協會簡介

 

Introduction

Founded in 1959, the Hong Kong Association of Careers Masters and Guidance Masters (HKACMGM) aims at providing professional support for all front-line guidance and careers guidance teachers in secondary schools of Hong Kong. Over the years, we have been endeavouring to serve local careers and guidance teachers and helping them to update their expertise in the area. Through a variety of activities, like seminars and talks on JUPAS and non-JUPAS pathways and other career opportunities, guidance courses for beginning and experienced guidance teachers, professional training workshops among all careers/guidance teachers, publications and research, implementation of the Summer Career-related Experience Scheme, promotion of the Caring School Awards Scheme as well as our newsletter, we have been providing our 400 plus member schools with all important information in the field so that they can disseminate accurate and quality services to students and keep themselves abreast of the latest trends in the careers / guidance field.  

In 2013, in order to enhance service to our member schools and to ensure our service standards and quality, the Association registered as a limited company and charitable organization, which marked a new page of the history and development of the Association.  In 2014/15, the Association will be celebrating its 55th anniversary. 

 

Activities/Programmes organized by the Hong Kong Association of Careers Masters and Guidance Masters

Seminars & Workshops

Different kinds of seminars and workshops are organized for careers teachers and guidance teachers, on topics like JUPAS and non-JUPAS opportunities, seminars on professional occupations, New Academic Structure (NAS), overseas study opportunities, Career Interest Inventory (CII), life planning, mental health, web addiction, drug addiction, Comprehensive Guidance Program, Individual Student Planning (ISP) stress, anti-bullying program, suicide and grief and group counselling etc.

Careers Guidance Course

A short course of 10 meetings is organized for careers teachers. It is specially designed for teachers currently involved in careers guidance and life planning work in school, and those who are interested in knowing more about the life and career development of their students.

Guidance Courses

Two short courses of 4 and 10 meetings are organized for guidance teachers. Experienced guidance teachers and social workers share with teachers on topics like crisis management, ways to deal with the SEN students, school bullying, mass media and students with mental disturbance, etc.

Publication on Career Guidance Handbook for Secondary School Graduates

A career guidance handbook is published each year for all secondary school graduates in collaboration with Careers Guidance Team, and Higher Education Division, EDB. The handbook provides valuable information for them before the release of DSE examination results.

Publication and research on Individual Student Planning

With the support of local academics, experienced career teachers and CDI, two learning tools, “Finding Your Colours of Life” (for S.1-S.3) and “Career Mapping” (for S.4-S.6) have been published for local secondary schools. Over 200 public/school-based workshops have been organized to equip teachers involved in careers education and guidance with the required skills and knowledge of how these can be best implemented. In 2009, with the support of Prof. Leung Seung Ming, Dean of Education, CUHK, we launched the Career Interest Inventory (CII) Platform through which students can conduct an empirically-based quantitative assessment on career inclination. Both students and career counsellors were provided with analysis of results that facilitate guidance and support for individuals.

Summer Career-related Experiences Scheme

The Scheme provides students from member schools an opportunity to acquire work knowledge and interpersonal skills and to experience the actual working environment in safe working conditions covered by an insurance policy. Participating students (S.5 or S.6) are arranged to experience the job in host organizations during the summer vacation.

Newsletters

A newsletter is published to report the functions organized by the Association and provides useful information for careers and guidance teachers, like JUPAS interview techniques and development of local associate degree programmes, overseas studies in Taiwan, Mainland China and other foreign countries.

JUPAS Talk and Statistics

A JUPAS seminar inviting representatives from all JUPAS member institutions is organized. It enables members to gather first-hand information from the JUPAS member institutions, and to clarify any queries about JUPAS application, which might have long been intriguing them.
To assist students in decision making in JUPAS, the Association compiles successful cases from member schools into an online electronic platform so that careers teachers and students (under the guidance of teachers) can take it as a reference before they counsel the students. ONLY MEMBER SCHOOLS are entitled to the use of the platform.

e-Learning Platform (ELP)

Ever since 2007, the Association has run over 300 workshops / talks / seminars on career guidance and life planning / individual student planning (ISP) for students under the NAS.  In order to allow more teachers to have professional training in a more flexible / distance mode, an e-Learning Platform (ELP) was set up in 2013 to enable more teachers to have professional development opportunities at their own pace and according to their own needs. All training packages have been substantially updated and revised to provide participants with the most up-to-date information.

