Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education

Background

Education is the good cause of cultivating values.  Fostering students’ development of proper values, instilling in them positive attitudes towards life and enabling them to practise appropriate behaviour have always been the important goals of school education in Hong Kong.  The Education Bureau (EDB) advocates 12 Priority Values and Attitudes (PVAs) as the direction for secondary and primary schools to promote values education. 

Education Bureau organised the first “Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education” in the 2024/25 school year with fruitful results.  In the 2025/26 school year, the “Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education” continues to encourage teachers, aligning with the school contexts and students’ needs, to integrate the learning content of the cross-curricular domains in values education and the 12 Priority Values and Attitudes (hereafter “PVAs”) into the learning and teaching of various subjects/ cross-disciplinary learning with the approaches of “organic integration” and “natural connection”. Teachers are also encouraged to strengthen the promotion of values education by adopting diversified and innovative strategies in daily classroom learning and teaching activities, with a view to nurturing in students’ proper values, positive attitudes towards life and helping them practise appropriate behaviour across the facets of “cognition, affection and action”.

Aims

The OTAVE aims at encouraging teachers to:

• Integrate the learning contents of the cross-curricular domains in values education and the 12 PVAs into learning and teaching of various Key Learning Areas / subjects through the approaches of “organic integration” and “natural connection”, so as to strengthen the promotion of values education in daily classroom learning and teaching activities;

• Explore and adopt diversified and innovative classroom teaching strategies and to cater for students’ diverse learning and developmental needs,with a view to fostering their development of proper values, instilling in them the positive attitudes towards life and helping them practise appropriate behaviour from the facets of “cognitive, affective and action”;

• Develop and implement relevant teaching plans and learning activities, and foster teachers’ professional growth through teaching reflection; and
• Promote good teaching practices and establish a culture of professional exchange and sharing to further advance values education.

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