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Teaching Portfolio Workshop Series

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Event Details

Remark The workshop will be cancelled if there are bad weather circumstances (e.g. typhoon signal 8 or above, or black rain is hoisted or in force at or after 6:00am) on Thursday, 25 September, and will be rescheduled for this Friday, 26 September 2025 (12:00pm – 1:45pm) at the Learning Lab, RRS321, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus

Date : 6 Jun (Fri) & 25 Sep (Thu) 2025

Time :

[Workshop 1] 12:30pm – 2:00pm (HKT)
[Workshop 2] 12:00pm – 1:45pm (HKT)

Venue : Learning Lab (RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

Abstract

Two teaching portfolio workshops will be offered. The workshops are open to all teaching staff who are interested in finding out more about compiling teaching portfolios, which are often required for promotion, tenure application, and job applications. How to compile a portfolio for applying for the University’s Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) will be covered in the second workshop scheduled in September. You can choose to attend the workshop(s) depending on your needs. For instance, it is not necessary to attend Workshop 1 before Workshop 2.

The maximum quota for each workshop is 25 participants. Once the maximum quota is reached, you may join the waiting list via the same registration link. Rest assured, you will be contacted immediately if spots become available.

[6 Jun 2025] Compiling a Teaching Portfolio

Date : 6 Jun 2025 (Fri)

Time : 12:30pm – 2:00pm (HKT)

Venue : Learning Lab (RRS 321 Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

Facilitator : Dr. Jannie Roed, Director, TALIC, HKU

Abstract

All academics have a curriculum vitae (CV), but few have a teaching portfolio. This workshop focuses on how to structure a teaching portfolio, what to include (e.g., reflections on professional development and leadership initiatives you have undertaken), and how to collect evidence of teaching effectiveness.

[25 Sep 2025] Presenting a Teaching Portfolio for a Teaching Excellence Award

Date : 25 Sep 2025 (Thu)

Time : 12:00pm – 1:45pm (HKT)

Venue : Learning Lab (RRS 321 Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

Guest Speaker : Ms. Tanya Kempston, PGDE Programme Director and Senior Lecturer, Academic Unit of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, HKU

Consultants :

Dr. Law Ka Ho, Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) and Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, HKU
Dr. Mei Li Khong, Lecturer and Digital Education Consultant, School of Biomedical Sciences and School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
Ms. Stephanie Biedermann, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, HKU

Facilitator :

Dr. Jannie Roed, Director, TALIC, HKU
Prof. Lillian Luk, Assistant Professor, TALIC, HKU

Abstract

The first hour of the workshop focuses on the specific teaching portfolio needed to apply for one of the University’s teaching excellence awards. You will be guided through the criteria and advised on how to present your case in the most effective manner. The workshop will also cover the next steps for unsuccessful candidates.

In the following 45 minutes, three Teaching Excellence Award (TEA) winners – Dr. Law Ka Ho, Dr. Mei Li Khong and Ms. Stephanie Biedermann will share with us their experiences in applying for the award. After the sharing session, they will be available for small-group consultations. To help us distribute participants evenly, please indicate your preferred consultant in the registration form. We will do our best to accommodate to your preference.

About the Guest Speaker

Ms. Tanya Kempston is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Programme Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programme in her Faculty. She has been teaching at HKU since 2008 and was awarded the University Teaching Innovation Award in 2021 and University Outstanding Teaching Award in 2018.

About the Consultants

Dr. Law Ka Ho is the Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) and a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science. He is the winner of the 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award.

Dr. Mei Li Khong (SFHEA) is the Lecturer / Digital Education Consultant at the School of Clinical Medicine and School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Her involvement at HKU has broadened to medical education more generally, ranging from transdisciplinary projects to incorporating blended learning into the medical curriculum through modified flipped classrooms, redesigned online learning environments, and optimised educational technology. Dr. Khong is involved in multiple teaching development projects. In these projects, she is especially passionate about exploring the possibilities of student-educator partnership in teaching and learning, where students and faculty collaborate to co-design curriculum and pedagogy. She advocates using the transformative potential of student-educator partnership in shifting learning perspectives and bringing about student-centred improvements to a curriculum. She is currently spearheading the student-educator partnership initiative in curriculum development and pedagogical innovations, across the LKS Faculty of Medicine. Her team’s overarching initiative on student-educator partnerships and interdisciplinarity was awarded Global Bronze and Global Silver in QS Reimagine Education Awards 2023 and 2024, respectively. She is also the recipient of the Early Career Teaching Award 2022, Teaching Innovation Award 2023, and Faculty Teaching Medal 2024.

Ms. Stephanie Biedermann is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and is a US-licensed lawyer. She was awarded the Early Career Teaching Award at the University’s Teaching Excellence Awards 2024.

She specializes in international law, immigration, forced migration, and discrimination issues, particularly for refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrant workers. Her legal experience includes work in the US, the Middle East, and Hong Kong, with a focus on public interest law and access to justice issues as they relate to individual client services, policy decisions, and the development of clinical opportunities for law students.

At HKU, Stephanie teaches across a variety of subject areas. She has helped build the Law, Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship (LITE) program, which creates opportunities for students to gain practical and transactional experience in Hong Kong, research relevant legal issues, and assist local companies and NGOs. She also teaches courses in human rights, refugee law, and legal writing and research.

Stephanie holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a B.A. in English from Princeton University, and is admitted to the State Bar of California, USA.

Dr. Law Ka Ho is the Associate Head (Teaching & Learning) and a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science. He is the winner of the 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award.

Dr. Mei Li Khong (SFHEA) is the Lecturer / Digital Education Consultant at the School of Clinical Medicine and School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU).