To be an Advisory Teacher under the NET Scheme Support Team (also known as the Advisory Teaching Team). The duties are:

• (a)to act as a curriculum leader and collaborate with Native-speaking English Teachers (NETs) and other English teachers in the implementation of the curriculum at primary level;
• (b)to advise schools on the effective deployment of NETs;
• (c)to conduct regular school visits and provide on-site support to 15 -20 designated primary schools in the planning and implementation of the school-based English Language curriculum;
• (d)to develop effective learning and teaching strategies/activities and resource materials for English language teaching;
• (e)to facilitate and monitor the application of effective teaching strategies and curriculum resources in primary schools;
• (f)to organise and conduct English learning activities such as English camps for students as and when necessary;
• (g)to organise and conduct district-based seminars, experience-sharing workshops and networking activities for dissemination of good practices;
• (h)to plan and conduct professional development activities for all English teachers including NETs;
  • (i)to collaborate with other members of the NSST and contribute to the work of the NSST as an effective member;
• (j)to consult and report regularly to the supervisors on work progress; and
• (k)to perform any other duties with regard to the NET Scheme as and when required by the Secretary for Education or such other officers as the Secretary for Education may nominate.

Applicants should be native-speakers of English or have native-speaking English competence#, and should possess:

• (a)a Hong Kong bachelor's degree majoring in English Language or English Literature or English Studies or Linguistics* or Modern Languages* or equivalent;
• (b)a recognised teacher training qualification in primary education;
• (c)a Teaching English as a Foreign Language or a Second Language (TEFL/TESL) qualification at certificate level or equivalent; and
• (d)at least five years' post-graduate teaching experience in the subject of English.

Preference will be given to applicants with local teaching experience at primary level. Experience in school-based curriculum development and/or as English panel head is preferable.

Applicants who possess a Hong Kong bachelor's degree in other academic subjects, or equivalent AND a recognised teacher training qualification not in primary education AND a TEFL/TESL qualification at certificate level or equivalent may also apply. These applications may only be considered when there are positions left unfilled by applicants meeting all the qualification requirements.

# Native speakers of English are people who acquire the language in infancy and develop the language through adolescence and adulthood within a community where English is spoken as the first language. Native-speaker English competence refers to the ability to use English fluently and spontaneously, to give grammatically accurate responses in communication and to write or speak creatively. Non-native speakers of English, i.e. people who have not acquired the language in early childhood, are also suitable for employment as NETs if their English competence is not different from that of native-speakers in terms of fluency, accuracy and creativity in language use.

* A degree in Linguistics or Modern Languages should be one in which English is the major language studied.