Teaching and Education (“teaching” for short) is one of the three areas of primary duties and activities to be considered when assessing the performance of faculty members. HKUST(GZ) agrees with the same statement of excellent performance in teaching as HKUST, which is stipulated in the Guidelines for Faculty Performance Assessment as follows:
Excellence in a faculty member’s educational role includes: excellence in the design and delivery of courses and educational programs; effective supervision that challenges students and enables them to produce first class work; productive engagement with students out-of-class; and a strong commitment to continued improvement in teaching performance as an individual and among colleagues. Excellent performance in teaching does NOT imply excellent performance in every dimension. In particular, early-career faculty should be evaluated chiefly on their capacity to deliver their own courses and on engagement with their own students, while excellence for senior faculty would include contributions and leadership across a broader role.
Teaching excellence is recognized by the Teaching Innovation Award. The University will also make nominations to different levels of Government Teaching Awards to recognize distinguished teaching staff or initiative. The Award recipients are expected to become “ambassadors of good teaching” to promote teaching excellence in the University and the wider local tertiary education sector.