Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education

Background

The core mission of education is cultivating values and nurturing people, and values education has always been an important goal of the Hong Kong school curriculum. The Values Education Curriculum Framework (2026) sets the overarching direction of “Taking root in Chinese Culture, Connecting with the World, Embracing the Future” and supports schools in promoting values education through the approaches of “organic integration”, “natural connection”, “diversified strategies”, “mutual coordination”, “learning within and beyond the classroom”, and “whole-school participation”, while creating a conducive school atmosphere, with a view to nurturing in students proper values and attitudes on all fronts.

The 2026/27 “Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education” (OTAVE) continues to focus on the aspect of learning and teaching. It encourages teachers to adopt diversified and innovative teaching strategies to integrate the learning content of the cross-curricular domains in values education, the twelve Priority Values and Attitudes (PVAs) and/or school-based proper values and attitudes into daily classroom teaching or activities through relevant subject learning or cross-disciplinary collaboration, thereby fostering students’ interaction, reflection and practice, deepening their understanding of proper values, and enabling them to internalise proper values into personal beliefs and daily behaviours.

Aims

The OTAVE aims at encouraging teachers to:

integrate the learning content of the cross-curricular domains in values education, the PVAs, and/or school-based proper values and attitudes into the 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 teaching;

explore and apply diversified and innovative classroom teaching strategies to cater for students’ diverse learning and developmental needs, with a view to fostering their development of proper values, instilling in them positive attitudes towards life and helping them practise appropriate behaviour across the facets of “cognition”, “affection” and “action”;

develop and implement relevant teaching plans and learning activities, and foster teachers’ professional growth through reflecting on teaching practices; and
promote good teaching practices and foster a culture of professional exchange and sharing to further promote values education.

What’s New

Online Briefing cum Sharing Session on the 2026/27 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education

The Online Briefing cum Sharing Session on the 2026/27 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education is scheduled for 30 October 2026 (Friday). Participating teachers will be awarded Continuing Professional Development hours. Teachers interested in participating in the OTAVE are welcome to enroll via the Education Bureau’s Training Calendar System (TCS) (EDB TCS Course ID: CDI020270181) on or before 28 October 2026 (Wednesday).

2026/27 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education (OTAVE)

2026/27 OTAVE is now open for nomination.
The deadline for nominations is 30 November 2026 (Monday). For details, please refer to the EDB Circular Memorandum No.119/2026.
Please click here to download the “Nomination Form”.
Please click here to download the “Learning & Teaching Plan”.

Results announcement of the “2025/26 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education”
“2025/26 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education” has been successfully concluded.

Thank you for schools’ and teachers’ active participation.

Please click here to see the “List of Awardees”.

Extension of nomination deadline of 2025/26 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education to 5 December 2025 (Friday)

To allow sufficient time for participating teams and schools to deal with the technical issues and submit relevant documents, the OTAVE Secretariat has now extended the nomination deadline of the 2025/26 OTAVE to 5 December 2025 (Friday).

For enquiries or any technical problems, please contact OTAVE Secretariat on 2153 7410.

Extension of nomination deadline to 5 December 2025 (Friday)

To allow sufficient time for participating teams and schools to deal with the technical issues and submit relevant documents, the Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education (OTAVE) Secretariat has now extended the nomination deadline of the 2025/26 OTAVE to 5 December 2025 (Friday).

For enquiries or any technical problems, please contact OTAVE Secretariat on 2153 7410.

Online Briefing cum Sharing Session on the 2025/26 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education

The Online Briefing cum Sharing Session on the 2025/26 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education is scheduled for 31 October 2025 (Friday). Participating teachers will be awarded Continuous Professional Development hours. Interested parties please enroll via the Education Bureau’s Training Calendar System (TCS) (EDB TCS Course ID: CDI020260333) on or before 27 October 2025 (Monday).

2025/26 The Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education (OTAVE)

2025/26 The OTAVE is now open for nomination.

The deadline for submission of applications is 28 November 2025 (Friday). For details, please refer to the EDB Circular Memorandum No.147/2025.

Please click here to download the “Nomination Form”.

Please click here to download the “Learning & Teaching Plan Information Sheet”.

Values Education Annual Prize Presentation Ceremony 2024/25
Values Education Annual Prize Presentation Ceremony 2024/25 was successfully held on 29 August 2025.

Learning and Teaching Resources

Teaching Resources Sharing
CHI

List of Awardees

2025/26 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education Awardee List (In alphabetical order of the name of schools)

Primary School

School	Teacher	Theme
Holy Cross Lutheran School	YUEN Lai Ting, WONG Hiu Sin, KWOK Chi Hang	Promotion of “Benevolence” and “Unity”
Shek Lei Catholic Primary School	PAN Dahui, MO Wanling	Promotion of “Benevolence” and “Unity”
St. John The Baptist Catholic Primary School	MOK Wing Yin, CHAN Cheuk Ka, LIU Ka Ping	Life Education
Tin Shui Wai Methodist Primary School	MOK Lai Ha, YUEN Yui Chit, YIP Sea Hong	Life Education

Secondary School

School	Teacher	Theme
Diocesan Girls' School	Kelvin CHEUNG, TONG Chi Kin, TSANG Yuet Ming	Promotion of “Benevolence” and “Unity”
Ebenezer School	WONG Leo Park Lam, FUNG Tsz Kit, YEUNG Ka Yan	Life Education
Fung Kai No. 1 Secondary School	FU Wai Tin, LI Ho	Promotion of “Benevolence” and “Unity”
The Pentecostal Holiness Church Wing Kwong College	LEE Chung Yan, SIU Wing Ho, CHEANG Yee Ching	Sex Education

2024/25 Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education Awardee List

Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education Awardee List

Contact Us

Outstanding Teaching Award for Values Education Secretariat
Address：	Room 402, 4/F, Kowloon Government Offices, 405 Nathan Road, Kowloon
Enquiry：	2153 7410
Fax：	3426 9265
Email：	info_mcne1@edb.gov.hk