Keynote Addresses
Professor Vivian Wing Yan LEE Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, |
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My Lesson in Teaching and Learning: TEACH and RCTTime:
9:30 am - 10:15 amAbstract:
At The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), we nurture our next generation to be the future leaders of our society, and young people learn and grow academically and morally. I am fortunate to learn how to teach from many outstanding and excellent teachers as well as students at CUHK. Today, I would like to share with you two acronyms - “TEACH” and “RCT”. My teaching philosophy is “TEACH” - Teamwork 團隊合作, Engage 積極參與, Action 委身服務, Commitment 無私承擔 and Heart 全心全意. Teaching is our promise and commitment to students coming from the bottom of our hearts through various actions, engagements and teamwork! In the book of Proverbs of the bible, it said “The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.” It reminds me the importance of a good teacher and how one man affects another.In addition, I believe RCT can co-exist: Research, Clinical Service and Teaching. Not only does RCT help me to achieve the teaching and learning objectives, it also motivates me to explore innovative ways for research and service development.
Biography:
Dr Vivian Lee is currently the Associate Professor of the School and Assistant Dean (Student Development) of the Faculty of Medicine. Before her current appointment, she had worked as a hospital clinical pharmacist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles, USA. Dr Lee received her bachelor of sciences degree in Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her doctor of pharmacy degree in the School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California (USC). She had pursued post-doctoral training in Pharmacy Practice residency at the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, USA.Dr Lee is dedicated for the clinical pharmacy development. She started the first clinical pharmacy clerkship program in Hong Kong as well as the overseas student exchange in clinical pharmacy with USC at CUHK. In addition, she tries to expand the roles of pharmacist through various innovative ways including the launch of the first interactive online drug information platform in Hong Kong-Ask My Pharmacist Online University Led drug Enquiry Platform (AMPOULE), the Paediatric Health: easy Access Resources on Medicines (PHARM) and the community pharmacy outreach program to cope with the demands of pharmaceutical care to improve medication adherence and chronic disease management in elderly patients of Hong Kong.
Professor Steven Sek Yum NGAI Professor, Department of Social Work, |
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Topic:
Service-Learning, Program Design and Student Outcomes:
The Experiences of a Local Service-Learning Program at Chung Chi CollegeTime:
11:15 am - 12:00 pmAbstract:
Service-learning, which provides a structured learning experience by integrating academic study with community service, is becoming increasingly popular throughout the world. It is seen as ideally suited to achieving both the personal and academic goals of students and the broader goals of civic responsibility and social justice in communities. This keynote presentation describes the design of a local service-learning program that we have implemented at Chung Chi College since 2000. Based on survey data collected from 94 students participating in the service-learning program, it then illustrates the impacts of the program on student learning outcomes. The results show that majority of the students have benefited in the following aspects: (1) By developing personal autonomy through real world experiences, the program develops within students a recognition and faith in their potential. It enhances their ability to be self-assured, to assume new responsibilities, and to achieve individual growth. (2) Students move to becoming responsible citizens and active agents of social change. As they learn to care for different deprived groups in the community, they are assuming meaningful roles and responding to real issues in ways that have long-lasting impacts on their own lives. Recommendations, based on the shortcomings we have witnessed and the changes we have implemented, will also be made.Biography:
Prof. Steven Sek-yum Ngai is the Professor at the Department of Social Work of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the Director of CUHK-Nankai Joint Research Center of Social Policy, and the Associate Director of CUHK Chung Chi College Service-Learning Centre. His research interests are in the areas of service-learning and leadership development, social exclusion and youth citizenship, mutual aid and youth empowerment, and qualitative research methodology. He was granted the Faculty of Social Science Exemplary Teaching Award in 2000.Prof. Ngai coordinated and developed the service-learning program of CUHK Chung Chi College in 2000, which was the first of its kind in the field of higher education in Hong Kong. Since the mid-2000s, his efforts have been extended to advancing the teaching and learning quality of service-learning programs in mainland China and Hong Kong. As such, he has been invited by a number of mainland universities and non-governmental organizations to provide training on service-learning pedagogy to faculty members from universities in East China and Guizhou Province. Moreover, he has been invited by the HKSAR Government to provide a series of service-learning workshops to secondary school teachers and their community partners. His commitment to the development of service-learning programs has also led to two important research projects commissioned by the HKSAR Government, including “Partnership Scheme of Other Learning Experiences on Community Service” (2008-10) and “Navigator to Community Service in Other Learning Experiences: From Experience to Learning” (2009).