The Jockey Club “Diversity at Schools” Project is funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to implement the first phase (2018-2021) and the second phase (2021-2024). Through the gathering of educational expertise from the participation of all primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong, a School-based Diversity Management Model was developed. The Jockey Club “Diversity at Schools” Project (Phase 2) is a collaboration among the Faculty of Education of the University of Hong Kong, the Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Department of Special Education and Counseling of the Education University of Hong Kong.

This project will continue to consolidate the “School-based Diversified Management Framework” (DM Infrastructure) through the three project initiatives of “Student Data”, “Differentiated Instruction” and “Learning Support”, as well as the establishment of a support mode and nurturement of teachers’ self-directed learning to further enhance the capacity of schools and teachers to cater for students’ learning diversity, so that each student can learn in an active and meaningful way.

In this project, the Learning Support Team provides professional training, customized school visits and regular review services to the participating schools based on the team’s professional advices on how these participating schools cater for learning diversities.

Based on the five student cases selected from each school, the Learning Support (LS) Team assists all participating schools to support and evaluate these five cases in terms of five domains: Inclusion Management, Learning and Teaching, eIEP (Electronic individualized Education Plan), Afterschool Support /Small Group and Parents’ Engagement across tutorials and school visits, and in consideration of the roles played by three distinctive members: SENCOs (Special Educational Needs Coordinator), SENSTs (Special Educational Needs Support Teachers) and LSAs (Learning Support Assistants).