Teaching

As a teacher educator, I aim to facilitate students’ exploration of their life meaning, enabling them to realise their full potential in their professional and personal growth. To achieve this, I try to create opportunities for students to establish meaningful connections between the knowledge and skills they acquire and their own aspirations, experiences, and contexts. When I see that students discover what kind of teachers they aspire to become, I feel incredibly rewarded. Ultimately, I hope my students will have a lasting positive impact on their future students by being role models and sources of inspiration.

Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2022-23

My teaching has been recognised by my faculty. I am hugely grateful to all students and colleagues for their support and encouragement.

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Values and Moral Education

This course aims to help teachers reflect on their own values and on the ways they teach values, especially moral values, in school. Among other important considerations, students are asked whether teachers should teach their own values in the classroom, and whether this is indeed inevitable. Taking education as a means aiming at nurturing human qualities for the sake of personal and social well-being, the course examines a range of values such as truth, beauty, goodness and sageness/ saintlness as embodied in ‘whole-person education’.

Ethics in the Teaching Profession

Professionalism is essential to practices of educators and there must be proper value orientations and solid ethical foundation for the teaching profession. This course covers issues related to law, professional ethics, values and conduct by providing an overview of professional standards for teachers in Hong Kong like T-standard+ and professional code. Case studies are used to examine the rights and responsibilities of teachers vis-à-vis other major stakeholders like students, employers, colleagues, parents/guardians, and to explicate the values and principles teachers can use to make ethical decisions and take ethical actions. Latest issues related to professional development such as education about constitutional order and national security are also addressed.

Structure and Process of Schooling

Schooling is an integral part of modern society. As active participants and contributors of this modern institution, teachers should have a thorough understanding of their roles in school organization and process of schooling. This course is designed to facilitate understanding of school organization and the nature of this process. It explores the nature of school organization and important dimensions of the schooling process from different perspectives: (1) at classroom level, in the form of teacher-student interaction; (2) at organizational level, in the form of school structure and culture; (3) at societal level, in the form of socializing and stratifying mechanism; and (4) at cultural level, in the form of selection and transmission of knowledge.

Teaching

Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award 2022-23

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