytelling. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on ICT in Education, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (May 12-13, 2011)
2011/4/27
Staff development workshop for English Dept: “English phonemes for phonics instruction.”
2011/3/19
TESOL Intersection presentation: “Helping non-native English speakers teaching speaking and pronunciation”; with Tracey Derwing, Patricia Pashby, Katya Nemtchinova, and Keli Yerian; the 45th TESOL Convention (March 17-19, 2011; New Orleans, USA).
2010/12/4
Sze, Paul (2010). Catering for affect in affect in language learning through digital storytelling. Paper presented at the 4th CLS International Conference: Individual Characteristics and Subjective Variables in Language Learning, Singapore, 2-4 December 2010.
2010/10/22
Presentation with Olive Cheung of ELTU at the CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2010: Promoting creativity and reflection through digital storytelling.
2010/8/28
Seminar for parents: “Synthetic phonics: Why”; organized by OUP (China).
2010/7/16
Workshop: “eLearning Pedagogies for the English Language Curriculum”; an event of the Learning and Teaching Expo 2010; organized by HKEdCity.
2010/6/26
Departmental subject seminar: “Promoting Collaborative eLearning in the Primary English curriculum through Web 2.0 activities” (with Ms Janet Law, Ms Clare Wong, Ms Peggy Yau, Ms Bess Wong); June 26, 2010; organized by the Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK.
2010/6/11
Sze, Paul. (2010). Digital storytelling for teachers’ professional development. Paper presented at the 2010 Euro-American Conference for Academic Disciplines, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 8-11, 2010.
2010/5/18
Conducted last session of Learning Circle for English Language Teaching (2009-2010), organized by Tuen Mun Regional Education Office; Topic: Towards becoming a skilled teacher in questioning techniques.
2010/5/11
Sze, Paul. (2010). Preparing ESL teachers for using digital storytelling in English Language teaching. Paper presented at the 8th Malaysia International Conference on English Language Teaching, May 11-13, 2010; Melaka, Malaysia.
2010/4/26
Presentation: Video-recorded panel discussion by former recipients of VC’s Exemplary Teaching Award on teaching, organized by CLEAR for the production of a experience sharing DVD for distribution among CUHK’s teaching staff.
2010/3/4
Presented two symposia at CITE Research Symposium 2010, University of Hong Kong, March 3, 2010:
(1) Personalising English language teaching in secondary schools through technology (with Jenny Yeung and Armstrong Wong)
(2) Wikis and blogs for collaborative English language learning activities for primary school students (with Peggy Yau, Bess Wong, and Clare Wong)
2010/2/27
Sze, Paul. (2010). Synthetic phonics for EFL learners? Paper presented at the 6th Annual CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching , 27-28 February 2010, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
2010/2/2
Workshop on peer lesson observation, for Learning Circle, EDB Tuen Mun Regional Office.
2010/1/15
Workshop on Classroom Language, for Learning Circle, organised by EDB Tuen Mun Regional Office.
2009/11/5
Departmental lunch time seminar (with Dr Law Huk Yuen, and Prof Yeung Sau Chu): “Storytelling as Pedagogy?”
2009/10/23
Presented a poster, titled “Spice up your teaching with digital stories”, at the CUHK Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo 2009.
2009/10/21
Conducted a workshop on digital storytelling for the English Department, Sacred Heart Canossian School, Oct 21, 2009.
2009/8/19
Invited Presentation: Approaches to teaching phonics to young learners in Hong Kong; August 29, 2009; Seminar for parents organized by Oxford University Press.
2009/6/22
Sze Paul. (2009). Video for peer observation: Prospects and problems; Poster presented at the 21st World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (June 22-26, 2009).
2009/6/1-4
Sze, Paul (2009). Effectiveness of synthetic phonics for schoolchildren in Hong Kong: An exploratory study”. Paper presented at the European Conference for Academic Disciplines, Salzburg (June 1-4, 2009)
2009/4/25
ELT Seminar for primary and KG principals and teachers: “Phonics teaching in Hong Kong and the prospects of synthetic phonics”; Seminar organised by OUP (China), held in Royal Plaza Hotel.
2008/12/4-6
Sze, Paul. (2008). Hong Kong students’ awareness of Cantonised pronunciation of English. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on English in Southeast Asia: Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World; Singapore, December 4-6, 2008.
2008/10/17
Poster presentation at EXPO: Excellence Online 2008: “Wikis for Professional Sharing”; Organised by CLEAR and ITSC of CUHK; 17/10/2008.