Response to Education Policies related to Careers Guidance and Guidance

In view of the emergence of various reform measures which might have significant implications on the role and development of Careers Guidance and Life Planning and Guidance in secondary schools, including the implementation of NSS, Applied Learning (ApL) curriculum (formerly called Career-oriented Studies), SLP (Student Learning Profile), and study opportunities for NAS graduates, the population policy, Chief Executive’s Policy Address, the Association is taking up a more active role in response to various policy documents and voicing out the needs and concerns of front-line practitioners.

 

香港輔導教師協會工作簡

講座及工作坊
本會每年均為會員學校舉辦不同類型的講座及工作坊,曾舉辦的講座或工作坊有:有關不同專業之講座、聯招講座、副學位課程講座、海外升學講座、新學制研討會、「事業興趣測驗」工作坊、全方位學校輔導計畫、學生個人生涯規劃、特殊教育需要學生、校園欺凌講座、「壓力、自殺與哀傷輔導」講座等。

事業輔導課程
本會每年為升學輔導老師舉辦為期十節的短期課程,介紹生涯輔導理論,及實際推行輔導課程技巧等。

輔導課程
除了升學輔導課程外,本會亦為輔導老師舉辦兩個分別為期四節及十節的輔導課程,由經驗的輔導老師及社工主講,協助老師掌握及洞悉學生的各種需要,讓參加者更具體掌握實用的輔導技巧。

與教育局合作出版中六學生升學輔導手冊
本會與教育局升學輔導組及高等教育部每年均合作出版中學生升學輔導手冊,派發給全港中六學生,讓他們為放榜作好準備。

研發給學校發展生涯規劃的學習/評估工具及相關研究
本會得到課程發展處贊助計畫,並集結多位學者及富經驗的事業輔導老師的努力而編寫的本地化與事業相關的學習歷程架構。本會分別為初中及高中學生而設計和出版的《尋找生命的色彩》及《生涯地圖》得到非常正面的反應,至今已進行超過200多場公開或校本教師培訓工作坊,幫助老師掌握運用這工具的竅門和知識,協助學生規劃人生。2009年開始,我們得到中文大學教育學院院長梁湘明教授的支持,推出《香港事業興趣測驗:互聯網版本》,為高中學生提供一個經嚴謹學術研究驗證的量化職業性向評估工具,學生及事業輔導人員都會得到分析報告,促進老師跟進學生需要、進行個別輔導的成效。

暑期事業體驗計畫
教育局每年均與本會合辦的暑期事業體驗計畫,安排中五及中六的學生在暑假期間到不同的工商機構體驗數星期,了解各行業的運作,明瞭工作所需的能力、態度和其他要求,令同學們在踏入工作世界前能好好裝備自己。此計畫只接受會員學校之學生參加。

通訊
本會每年會出版會訊「輔導之聲」,報導本會舉辦的活動,及教育界之最新發展等。

大學聯招講座及統計
為協助升學輔導老師指導中六學生揀選大學課程,本會每年都舉辦大學聯招講座,邀請聯招院校代表講解最新發展,及解答老師問題。為協助升學輔導老師輔導同學選校及選科,本會從會員學校收集成功經聯招入讀大學的學生成績資料,並將之匯入網上平台,讓老師或學生在老師指導下參考有關數據選科。

網上學習平台e-Learning Platform (ELP)

自2007 年,本會各項發展計劃開辦過百場教師培訓工作坊,反應熱烈。由2013-14 學年開始,本會將所有培訓內容重新編寫整理,發展網上教師及輔導人員的自學平台,使用者不受時空限制,自由調節進修進度。

回應與中學生涯教育及輔導工作相關的教育政策
因應近年教育改革中有幾個與學校生涯教育及學生輔導息息相關的措施,包括應用學習課程(前稱職業導向教育課程)、高中學制改革、學生學習概覽、中學生升學出路、未來人口政策及施政報告生涯規劃措施等,本會除積極從教師前線的角度提出教師的關注及意見外,也曾就施政報告生涯規劃措進行會員學校意見調查,並將報告交教育局參考。