Teaching Excellence

Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient Sharing: My ‘Aha’ moments in teaching

Overview:

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. With the changing economic and social landscapes and the advent of technology, especially the way students access information, conventional education is facing many challenges. In this talk, the speaker shared his understanding about teaching/learning and some personal experience, with respect to three key components for school education, i.e. subject matter, methods, and administration.

Unmasking Teaching Excellence: Experience Sharing from Teaching Award Winners

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At HKUST, we are honored to have excellent teachers who contribute positively to the learning environment by demonstrating student-centered teaching. This seminar aims to provide a platform for the participants and speakers to start conversations about teaching and exchange views on good teaching practices.

Common Core Program Series: Embracing Student Diversity in Common Core Courses — Stimulating Student Interest and Meeting Individual Needs

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Catering to the diverse interests and needs of students is a major challenge in teaching common core courses. In this seminar, Professor Jing WANG, the recipient of the 2017 Common Core Teaching Excellence Award, has shared with the audience her experience in teaching the common core course and various approaches she takes to arouse student interest, facilitate peer interaction in- and out-class, and meet individuals’ unique needs. She also talked about her practices in managing student group project.

Common Core Program Series: Why are my students sleeping in class? – Simple active learning activities to motivate students in large class

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Class size is a major concern to any educational system and there are well-acknowledged challenges of large class teaching at the university. “A large class as one in which characteristics and conditions present themselves as inter-related and collective constraints that impede meaningful teaching and learning”. However, the fact is that no matter the class is big or small, instructors are expected to teach and assess students effectively.

Invigorate your Teaching to Enhance their Learning: Strategies to Engage Students

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Effective teaching requires knowledge of the discipline and a commitment to student engagement. In this seminar, Prof Garvin Percy Dias shared his strategies to engage students with active learning strategies. Most students learn best and retain more when they are actively engaged with the content, constructing meaning and applying concepts. Active learning can be messy, and it’s lots of hard work, but it is also fun and rewarding—for you and your students.

Common Core Program Series: The Chemistry Behind Motivating Students

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Dr Jason CHAN, the recipient of the Common Core Teaching Excellence Award 2016, has revealed his secrets of teaching in this seminar. In particular, he featured his experience and practices in managing and engaging large classes with over 300 students with diverse backgrounds. He also shared his views on the traditional textbook approach and his adoption of an experiential learning project component in his course design and delivery for creating a unique learning experience for students.

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