2008/5/16
Speaker, Principals’ Workshop: “Enhancing the quality of learning and teaching of English: from the Primary NET Scheme perspective”; organized by the NET Section, CDI, EDB. Attendance: 49 primary school heads.
2008/5/14
Seminar for S.4 students atCCCMongManWaiCollege: “Fan kill you: Funny mispronunciations inHong Kong”; organized by the English Department of the school; Attendance: all five S4 classes and some S5 students.
2008/4/22
Staff development workshop on phonics for the English department, Ying Wa Primary School: “A for Apple, and for Bad Man”; organized by the English Department of the school. Attendance: all teachers of the school’s English department and PSMCD.
2008/3/18
Staff development workshop on teaching phonics at lower secondary level for the English Department,CaritasChongYuetMingSecondary School; organized by the SMILE Project of the Faculty of Education, CUHK. Attendance: all teachers of the school’s English Department.
2008/2/23
Presented a paper at the 4th CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching;Phnom Penh,Cambodia; title of paper: ‘Teaching phonics through awareness raising activities’.
2008/1/30
Whole-day workshop on effective lesson observation for English panel heads and APSM(CD)s at Government Primary Schools. Workshop organized by EDB’s Government Primary Schools Section.
2007/10/10
Workshop on phonics for lower secondary students, for English department atCaritasMardenFoundationSecondary School, Chai Wan. Workshop organized by SMILE Project, CUHK.
2007/5/26
Seminar for English Language teachers: “Common mispronunciations inHong Kongand how to help students avoid them”; organized by Hong Kong Institute of Education Research, CUHK.
2007/5/17
Conducted a workshop on “Developing students’ listening and speaking skills through ELT podcasts” for secondary English teachers. The seminar was organized by the EMB NET section.
2007/4/19
Invited Commentator, Sharing Session on Teaching and Learning of English Language for Teachers in Government Primary Schools; organized by EMB Government Schools Section.
2007/3/9
Talk: “Fun with Radio Drama”, Weekly Assembly,MethodistCollege.
2007/3/2
Presented a paper at the IT in Education Symposium 2007, organised by HKU
2006/12/16
Seminar on “Experiences in using Wikis for online collaborative writing”, with Dr Barley Mak & Ms Pauline Lee ofShatinPuiYingCollege; at CUHK. Seminar co-organised by the WrITE Project and KSC Project.
2006/12/6
Presented a paper at ClaSIC 2006,Singapore: “An online peer observation platform for English language teachers inHong Kong”.
2006/12/2
Invited speaker (with Prof Shiu Ling-po), RTHK Radio 1 “Smart Parents”, topic:The teaching and learning of phonics
2006/10/27
Conducted a staff development workshop on scoring rubrics for English Language teachers at Buddhist Ching Kok Secondary School; in collaboration with the Write Project and for the school’s QEF project “ Assessment for Learning: eAssessment Builder”.
2006/7/8
Conducted a workshop with Mr Pun Wai Wing on podcasting and radio drama for English Language and IT teachers; organized by Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK.
2006/6/23 “My research experience”: Presentation atUniversityofLancasterfor a video resource for the UK HEFCE Project “Virtual Resources for Online Research Training”.
2006/4/22
“Using ELT podcasts in English Language teaching”; a seminar for English Language teachers; organized by Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, CUHK
2006/2/18 Sharing at Award Presentation Ceremony for Faculty Dean’s List cum Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2005
2006/1/14 “New directions in the teaching of reading in the primary school”: Talk for parents atCUHKPSAThomasCheungPrimary School.
2005/11/9 Departmental lunch talk on “Using video clips as triggers for teachers’ online discussion”, with Professor Dave Coniam, and Dr Eunice Tang.
2005/9/17 “Recent developments in primary English teaching: “ Talk for parents atMrsFungPingShanLeeWingCheungPrimary School
2004/7/7 Speech in the capacity of guest of honour, Prize-giving ceremony,ThomasCheungPrimary School.
2004/1/26 Departmental lunch time Talk, Dept of Curriculum and Instruction, “What can we learn fromPISA about our students’ literary in Chinese?”; with Professors Esther Ho and Cecilia Chun.
2002/9/14 Talk for parents on helping children with their English learning, atWongYiuNamPrimary School
2002/8/13 Talk on vocabulary enrichment techniques for S.6 students fromNewMethodCollege.
2001/02 Departmental lunch seminar with ProfessorsEvelyn Man andWong Ngai Ying on “How should we improve the level of TP supervision”
2000/12/15 Speaker, P.1 Parents’ Day,Wong Yiu Nam Primary School
