It has been my pleasure and honour to be associated with the work of the Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence. In the past twenty months, a group of education experts, front-line teachers, academics and members of the community who made up the award sub-committee have worked closely together to set up the Award from initial conceptualization to final selection. The recognition of the excellent teaching practices of the awardees is the culmination of a great deal of these efforts. I would like to thank those who have been involved, in particular, members of the Assessment Panels and the Quality Education Fund Secretariat for their dedication towards this task.

Assessment for the Award covers the key domains pertinent to what teaching excellence calls for. Throughout the process of promoting the Award, nomination and assessment, the Award has successfully kindled reflection and aroused awareness amongst the teaching profession on the need to continually strive for excellence. And it is in this connection that the Award inculcates changes in the teaching culture, and in the longer term, help bring the ideals in the Education Reform to fruition through dissemination and sharing of the identified excellent teaching practices to the teaching community.

On behalf of the Chief Executive's Award for Teaching Excellence Sub-committee, I would like to offer my heartfelt congratulations to all awardees. We look forward to seeing the outstanding teaching practices being disseminated, which will in turn stimulate positive changes to the teaching profession in Hong Kong.