A-Star Platform — Your Star-rated assistant for your teaching and training (Chinese version only)
A-Star Platform is a computer application specially designed for teachers and trainers. It can be installed on ordinary desktop computers or laptops to provide teachers and support staff with convenient and diverse auxiliary tools for their daily teaching. This platform has built-in multiple evidence-based teaching tools, which are particularly suitable for supporting students with special educational needs (SEN), improving their performance in learning, social and emotional adaptation, and allowing them to further integrate into classroom and community activities.
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Why choose A-Star Platform?
In the classroom, teachers not only take care of students' learning diversity, but also deal with their emotional and behavioral needs. A-Star Platform provides diversified strategies to help teachers manage classrooms more effectively and support students' learning and behavioral development.
- Promote positive behavior and assist in classroom engagement: tools such as flow charts, visual strategies, reward charts, etc.
- Emotional self-regulation and support for behavioral management: Emotional regulation scale and four zones of regulation
- Improve social interaction and enhance communication skills: tools such as voice level chart and impression system
- Suitable for both individual and small group trainings based on students’ goals: use the platform’s tools to provide targeted support based on students’ individual goals, such as improving students’ “social adaptation” and “emotional adaptation” abilities in group or individual training.
How to make good use of A-Star Platform?
A-Star Platform can be downloaded on computer in advance and operated offline (without the need to stay connected to network) in different devices (such as SMART TV). Teachers, school support staff (such as counselors, social workers) and trainers can flexibly deploy A-Star Platform in different teaching settings, including:
- Large class teaching: assist teachers in classroom management and improve students’ learning adaptation (Example teaching video)
- Group activities: promote students’ social and emotional development (Example teaching video)
- Individual training: provide in-depth support for addressing students’ individual goals (Example teaching video)
In addition, A-Star Platform will automatically record the usage status and store the data into one save file, which can be copied to other computers so that instructors can later use the same tool settings in different locations.
Welcome to download A-Star Platform
The operation of A-Star Platform is simple. Simply download the application on your desktop or laptop computer (both Windows and Mac OS are supported) and you are ready to go. The tools of the platform have different functions and also support simultaneous operation with other programmes (such as PowerPoint, Canva, and e-books, etc.) to further enhance the flexibility of teaching and training.
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A-Star Platform is a great helper for your teaching, helping you strategically support students and promote their continuous growth and development!
For any inquiries, please feel free to contact us via email at epsntw@edb.gov.hk.