Teacher Training Seminar (Primary)

May 23, 2023

Language: Cantonese

JC A-Connect’s Teacher Training Seminar (Primary) based on the topic of “self-advocacy” from the Group Training Resource Package for Students with ASD was held on May 23, 2023. The seminar taught school personnel the ways to prepare primary school students for possible choices in the future through training, such as participating in extra-curricular activities, developing strengths and interests, and hence, reaching their personal goals.

“Self-advocacy” refers to the skills of reaching one’s goals and realising aspirations, including decision and choice making. To help students developing such skills, it is not about the amount of knowledge or skills they learn but the mastery of their own characteristics and needs to make choices that are suitable for them, to cope with difficulties and to be responsible for their own decisions and actions.

In this seminar, educational psychologists, Dr. Sonia Chan and Ms. Elsa Chiu from the Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong, were invited to introduce and explain the training skills, followed with a professional from a social welfare organisation, who shared her experiences in group training. The seminar was conducted online and positive feedback from the participants were received.