Induction Programme for New Academic Staff 2018

Wednesday August 29th, 2018

16, 20 and 29 August 2018

The Staff Development Committee (SDC), Human Resources Office (HRO) and Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) jointly organised an Induction Programme with three half-day sessions for new academic staff on 16, 20 and 29 Aug 2018.

In Session 1, President Simon Ho gave a welcome remark to the participants and shared with them the latest development of HSMC. Then, Provost Gilbert Fong, Professor Y V Hui, Vice-President (Academic and Research), and Dr Tom Fong, Vice-President (Organisational Development) hosted the Forum on Teaching, Research and Student Learning at HSMC, during which they introduced teaching and learning at HSMC, funding and support for teaching and research, contributions to the College and student services. Participants raised questions and took part in the discussion with senior management members.

Experienced teaching staff and external experts were invited to conduct one forum and three workshops about learning programme accreditation and quality assurance, teaching and learning as well as e-learning at HSMC in Session 2 and Session 3 of the Induction Programme.

Positive feedback was received from the participants who found the Induction Programme informative, enabling them a better understanding of HSMC’s teaching and learning.

President Simon Ho gave the welcome remark and shared the latest development of HSMC.

The “Forum on Teaching, Research and Student Learning at HSMC” was conducted by Professor Gilbert Fong (middle), Professor Y V Hui (left) and Dr Tom Fong.

Forum on Creating a Welcoming, Positive and Productive Learning Environment was conducted by Dr Gavin Bui, Associate Professor of Department of English (left), Dr Wong Muk Yan, Associate Director (Common Core Curriculum) of CTL (middle) and Dr Holly Chung, Senior Lecturer of Department of English.

“Outcome-based Teaching and Learning (OBTL) and Criterion-Referenced Assessment – What, Why and How?” workshop was delivered by Professor Lilian Kwan, Associate Vice-President of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College.