Teaching Team (B1)
There are seven tutors involved in the B1 programme. They provide expertise support to your study in the seven modules. The tutors are experienced teacher educators and trainers in curriculum leadership programs. They act as support persons and first point of contact during the programme of study. Below is the tutors' information:
Dr. TSUI Kwok Tung is currently an Associate Professor of Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development at Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research interests include curriculum leadership, teacher leadership, teacher effectiveness and professional development. He had been appointed by the World Bank to be an International Consultant for the School Education Quality Assurance Program in Vietnam in 2008-09 and a nation-wide Primary Teacher Project in Vietnam in 2000. Dr. Tsui has been commissioned by the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government (EDB) to lead a team to train local primary school curriculum leaders since the inception of this Scheme in 2002. He conducted a large-scale survey on Curriculum Leadership and Management in Primary Schools contracted by the EDB in year 2010. Recently Dr. Tsui had finished a consultancy work for the Education Policy and Reform Unit, UNESCO Bangkok on the Education Micro-planning Toolkit project which is published (on-line) in 2014 by UNESCO.
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Dr. LAM Bick Har is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She obtained her degrees of bachelor in education and master in education from the University of East Anglia in the UK, and her PhD from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. LAM has taken up leadership of a number of pedagogical-based and teacher studies in such areas as ¡§formative assessment¡¨ and "innovative pedagogies¡¨, and a series of outcome-based education studies by the Teaching Development Grant. She is currently involved in a local study on the professional practice of expert and non-expert teachers funded by the Internal Research Fund, and an international project on adolescent¡¦s art between cultural borders supported by the International Society of Education through Art. Dr. LAM¡¦s most recent books include Learning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom (with S. N. Phillipson, 2011), Young people¡¦s visions of the world (co-edited with T. T. Eca and R. Kroupp, 2010), Curriculum Integration: An Institute¡Vschool Partnership Approach (2009). She was a syllabus writer and course developer for a number of undergraduate teacher education courses for the Open University of Hong Kong, and has been a programme leader and developer for Hong Kong government-commissioned teacher professional development courses. She has also developed the Active Classroom (A Class) as a study platform (http://www.ied.edu.hk/aclass/) for teachers to enhance professional teacher knowledge. Dr. LAM has been recipient of the Institute¡¦s Faculty of Education Studies Excellence in Teaching Award 2009/10 (http://www2.ied.edu.hk/ci//news_20100908.htm) and the President¡¦s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching 2011/12 (http://www2.ied.edu.hk/ci/news_20120507.htm). She was nominated by the Institute for the Inaugural University Grants Committee Teaching Award in 2011 (http://www2.ied.edu.hk/ci/news_20111013.htm) and was awarded a certificate by the UGC for being one of the six finalists for the UGC Teaching Award 2011.
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Dr. LEUNG Wai Lun, Anthony
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. His research and publication interests include curriculum reform and change, curriculum organization and integration, curriculum implementation, project learning, liberal studies, and small class teaching. Dr. LEUNG was on the list of Independent School Reviewers (ISR) maintained by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong from 2006 to 2009. Dr. LEUNG was appointed as an external examiner of Doctor of Education thesis by the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Australia in 2010. Dr. LEUNG is currently appointed as an External Course Examiner by the Open University of Hong Kong.
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Dr.
NG Cheuk Wing, Margaret
is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. She received her Doctor of Education degree from the University of Bristol, U.K., following the completion of Master of Education (with Honours) from the University of Western Australia, and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) from the University of Alberta, Canada. She obtained her teaching qualification from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, she worked as the Assistant Project Manager (Curriculum Development) of the ¡¥Centre for Research in Interdisciplinary and Liberal Studies¡¦ at the Institute as well as a Part-time Lecturer of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education in higher education of Child Care and Education. Dr. NG is actively involved in school-based management that she has been a school manager of six primary and secondary schools and a member of the Primary, Secondary and Continuing Education Committee of the Baptist Convention of Hong Kong since July 2006.
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Dr.
NGAN Ming Yan
was a primary school teacher for years before going into teacher education at The Hong Kong Institute of Education. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. His research interests include assessment and evaluation, school and teacher change, school culture, curriculum development, extra-curriculum activities, and mathematics education. In the past few years, he has been extensively involved in Hong Kong and Macau government commissioned research studies into schooling and curriculum development. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 2007, National Normal University of Taiwan in 2004, and Visiting Research Fellow at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia in 2007. He has served on government committees for local primary school reviews and chaired the Hong Kong primary mathematics curriculum committee. He contributes to improving the quality of Hong Kong schools as a secondary school supervisor, school management board member, and as a senior scouter in Hong Kong Scouting Movement.
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Dr. YEUNG-YEUNG Sze Yin, Shirley is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. She has valuable experiences and contribution to teacher education in Hong Kong. With a vision to develop an evidence-based profession, she works closely with local schools as collaborative partners by taking active roles as curriculum and research consultants, external school reviewers and guest speakers for teacher development. Her expertise knowledge to school curriculum innovation is well received by local educational practitioners. She has been leading a number of school-based research projects related to action research on implementation of higher-order thinking in small class settings, student-centered approach in regular classrooms, inquiry-based curriculum development, curriculum experimentation to cater for diversity in classroom, quality homework and student portfolio, etc. Her recent academic pursuits include studying the implementation of higher-order thinking curriculum in regular and small class teaching settings, evaluating the impact of School Self Evaluation (SSE) and External School Review (ESR) policy to school curriculum and teaching. Dr. YEUNG frequently presents papers in local and international conferences. She has published book chapters as well as articles on local, regional and international journals. Besides, she constantly reviews articles for local and international journals.
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