EL Opportunities Arranged by outside Organisations / Resources for Self-nominated Projects

for every child, #EatPlayLove (細路愛玩營) by UNICEF HK

(updated on March 5, 2018)

UNICEF HK is inviting volunteers to support their ‘for every child, #EatPlayLove’ community engagement event. Please visit https://www.unicef.org.hk/eatplaylove/ for more details of the event.

Interested students please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdk6-5NG5naFeeRrTq9oH9rQ-e5ncaSuLUKn1XawrBsbCkgLA/viewform?entry.2095025123&entry.1360041940&entry.1618616210&entry.699810624&entry.51077464&entry.71780538&entry.444991329&entry.1304820729 by March 12, 2018.

Internship at Ohmykids

(updated on 22 February 2018)

Ohmykids was founded by people who strongly believe in children’s abilities. Partnering with various companies and organizations, they provide fun-filled, inspiring learning experiences that motivate children to be independent. They believe our kids perform best when they take the initiative, and that is how they do things in Ohmykids. They make kids in charge of their own actions. They serve as a bridge between an audience who share they belief and corporate clients who support their work.

Interns are expected to:

• Prepare creative and meaningful events;
• Promote and execute events;
• Have knowledge in design; and
• Be a proactive learner in achieving your job.

What will be provided:

• Flexible working hours, happy working environment and rapid growth
• Transportation and meal allowance

More information about Ohmykids: work.ohmykids.org and www.ohmykids.org. If you are interested in the internship, please contact Helen via email (lohoi@ohmykids.org).

[PGDE(Part-time) students who wish to work with Ohmykids as your EL, you are required to submit your self-nominated project proposal to the EL team by March 31, 2018.]

Horizons Mingde - Summer Project in Guangxi

(updated on 13 February 2018)

Horizons Project Mingde is a university-wide “to-build-and-to-serve” experiential learning programme – built on Project Mingde initiated by the Department of Civil Engineering – that mobilizes teachers and student from all 10 Faculties to apply their disciplinary knowledge and skills to improve impoverished communities on the Mainland. They are now inviting students to join their trip to Guangxi in June 2018.

Participants are expected to work with ‘left-behind’ children whose parents are working in other cities while they are usually being taken care of by their grandparents. The children only start learning English from P.5 while the demand for English education in getting higher. The exact project dates will be decided according to the schedule of Horizons Project Mingde.

[PGDE(Part-time) students who wish to join the project as your EL, you are required to design and deliver your own English programme for the students in Guangxi.]

For application, please contact Ms. Anila Ma (anilama@hku.hk) by March 31, 2018.

Docent Recruitment @ Fringe Club

(updated on 18 January 2018)

Fringe Club is inviting university students, educators and people who have docent experience or are keen on arts, culture, heritage or architecture to be their Fringe Docents. Please refer to https://www.jcchlp.com/join-us for more details. Students who are interested please apply at Docent Recruitment: https://goo.gl/kRVJmB no later than 24 January 2018.

Sharing from Ms. May Chan, a PGDE(Part-time) Chinese major student who joined the programme in 2017:

「我學習到不少引入故事的方法。我也會反思在自己的教學上是否也有好多不同的可能性呢?不一定是傳統你教我聽的模式，而是引起學生的興趣去推動他們更自主地學習。能夠從自己認識建築物到帶團，讓公眾人士認識，再把藝穗會的故事帶回學校讓自己學生認識，讓欣賞建築物和認識歷史的種子種在學生心裏，實在是參加這個計劃的一大得着。總括而言，參加這個計劃讓我在自己的教學方式中得到一些反思，亦學會導賞技巧，反思作為老師也需要持續豐富自己的視野、人生，把更多的美好的種子種到學生心裏。」

AMLBD & Exhibition Day at Jockey Club “Learning by Doing” Academy (LBD)

(updated on 13 December 2017)

Jockey Club ‘Learning by Doing’ Academy (LBD) is a programme conceived amidst society’s yearning for less exam-oriented and more authentic learning for the diverse needs of our children. Proposed by education charity – EDiversity in conjunction with the Mission Covenant Church Holm Glad No. 2 Primary School, LBD is a 3-year programme supported by the Jockey Club Charities Trust, and is the first such collaboration to bring learning by doing into a local school’s afternoon curriculum.

LBD is now looking for passionate interns who put children’s diverse needs on top of their education values to join their team. The volunteering experience would be a very different experience compared with normal teaching practice.

1. AMLBD (January 2 – 5, 2018: 8am – 2pm)

LBD sessions are usually conducted in the afternoon, but in the first week of January, they are conducted in the morning so that teachers can have more time to enrich and discover new contents of their LBD lessons. Teachers are divided into 18 groups, each group conducts LBD sessions independently with the following planned activities:

P1: Visit Kadoorie Farm and discover empathy by knowing more about the characteristics of animals

P2: Make balloon cars, visit science museum and design a racing competition

P3: Cooking

P4: Camping

P5: Hiking, picnic and play soci game

P6: Visit elderly people living in nearby community

Volunteers are warmly welcomed to assist in everyday classes and help with the preparation work.

