CityU Successfully Holds the Teaching Experience Sharing by Teachers Winning the Excellence Teaching Award for the 2017-2018 Academic Year and Teaching Academic Report Conference

On December 4, the Teaching Experience Sharing by Teachers Winning the Excellence Teaching Award for the 2017-2018 Academic Year and Teaching Academic Report Conference was successfully held at the Ho Yin Convention Centre of CityU. Pro-Rector Cintia Chan, Mr. Wicky So, Director of Administrative Division, Academic Registrar Sean Li, Prof. José C. Alves, Dean of Faculty of Business and teachers of each faculty or department were invited to attend the report conference.

Three teachers winning the Excellence Teaching Award for the 2017-2018 Academic Year, Prof. Zhong Wang, Assistant Professor Francisco Paulo de Nogueira Botelho and Senior Lecturer Yi-Hsin Tzeng, were invited to share their teaching experience. The three teachers shared their teaching concepts, teaching stories and inspiration from the aspects of teaching experience, perception in lesson preparation and student experience. Under the background of rapid development of science and technology, the three outstanding teachers demonstrated how to apply the teaching method of "teaching fishing is better than giving fish" with vivid teaching cases of their own, and emphasized the significance that students should think proactively and solve problems independently.

Dr. Sean Li, Academic Registrar, was also invited to deliver an academic report on the new progress of the teaching reform and innovation projects of CityU. Academic Registrar Li concluded in the conference that the reform and innovation of classroom teaching in universities depended on the positive thinking of each teacher about how to adapt to the changes in the requirements of times and the needs of students, and constant reflection on and improvement of teaching methods in the classroom. Through the play of movie clips, Academic Registrar Li also vividly displayed the significance of the teaching concept of "teaching a bit less and learning a little more" to the innovation of classroom teaching, encouraged teachers to start from researching a course well, even from researching a lesson well, so that teachers could develop a good habit of teaching and scientific research and effectively improve their teaching level.

The "Teaching Excellence Award of the City University of Macau" was established in 2017, designed to reward and commend excellent teachers for their excellent teaching performance, and encourage and promote the professional growth and teaching innovation of CityU's teachers. The evaluation of the Teaching Excellence Award for the 2018-2019 Academic Year is under preparation. The University encourages more teachers to actively participate in the selection of the Teaching Excellence Award for the current academic year. CityU will continue to fairly and impartially select winners of the Teaching Excellence Award for the current academic year in an effort to improve the teaching quality of CityU.