Teaching Excellence Awardees

Learning is Fun

Building Expertise Through Tech-Driven Innovations

Learning with AI: Where Clinical Reasoning Meets Digital Confidence

Represented by Professor Ron Chi Wai KWOK (Department of Information Systems) as team leader, with Mr Albert Yan Kit CHUNG and Ms Cindy Yin Kam MAN as team members

From Learners to Entrepreneurs: Transforming Ideas into Impacts through Teamwork and AI

Serve the Disadvantaged, Discover Your Purpose

Inspire with Passion, Empower with Innovation: Achieving Inclusive Success

AI-Powered Classrooms: Where Self-Directed Curiosity Meets Career Readiness

Ignite Curiosity, Explore Interdisciplinarity, Apply Creativity for Climate Action

Learn in Play, Prosper in Share

A Good Teacher is Like a Catalyst That Assists in Transforming Students into Self-Motivated Lifelong Learners

A Digital Deep Dive into Where the Past and Present Meet

Represented by Dr Rebecca S. V. PARKES (Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences) as team leader, with Professor Vanessa Rosemary Duke BARRS, Dr Gareth Lee FITCH, Dr Kate Jade FLAY and Mrs Susanna TAYLOR as team members

Tech-to-Vet: Clinical Skills for Tomorrow’s Vets

Animating the Next Generation of Artists

Represented by Professor Henry Shu Hung CHUNG (Department of Electrical Engineering) as team leader, with Professor Robert Kwok Yiu LI, Dr Ray Chak Chung CHEUNG, Dr King Wai Chiu LAI and Dr Miu Ling LAM as team members

STEAM: Sharing, Training, Empowering, Aspiring, Motivating

Deep Learning with Relish

Teach to Inspire and Uncover, Innovate and Inspire to Teach

Visualizing and Enhancing Students’ Passions via Biomedical Imaging to Promote Better Lives

Innovative Teaching and Learning through Knowledge Transformation for Global Challenges

Represented by Dr Hau San WONG (Department of Computer Science) as team leader, with Dr Mang Tang CHAN, Dr Jacky Wai KEUNG and Dr Lam For KWOK as team members

Placement: a Bridge from Students to Professionals

The Stage is My Classroom

Learn from Problems to Cultivate Your Self

Knowledge in Context for a Meaningful Life

Learning from Research, Learning for Life

Nurturing Discovery-based Learning for Social Impact

Learning Robotics through Hands-on Experience to Change our Lives

Excellent Competence in Accounting, Dedicated Contribution to Society

Teaching with a Clear Vision

Rediscovering the Familiar through Creative Work

Empowering Students, Empowering Community

Bringing Together Art and Science for Learning about the Environment

Orchestrating Student Success

Experiential Learning for Career Development

Creating Life Skills by Engaging with Elders

Nurturing Scientific Discovery

Enabling Learning through Media Experimentation

Helping Students Discover the Leader Within

Empowering Learning by Deconstructing Knowledge

Helping students to make connections

Leading students to program their learning success

Encouraging knowledge discovery through passion

Education 2.0: Playful learning for practice

Preparing learners in the classroom for the boardroom

Teaching innovativeness: From problem discovery to entrepreneurship

For innovative student engagement

For motivating student learning inside and outside the classroom

For excellence through affectionate teaching

For dedication to student achievement

For Facilitates student learning through problem and project based strategies

For Enhancing students and staff development through reflective practice

For Bringing the counseling process into the classroom

Through carefully crafted student reflection and interaction, he brings about a passion for English language learning.

Transforms his students through his own role model as a social worker professor.

Leadership in the classroom and beyond towards outcomes based learning.

Energetically engages his students in the process of learning in the classroom and far beyond.

Making a difficult subject easy through a carefully thought out multi-layered approach to student learning.

Ms Teresa Dong has been the programme leader of BBA China Business since 2003, coordinating the development and implementation of two courses, namely China Business Communication and China Business Workshop. These are enormous tasks involving the supervision of a large group of academic staff teaching these courses and the teaching of around 1,000 students. Ms Dong has brought in a wide range of interactive activities in classes to facilitate student learning. Her classes are well prepared and well planned. She implemented Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning in her own courses. Her students are able to be engaged in business communication using fluent Putonghua in both real and simulated situations. She coordinates the Chinese Management Training Workshop in Beijing and Summer Internship for the Programme. She is being given the Teaching Excellence Award for her outstanding efforts in promoting student learning beyond the classroom.

Dr Claudian Kwok structured EF 4314 Corporate Finance II in an innovative way to help his students learn beyond the standard Finance textbook level. In this course, he has developed all course materials using local case studies and simplified information on advanced research to help students develop their analytical skills and learn from different perspectives. Dr Kwok also implemented Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning in EF 5342 Monetory and Financial SysteMs His course materials are well prepared and his knowledge in finance is demonstrably up to date. In terms of teaching strategy, Dr Kwok aspires to train students through "Learning by Seeing and Learning by Doing" --- to demonstrate to students how to critically evaluate different views, and to help students develop their analytical skills through practice. In his classes, we clearly see that he has accomplished this brilliantly. He is being given the Teaching Excellence Award for his innovative teaching and learning activities.