2. Exhibition Day (January 6, 2018: 9am-12nn (preparation time) & 1pm-5pm (exhibition time))

After experiencing several sessions of AMLBD, teachers together with students will curate an exhibition in school so as to display their works and show what they have achieved during AMLBD.Tentative ways of display: PowerPoint presentation, on-site booth, cars competition, foam boards display……

An orientation & teachers training will be held on December 19, 2017 (2pm – 5pm). If you are interested in joining the project, please register at http://moodle.hku.hk/course/view.php?id=50131 (self-enrolment code: explearn) and upload your CV to http://moodle.hku.hk/mod/assign/view.php?id=1143548 by December 15, 5pm.

Feeding Hong Kong Winter Internship - Project Coordinator

(updated on 10 November 2017)

Feeding Hong Kong is a Hong Kong registered charity with a mission to fight hunger in the city and reduce the amount of quality food being sent to our landfills. Each day, they collect high quality food that would otherwise be thrown away, sort and store it, and then redistribute it to a network of welfare organisations, who in turn feed thousands of people in need.

They are currently looking for an enthusiastic, detail-orientated and multi-tasked intern to support their Festive Food Parcel campaign during the winter semester break. For more information, please read

They are recruiting interns to support their daily operations. For more information, please read https://el.edu.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/10/Project-Coordinator-Winter-Intern-2017.docx. For students are who interested in the programme, please send your cover letter and CV to Ms. Mandy Ma (mma@feedinghk.org) by November 24, 2017 (please indicate the position in the email subject).

For enquiries, please contact Ms. Mandy Ma (mma@feedinghk.org).

Ghana Health & Education Initiative (GHEI) - Summer Serve and Learn Volunteer Programs 2018

(updated on 7 November 2017)

GHEI Summer Serve and Learn volunteer programs offer participants the chance to be immersed in a rural Ghanaian community and work alongside local staff members in support of a small community development organization’s year-round health and education programs. All volunteers will have the opportunity to develop and strengthen their skills in cross-cultural communication, project design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and community outreach, all while working in a low-resource environment alongside local and international counterparts to achieve a common goal. Please visit GHEI’s website (www.ghei.org/ssl) to learn more about the programs.

Internship at Jockey Club ‘Learning by Doing’ Academy

(updated on 14 March 2017)

Jockey Club ‘Learning by Doing’ Academy (LBD) is a programme conceived amidst society’s yearning for less exam-orientated and more authentic learning for the diverse needs of our children. Proposed by education charity-EDiversity in conjunction with the Mission Covenant Church Holm Glad No. 2 Primary School, LBD is a 3-year programme supported by the Jockey Club Charities Trust, and is the first such collaboration to bring learning by doing into a local school’s afternoon curriculum. Please read  https://el.edu.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/10/Internship-at-Jockey-Club-‘Learning-by-Doing’-Academy1.pdf and the sharing below from a BABEd(LangEd)-ENG student who took part in voluntary teaching at Holm Glad last summer to learn more about the innovative education style of LBD. 

The weeks that I spent with Holmglad are the days that I shall never forget. It is hard to find a school that allows us, student-teachers, freedom to develop our own programmes. It is even harder to have a school with principal and teachers who genuinely encourage you to put your pedagogic ideas into practice. Challenging it is to start your plans from scratch, it is however equally fruitful how we experience putting these scattered thoughts into lessons, for the students. Holmglad, with its unique school structure with classes of p.1s and p.5s (in 2016), provides us with an opportunity to design courses and activities that students from both forms can enjoy and learn together. Never has it been an easy quest, but what more can you ask for when you see students willing to try and “unlocking” the missions?

LBD is now now looking for passionate interns who put children’s diverse needs on top of their education values to join their team. The internship would be a very different experience compared with normal teaching practice.

Internship opportunities

1. AMLBD

(June 19-30, 2017, preparatory meetings on March 23 and April 27)

2. Orientation

(late August 2017, around August 22-25)

3. Other regular tasks

(throughout the year, at least one day per week)

4. Occasional tasks in 2017-18 and 2018-19

(one-off events throughout the year)

You may refer to the attachment (https://el.edu.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/10/Internship-at-Jockey-Club-‘Learning-by-Doing’-Academy1.pdf) for details of the projects.

If you are interested in the above internships, please apply at https://goo.gl/forms/eu6gVvj0wJEs2XCy2. You can contact Ms. Wendy Wan (Email: wendy@ediversity.org / Tel: 6466 1103) for enquiries.

Service Civil International (SCI) Hong Kong

(updated on 23 November 2016)

Project (1): Self-nominated projects with SCI Hong Kong

Students are welcome to design their own projects with advice and support from SCI Hong Kong. Please contact Sam (sam@scichina.org.hk) or Pat (pat.huang@scichina.org.hk) for further discussion if you are interested in organising your own programme.

Project (2): International workcamps 

Project details and application: http://www.scichina.org.hk/

Jockey Club Neo Education Lab

(updated on 3 October 2016)

Project details: https://el.edu.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/10/NEO-x-HKU-2016-17.pdf

Students can nominate their own EL projects with Jockey Club Neo Education Lab. Please contact Dan or Anne (neo.edu.lab@gmail.com) for further discussion.

Shakespeare4All

(updated on 3 October 2016)

Students can nominate EL projects relating to drama performance with Shakespeare4All, one of Hong Kong’s leading performing arts education organisations. Please visit http://s4a.org.hk/en/home/index.php for more details about Shakespeare4All.