CityU Holds “CityU Classroom Teaching Reform and Innovation Achievement Sharing Seminar and the 2nd Teaching Academic Report Conference for 2018-2019”

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On June 14, City University of Macau (CityU) held "CityU Classroom Teaching Reform and Innovation Achievement Sharing Seminar and the 2nd Teaching Academic Report Conference for 2018-2019" at Ho Yin Convention Centre. This conference continued the main thread of "Focusing on One Class and Exceeding One Class" of last year and centered on the theme of "Going beyond the Rhetoric and Making It Works in Practice" of this year. Guests from the education circle of Macao, including Teng Sio Hong, the Head of Research and Coordination of Higher Education, Higher Education Bureau, Acting Deputy Director Wong Kin Mou of Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, and Cheang Hong Kuong, the Secretary-General of the Chinese Educators Association of Macau, as well as CityU's leaders, including Rector Shu Guang Zhang, Vice Rector Kong Fanqing, and Pro-Rector Ip Kuai Peng, attended the conference. All teachers and personnel of administrative departments of CityU also actively participated in the sharing seminar about teaching cases and research results.

This conference was divided into two sessions: expert lectures and sharing of reports by teaching reform and innovation research groups. Professor Zhang Xiaojing and Associate Professor Tao Taofu of Renmin University of China, Dr. Diane Janes of South Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Canada, Professor Tsai Ya-Hsun of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Professor Li Jau-Roing of National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU), Dr. Zeng Min of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Dr. Alice Lee of University of Macau delivered speeches on hot topics and latest development of higher education. CityU selected four teachers from the research groups as representatives to share their results of special teaching research projects and reflections on teaching. The audience praised their reports.

CityU attaches great importance to the quality of classroom teaching, encourages teachers to perform teaching reform and innovation bravely, utilizes modern educational technologies to conduct new teaching activities, and enhances teaching effectiveness. Under the coordination of Academic Registrar Sean Li, CityU has continuously set up the action research program, called "Classroom Teaching Reform and Innovation" since 2017 in order to encourage and fund teachers to conduct innovative teaching activities and teaching action researches.

Teaching quality is the lifeline of survival and sustainable development of a university. In his concluding remarks, Academic Registrar Sean Li emphasized the significant roles of "Diligent Teaching", "Diligent Research", and "Diligent Creation" in the construction and development of teaching culture. Moreover, he held that, CityU will constantly push teaching action research, while carrying out more activities, such as teaching excellence assessment, external review of teaching plan, flipping classroom, and development of online courses, to strength its teaching and academic levels and shape a campus culture that integrates science and teaching and stresses teaching.