Dr Zhang Ling: President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching in 2021/22
- 2022
- Honours and Kudos
- Department of Chinese Language Studies
Dr Zhang Ling, an Assistant Professor from the Department of Chinese Language Studies (CHL), has won the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching in 2021/22. Dr Zhang has been a caring teacher in both approaches to students’ personal care and academic care.
Dr Zhang believes personal care is the heartful motivation for a teacher to care about students’ self-esteem and well-being. As the Programme Leader for BA (Teaching Chinese as a Second Language) Programme, she made great efforts to enhance students’ whole-person development and better career path, which won students’ respect and appreciation.
Dr Zhang regards academic care as the strategical wisdom to enhance students’ school engagement and learning outcomes. She originally proposed the “‘CARE’ - ‘Creative’, ‘Adaptive’, ‘Reflective’ and ‘Effective’” model, i.e., academic care can be achieved through creative inspiration, adaptive modification, reflective improvement, and effective implementation. To be creative, Dr Zhang developed a creative educational app named “Classical Chinese Poems Sing Along (古詩粵唱粵啱Key)”. To be adaptive, she made appropriate adaptations to accommodate changing teaching modes and individualized learning needs. To be reflective, she kept reflecting on her most updated research methods and findings in her classroom teaching. To be effective, she adopted assessment-enhanced teaching and output-oriented supervision.
Dr Zhang Ling
Dr Zhang Ling showed her creative educational app named “Classical Chinese Poems Sing Along”
The interface of “Classical Chinese Poems Sing Along (古詩粵唱粵啱Key)” App
