Professional Dev for Faculty

Presenter: Jude Carroll

Format: Seminar

Session 1: Getting the best out of Turnitin

Presenter: Prof Chris Knapper

Format: Seminar / Workshop

Session 1: An Introduction to Formative Evaluation of Teaching – Goals, Rationale, and Strategies

This interactive seminar explored reasons and benefits for engaging with formative evaluation of your teaching. Prof Knapper outlined different strategies for evaluation that can lead to improvement of teaching, including self-assessment, peer evaluation, and using a range of information provided by students.

Presenter: Prof Oliver Lo

Format: Professional Development Workshop

A clear voice is a key part of any teacher's toolkit. But have you ever lost your voice from teaching? And even if you haven't yet, this workshop helped you learn how to project you voice in the classroom but not damage it.

By the end of this 90-minute workshop, participants were able to:

Format: Seminar

In summer 2009, the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching has organized the New Faculty Orientation program that covers various topics and teaching and learning support services at UST.

Presenter: Prof Joan Cooper

Format: Seminar

The total student experience encompasses teaching and learning, curriculum, student life, advising and mentoring. The term embraces the notion that learning does not only take place in the classroom and that students’ time spent in higher education is about a whole range of experiences.

Presenter: Prof George Gordon

Format: Seminar

The seminar explored the various agendas (e.g. Research Councils/funders, students/newer researchers, employers, discipline communities) that exercise an influence on practices. Participants were invited to share experiences and identify issues. That information was used to inform consideration of what actions should be prioritised and how these could start to inform a coherent developmental model for early career researchers.

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Presenter: Prof George Gordon

Format: Seminar

The seminar drew upon experience in Scotland of a recent Quality Enhancement theme around the contribution of Research-Teaching Linkages in the development of graduate attributes. Prof George Gordon was co-director of the sector-wide project. There were also several projects targeted at groups of disciplines.

Presenter: Dr Julian M. Groves

Format: Seminar

Why do so few women enter the fields of science and engineering? Why are women underrepresented in Hong Kong’s business, political, and legal institutions? In this interactive seminar, Dr Julian Groves shared some classroom techniques that he has developed over the years which instructors can use to make students aware of the gendered obstacles that they will face in their professional lives.

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Presenter: Prof Michael Wong, Prof King Chow, Dr Ice Ko and Prof Lam-Lung Yeung

Format: Seminar

Presenter: Prof David Kember

Format: Seminar

Have students complained to you about the study workload of your class? Are we really given them too much work to do? In this seminar, Prof Kember of the University of Hong Kong shared findings of one of his recent research projects, A Week in the Life of a University Student, which looked at the workload of students in a local university, and how it was possible to engage students in high quality work without over-stressing them.

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