1. ‘Nurturing Future Educators and Social Leaders’ through curriculum innovation

As the sole university with a primary focus on teacher education in Hong Kong, we aim to nurture competent teachers who in turn will make a difference in the coming generations, thus creating a virtuous circle to ensure the continuous and sustainable betterment of the community. As we extend our expertise in Creative Arts and Culture, Humanities and Social Sciences, our graduates of these disciplines complementary to education will put their knowledge and skills to good use in their careers.

These positive outcomes require a curriculum that is innovative in ways that can accommodate changing societal needs and community demands. Also, our curriculum must prepare our students for careers and lives that will require of them a broad range of academic expertise and exceptional personal qualities and values. For continuous enhancement, we have put in place relevant mechanisms including evaluation surveys and formal/informal feedback to monitor students’ educational experience. We also conduct reviews on our curriculum and related policies as necessary to keep pace with the changing needs and expectations of the education sector and community at large.

In brief, we will:

  • support students’ achievement of the Generic Intended Learning Outcomes that meet the professional and language standards appropriate to future social and career needs;
  • enhance our trilingual language support in English, Chinese and Putonghua, and provide foreign language classes e.g. in French, Japanese and Korean as one form of multi-cultural education and promotion;
  • ensure students undergo a meaningful formal and non-formal learning experience with the goal of whole person development;
  • further develop students’ interdisciplinary learning experiences to help them cope with the prominent social, community and educational issues of the 21st century;
  • internationalise the curriculum to ensure its relevance to a globalised world;
  • enhance the curriculum to meet the changing global/local developments and community needs;
  • promote research training in undergraduate teaching; and
  • obtain full self-accrediting status for disciplines complementary to education, and develop programmes benchmarked at international standards.
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