Professional Dev for Non-faculty teaching staff

Facilitators: May Tse and Rambo Lai, CELT

Format: e-Seminar

In this semester, CELT introduced a new initiative of real time professional development at your desktop.

In this first session of the three workshop series, participants has given an experiential tour on how the key functions and features work in a Virtual Classroom from an audience’s perspective.

Presenters: Prof Thomas Hu and Prof Jui-Pin Wang, CIVL

Format: Seminar

Presenter: Dr Lucia Yeung (CELT)

Format: Seminar

In this workshop, the presenter has discussed on the following topics with audiance:

• Student Attention Span
• Information overload
• Students’ Learning Approaches
• Research on Principles of Good Teaching Practices

It also provided a platform for non-faculty teaching staff to network, share and discuss various teaching experiences at UST.

Workshop Materials:

Presenters: Dr. Melody Chao and Prof Larry Farh, MGMT

Format: Seminar

In this seminar, Dr Melody Chao and Dr Larry Farh shared their findings from a large scale longitudinal study of SBM students about the effectiveness of the various intercultural activities in enhancing their intercultural competence and related learning outcomes.

The seminar also featured interactive discussion on how to improve the current curriculums to help students develop stronger intercultural skills.

Presenter:  Dr Tak HA, CELT

Format: Seminar

Presenter:  Dr Lucia Yeung and May Tse, CELT

Format:  e-Seminar

In this e-Seminar, participants learnt about how to apply the motivation theory in motivating students in your class over an online collaborative platform called the  Virtual Classroom . They also experienced online learning at their desktop as well as the potential uses of this tool in their own teaching.

Workshop Materials:

Facilitators: May Tse and Rambo Lai, CELT

Format: e-Seminar

In this workshop, the presenter has introduced a new initiative of real time professional development at your desktop by given an experiential tour on how the key functions and features work in a Virtual Classroom from an audience’s perspective.

Presenter: Prof Oliver Lo, Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Humanities

Format: Workshop

In this workshop, Prof Oliver Lo shared with participants how to protect and project their voices as a teacher or presenter. Participants learnt about ways of maintaining vocal hygiene, summarized the physiological aspects of vocal production mechanism and able to applied the learnt materials to develop breath support and optimum vocal placement.

Workshop Materials:

In Fall 2012, CELT will offer the following workshops to introduce you to a range of institutional eTools that support your teaching at HKUST. All faculty members and teaching staff are welcome to join the sessions that are of interest.

About the workshops

We would like to invite new non-faculty teaching staff (Instructors, Lecturers, Teaching Associates, Instructional Assistants etc.) to attend a one-day Orientation organized by the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching on August 21 (Tuesday).