In September, the Pedagogy Committee proudly hosted our annual faculty-sharing session, featuring insights from new teaching award winners. Since 2017, these sessions have been a cornerstone of fostering teaching excellence at SUSS SBiZ.
Tailoring Teaching for Diverse Learners
Dr Joyce Wang captivated the audience by sharing her strategies for teaching diverse learners. For UGs, Joyce prioritises clear explanations of concepts and uses application cases to deepen understanding. With PGs, who are often working professionals, she shifts to application-focused teaching, using real-world cases to capture attention. For executives, Joyce takes a consultative approach, engaging in discussions about their business challenges and collaboratively exploring solutions. Her experience underscores that teaching is not about repetition but about adapting to students’ unique needs and perspectives.
Building Trust
Dr Swee Won, who teaches cutting-edge finance topics like blockchain and cryptography, shared her approach to overcoming students' fear of coding-intensive courses. Swee Won encourages all questions (insisting that no questions are too trivial) and always finds time to address them. She emphasised that admitting when she doesn’t know an answer and finding answers alongside students builds a strong teacher-student bond. This collaborative approach helps students embrace the challenges of new technologies with confidence.
Practical Tips for Engaging Students
The panel discussion brought practical teaching tips from our award-winning educators:
- Ms Lam Chen Meng shared her use of Canva whiteboards for collaborative learning and how her team designed an award-winning study guide by focusing on reader experience, textbook neutrality, and annual updates.
- Mr Tommy Yee shared his experience with Padlets to keep students actively engaged and suggested tracking contributions to award participation marks.
- Associate Professor Amy Wong highlighted the importance of ice-breakers in online evening classes to energise adult learners after long workdays.
An Inclusive Community of Educators
This year, the session was hybrid, allowing more colleagues, including Associate Faculty, to participate. True to our belief that teaching is a social experience, the event concluded with delicious refreshments and casual chats, fostering camaraderie among colleagues.
We are committed to creating exceptional learning experiences for our students and invite you to join our future sharing sessions. Stay tuned for updates—your participation makes all the difference!
