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Community Outreach

The Jockey Club “Play n Gain” Project would also organize, participate and advocate in various training courses, Play Education events and seminars. These events cover not only kindergarten’s parent education and teacher professional development with partnered kindergartens, but also other families and communities from all over Hong Kong.

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8-10 December 2021

Learning and teaching Expo 2021(「學與教博覽」2021)

A group of trained volunteers and game ambassadors are full of confidence in this event, leading the visitors to play interactive games, including parents of kindergarten students, volunteers from the Agency for Volunteer Service, game trainers and game ambassadors of a senior citizen association.

The visitors to Booth B22 of the Jockey Club "Play n Gain" Project included experienced educators, school teachers and parents that they tried out the "Game Theory Corner" and interactive games. They enjoyed it very much and exchanged ideas with each other.

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Public Seminars (Summary)

12 November 2021

Teacher professional development ：Positive Play Experiential Workshop

(天主教區教師專業發展：正向遊戲體驗工作坊)

The Jockey Club "PlaynGain" Project conducted a teacher professional development training on 12 Nov 2021 for 94 teachers from 14 kindergartens. During the professional development training, teachers learnt games to help children relax and how to add positive elements in the classroom.

15 December 2019

The Education Bureau Public Talk for Parents“Positive Me, Positive Kid”

(正向的我，正向孩子)

The Project Director of the Jockey Club “Play n Gain” Project, Dr Sylvia Liu, shared with parents how to adapt positive parenting in daily lives with abundant tips on games at home to further practice Play Education, which could help children develop the necessary social-emotional competence to succeed in 21st century. This process starts with capturing the children right behaviours and showing good examples at home as role models, eventually these practices could help parents nurture confident and optimistic children who know how to appreciate, as well as develop strong bonding with children and their social-emotional learning.

19 October 2019 (SAT)

The Hong Kong Family Welfare Society Public Talk for Teachers

（家福會「遊共情」- 如何支援幼童情緒社交發展教師講座)

The Project Director of the Jockey Club “Play n Gain” Project, Dr Sylvia Liu, spoke on how interactive games can support the development of children through experiential learning. The teachers experienced gamified teaching activities that will assist them in adding interactive game elements into their daily teaching.

23 June 2019 (SAT)

Play Education Public Talk at the University of Hong Kong

The talk analysed the social phenomena in the 21st Century and illustrated how interactive games can contribute to the development of children's social skills. The talk also demonstrated techniques of facilitating face-to-face interactive games for teachers and parents so they can broaden the ways to communicate with their children.

23 February 2019 (SAT)

The Kindergarten Teacher Development Day, Eastern District, Hong Kong

(香港東區幼稚園教師發展日)

The Project Director of the Jockey Club “Play n Gain” Project, Dr Sylvia Liu, illustrated the theme of “Play Education with Hong Kong DNA” (富香港 DNA 特色的遊戲教育) for the principals and teachers from more than 40 kindergartens. This seminar also provides a Play Education workshop for teachers to experience gamified teaching activities during the talk that will assist them in implementing game elements in their daily teaching.

Public Training Courses (Summary)

a) Online Public Training Courses

6 July 2020

Online Knowledge Exchange Seminar: “Play Education & Treasure Hunt”
(「遊戲教育★尋寶遊戲」網上知識交流研討會)

Dr Mantak Yuen and Dr Sylvia Liu shared with parents how to facilitate children’s development with the use of interactive games. Also, how to discover children's characteristics and establish connection with them through Play Education in order to improve their social abilities and emotional intelligence.

In the seminar, Dr Sylvia Liu demonstrated how to link the six practical stages of Play Education with an interactive game, “Happy Box”.

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March 2020

Beginner-level Online Training for Parents and Educators: “Making Good Use of Play Education to Nurture Positive Competence”

( 「善用遊戲教育，培養正向能力」 )

Even if leading from the starting line, how do we guide our children in the right direction? What kinds of capabilities do they need to be equipped so as not to lose at the finish line?

3S Positive Strengths (The right direction)

☑ Self-capability (自理能力) “I can do it by myself”
☑ Social competence (社交能力) “Together everyone achieves more/We can do it together”
☑ Social contribution (貢獻能力) “Give and help each other”

This note combines simple concepts and practical steps for Play Education. Parents and teachers could nurture these positive strengths in their children from a young age through interactive games. Students are always learning about life so early childhood education should be relevant to their daily lives. The practical application of positive strengths will allow children to explore the people and objects in their own surroundings with confidence. The common goal for parents and teachers is to nurture the children to become a self-capable, sociable, contributing and independent individual.

To download the presentation slides of this online training session, please visit http://caise.edu.hku.hk/play_edu_to_pos_behviour_public/

b) On-site Training

July-August 2019

Play Education Training Course @ The University of Hong Kong

A training course provided support to the participants from the public seminar who could not join the programme with our kindergarten partners. The format would be similar as the workshops and practice sessions.

c) Interactive Game Experience

The Project would organize various interactive game experience events to help increase public awareness for Play Education. Through interesting interactive games, the children could learn from the process and develop their social-emotional competence. These events will also help improve the communication between parent and child and thus enhancing the parent-child relationship.

20 November 2021 (SAT)

“Day Day Play” ( 互動遊戲日日玩)@Tai Kwun