Field Experience Components
  Student teachers are provided with a range of experiences, which may include visits to a variety of educational institutions and school attachments. These activities aim to provide student teachers with an increasing involvement in schools. The main component of field experience, however, consists of sustained periods of block teaching practice.
       
  Student teachers move from assisting a teacher in the classroom and working with individuals or small groups of pupils, to eventually teaching a whole class.
       
  Visits
  Visits are made to various educational institutions to broaden student teachers' understanding of the rich diversity of learning opportunities available to pupils in Hong Kong. These visits give student teachers a chance to talk to pupils individually and in small groups, as well as to observe lessons.
       
  School Attachment
  A period of school attachment, in the early part of the programme, gives student teachers the opportunity to be involved in the day-to-day life of a school as interactive observers. Each student is assigned to a supporting teacher and will serve as an assistant to this teacher. The student teachers are expected to help the teachers in class, by taking up the supervision of some groups of students, trying out team teaching, tutoring, preparing teaching materials, marking pupilsˇ¦ work, helping groups of pupils or an individual pupil, and assisting in extra-curricular activities. Students are also expected to spend time talking to pupils and staff about the learning experiences offered by the school, both in the classroom and outside, so as to be as fully involved in the life of the school as possible.
       
  Block Practice
  A period of block practice provides student teachers with opportunities to teach and to be engaged in the life and work of the school.
       
 
The block practice is made up of two components:
 
1.
 Teaching.
 
2.
 Help out with school-wide activities e.g. involvement with the non-formal curriculum, and playground duties.
       
  The student teacher's involvement in both of these activities will provide the basis for the assessment of the student teacher's performance.
       
  An initial visit to the school will be made to meet the Principal, the link teacher and supporting teachers. The content of the teaching and details about the school will be discussed during the meeting with the supporting teacher. Schools may arrange an induction period, when necessary, in which the student teachers are oriented into the workings of the school before they take up teaching duties. This may range from one to a few days.