I have been telling this to our prospective students that the learning is equally important to be facilitated from the peer in the postgraduate studies. This week I experience this dynamics myself. After Dr. Lam introduces the current issue of SBM, she surveyed if any of our classmates were members in IMC. Two co-students volunteered to share their experience and perspectives which approach the critique of IMC from different view point. I learn as much from the peers as from the tutors.

This week has a lot of reading to catch up. In order to contribute to the discussion next week, I research into various consultation papers by education department and education commission. This is much like going through the history of education in Hong Kong. A report called A Perspective on Education in Hong Kong by a group of visiting panel, is still affecting the education reform in Hong Kong after 28 years. This visiting panel was formed by 4 scholars from the west: U.K., Canada, Australia and West Germany. Their thinking in the 80s were so advanced that HK is still in the progress to realizing their suggestions.

The Wednesday class is called Managing Change in School. Prof. Pang loves to ask us to work on the worksheet then discussed in groups/ pairs. The latest worksheet is an interesting exercise – we are asked to list those idioms, adjectives, slang, or text we used in every day life or festive seasons about the theme ‘change’. A brilliant way to introduce the type of change he would like to discuss in the next lesson, though it is very retro compared to the 21st century teaching (using e-book, or possibly i-slate in the very near future)

What I’d like to share from last lesson is the list of competencies shared by those outliners in the high-value added industry for instance, I.T. and probably design.

1/ 主動性
2/ 合作性
3/ 能在團體中工作
4/ 朋輩間培訓
5/ 檢討
6/ 推理
7/ 解決問題
8/ 做決定
9/ 獲取和使用資料　
10/ 計劃
11/ 學習能力
12/ 掌握多元文化的能力　

（Levin 1997）

So how many do you get?