Since joining CityU in 2004, Dr Olivia Leung has been teaching over 900 year-one accounting students every year. She has also been involved in various projects to help year one students e nhance their English proficiency and attention span. These projects have impacted positively on the learning effectiveness of year one students of the Faculty as a whole. Dr Leung has been an active participant in the Outcomes Based Teaching and Learning Project. She has restructured FB2100 and has successfully delivered the course in the learning outcomes mode. Dr Leung aspires to cultivate a positive learning environment and be a role model and learning companion of students. Evidenced by the excellent feedback her teaching and her passionate performance demonstrated in the TEA exercise, Dr Leung has clearly met this objective very well. She is being given the Teaching Excellence Award for her outstanding efforts in motivating students and promoting effective learning.

Prof Tit-wing Lo is a charismatic teacher who has truly put his heart in teaching. His bold initiative in conducting counseling demonstrations in class has produced a deep learning impact on his students as demonstrated by students' comments on his teaching. He has successfully adopted the Western group therapy theories in authentic situations using his own students as clients. He believes that students will learn when they are given opportunities to reflect upon their own problems and find ways to adjust themselves to tackle the problems instead of keeping problems in a "recycling bin". From numerous notes of thanks from students who have benefited from Prof Lo's counseling and teaching, we have clearly seen that Prof Lo has achieved an excellent rapport with his learning partners and successfully developed students' competence in counseling by a risky, but highly effective, experiential approach. He is being given the Teaching Excellence Award for his effective strategies in promoting deep learning.

Dr Wisteria Cheung is a passionate teacher well liked by her students. She aspires to build up students’ skills and confidence. She has developed and used a wide variety of in-class activities and real life cases to enhance students’ learning. In addition, Wisteria has organized a host of co-curricular activities, including orientation and mentoring programs, leadership camp, personal development and career development camp, war game, sharing with alumni and practitioners, and study tours. Through her enthusiastic efforts, her students have become highly motivated learners. She has also demonstrated success in a teaching model that puts emphasis on aligning learning outcomes with teaching strategies.

Ms Julia Han is a Korean language teacher. With her belief that a teacher should seek to serve the students in a capacity that will promote their mental, emotional, and spiritual growth and encourage the students to seek new learning experiences and direct their own learning, Julia has been helping students to set their own goals and objectives of learning. She has developed innovative teaching methods, internships, in- and out-of-class learning activities to stimulate her students to learn. Julia has established and is running the entire Korean Language/Culture programme at CityU. Her substantial contribution to the University’s teaching and learning culture is commendable.

Dr Ron Kwok has contributed immensely to the enhancement of the first year students’ learning experience. Ron has organized teaching & learning forums for all instructors in the Faculty of Business who teach Year 1 courses. His coordination work in the BBA year 1 study has great impact on the teaching and learning culture in the University. Ron is proactive and competent in teaching with innovative technology. He has played a major role in pioneering the use of a "simulated organization" (e-Org) and the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to enhance student learning in the University. Ron’s teaching skills are excellent, especially in challenging contexts: large class and first-year courses. In terms of his relationship with students, Ron is a caring teacher who can inspire and motivate students with different backgrounds and learning abilities.

Dr Hongyi Sun has an innovative and creative teaching philosophy --- BALANCE:

• The academic content: a balance of technological and managerial issues
• The social context: a balance of globalization and localization
• Assessment: a balance between exam and non-exam components
• The STAR model: a balance between theory and practice

Hongyi integrates his research with innovative teaching. His excellent teaching is evidenced in the good teaching evaluation scores, supplemented by the favourable qualitative comments from peers, students and industrial partners. He has been actively developing courses in creativity and innovation management in the past years. These are valuable contributions to the University.

In recognition of her qualities as an exemplary university teacher, and especially for her systematic and scholarly approach to teaching with an impressive focus on student learning and on developing learning communities.

In recognition of his qualities as an exemplary university teacher, and especially for his sustained contribution to teaching and learning in the department coupled with scholarly and ref lective pedagogy.

In recognition of his qualities as an exemplary university teacher, and especially for his highly student-focussed approach, impressive and well considered mix of educational strategies and the use of web resources to achieve learning outcomes.

In recognition of his qualities as an exemplary university teacher, and especially for his strong commitment to teaching and your emphasis on enriching student experience of the practice of management through useful links with industry.

In recognition of his qualities as an exemplary university teacher, and especially for his deep understanding of pedagogical options and strategies with strong evidence of connecting theory with practice to achieve student learning outcomes.

In recognition of his qualities as an exemplary university teacher, and especially for her systematic and scholarly approach to teaching with an impressive focus on student learning and on developing learning communities.

For his contribution to the development of blended learning with innovative use of technology

For sustained commitment to quality teaching

For his all-rounded approach to teaching and learning

For her efforts relating to a wide range of valuable learning outcomes for students across a number of levels of study