Over the past year we have all been challenged with 'emergency remote teaching'. In this episode we chat with Susan Bridges, Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) in the Faculty of Education to make sense of where we have been and help us consider how language teaching units could position themselves into the future. This episode is hosted by Aditi Jhaveri and Phil Smyth.
In this episode our hosts from Poly U, Eric and Jessica take a deep breath and reflect on the challenges that they have faced during the past semester which was taught entirely online due to social unrest and the pandemic.
In this episode our hosts from PolyU chat with Tim Birkett from Hong Kong City University about issues with assessment and how colleagues at CityU have managed under the pressures of the past year.
The Hong Kong university community has faced a series of challenges over the past year beginning with social unrest in the territory and now the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode of the teachers lift our interviewers, Thomas and Levi explore how teachers new to the profession are handling the uncertainty of starting a teaching career in these uncertain times. Their guest is May Liao.
In this episode our hosts chat with Patrick Desloge, one of the original creators of the Teachers' Lift podcast. The episode gives a sense of why Teachers' Lift was formed in the beginning and discusses how a podcast might play a role in teachers' professional development.
In this episode our hosts, Jessica Xia and Eric Tindall chat with their Poly U colleagues Christine Burns and Jane Robbins who share their stories about the undergraduate course they developed called Storytelling for Life: Sharing Personal Narrative. https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/subjects/Syllabi/ELC1A07.pdf
In this episode our PolyU hosts, Jessica Xia and Eric Tindall chat with Andy Jarvis about the challenges that they have faced in adapting assessments as teaching has gone abruptly online due to social unrest and the covid-19 pandemic.
Episode 8: Teaching and learning in online communities with David Nunan by Teachers' Lift
In this episode we welcome two new hosts, Eric Tindall and Jessica Xia from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. They are talking to Bee Dy, an Instructional Designer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology about her experiences helping teachers go online and her advice for teachers being forced to jump online overnight.
Guests: Nick Noakes from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Grahame Bilbow from the University of Hong Kong. Forming communities of practice has been a major part of efforts in Hong Kong to enhance teaching and learning in higher education. In this special inter-institutional episode we are fortunate enough to hear from the directors of units working to improve T&L across our institutions. They reflect on how their background in language education enabled them to move int...
Episode 5: Service and experiential learning in uncertain times with guests Anna Ho and Carly Ng. by Teachers' Lift
In this episode Phil and Aditi chat with Sean McMinn from the Centre for Language Education at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Sean has years of experience teaching online and he has recently developed a new common core course in Digital Literacy. The conversations focuses on how to maintain student engagement when teaching online.
Darren is a Co-Project Leader of the Blended and Online Learning and Teaching (BOLT) Project at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In this episode, Darren discusses how the recent events in Hong Kong have impacted the need for online learning support. He also gives insights and advice about assessment in an online learning environment. https://www.bolt.edu.hk
In this episode of Teachers' Lift our hosts, Aditi Jhaveri and Phil Smyth chat with Ken Ho, Programme Coordinator of the English for Engineering Programme at the University of Hong Kong about the challenges and solutions to the need to shift abruptly to online learning.
In this episode of Teachers' Lift Aditi Jhaveri and Phil Smyth interview Tanya Kempston. Tanya is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong where she is involved with training English teachers. She specializes in Drama and runs an common core class at HKU in making and appreciate drama. In this episode Tanya shares some of the exciting practices she's been using to teach online in recent months.
