Teaching Awards

 

I am a graduate of the City University of Hong Kong and have worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Accountancy since 2014. I believe that teaching is a two-way process. I treasure every teaching session as a learning experience in which I can collect feedback from students, improve my teaching methodology, and, in the end, benefit my students. My passion for teaching was fully demonstrated through tutorial sessions I conducted in the first-year accounting course.

 

In addition to teaching, I also participate in various research seminars and PhD experience sharing, which are valuable opportunities to gain extensive knowledge about the accountancy profession for my research in the near future.

 

I especially thank the Department for inspiring me to enhance my teaching methodology, particularly through class visits by senior faculty members. My teaching ability was recognized by positive feedback from students and I was selected as BBA First Year Tutorial Teaching Award winners.

 

Daphne (right) has received great support from her wonderful teaching assistant peers.

 

 

 

I am originally from Hanzhong, an ancient city in central China. I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Dongbei University of Finance & Economics and my Master’s Degree in Accounting from Wuhan University. I recently finished my PhD in Accounting at CityU. I am also a CPA in mainland China. I have been teaching the tutorial part of the Introduction of Managerial Accounting course for the past two years.

 

I am honored to have had the opportunity to tutor undergraduate students while I was a PhD candidate. In the past two years, I tried my very best to share my knowledge and understanding of accounting with them. I always looked back to the time when I studied managerial accounting for the first time and recalled what I was confused about and what guidance I needed most at that time. This process helped to clarify the nature of effective teaching. Unlike lectures, the main objective of the tutorial class is to help students to solve problems they encounter in assignments. However, rather than directly demonstrating solutions, I tried to guide students to build a framework for each topic step by step, and then to analyze problems using the framework. I think that the most meaningful and effective tutorial guidance is to help students to improve their study and thinking ability, which may benefit their whole study life. I hope that my efforts contributed to the students’ continuous development.

 

 

 

My teaching philosophy not only aims to transfer knowledge to my students but also to motivate them to learn more actively on their own and be sensitive to their needs. The most essential part of education is to inspire the students to pursue their goals by interaction and dedication to them. Thus, in the first class, I always ask my students, “What is your career goal?” I believe once a student knows what he or she wishes to pursue, he or she will work hard for it on his or her own initiatives. A fundamental challenge is to motivate students to become active learners. I always show a caring attitude toward the students inside and outside the classroom.

Birthday celebration with colleagues after work

I constantly re-evaluate my teaching method throughout the teaching semester and think about how I could tailor my method in some way to expand the students’ learning potential. I always think about how to motivate my students to strive for excellent academic results while also doing my best to be inspiring and supportive in creating an environment in which students can learn knowledge and discover their potential. 

 

With my passion in teaching, I am enthusiastic about helping my students beyond the classroom. I have an open door policy for my students and I am delighted to be approached for any consultation with them in my spare time. In my own view, a strong connection built up between teachers and students can help the students become more responsible and active learners in future.

 

 

I am a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Accountancy. I recently took up a position of Lecturer at Monash University.   I received the College of Business PhD Student Teaching Excellence Award 2016 and Outstanding Teaching Awards for Teaching Assistants 2016. I am grateful to the course leaders that I have collaborated with. Without their guidance in course development, the motivation of the students, and the time shared as tutors, I could not have reached these achievements.

I believe that to deliver high quality and professional teaching is an important mission for higher education. In my limited experience, the most important mindset I can have is to take the job seriously and focus on how I can better help students. This belief is reflected in the content preparation of every single PPT slide, my efforts to help students integrate their knowledge across chapters, my provision of additional consulting time to them, and my efforts to understand how they think.

 

I think that the advantage researchers have is that research can be applied to teaching, to show that knowledge is growing, and is not merely stagnating facts in the textbook. I push students to work hard and give them challenging tasks in the classroom.

 

As a PhD student and, soon junior faculty, I believe that the learning process is more important than the result. Sometimes knowledge and life skills can be transferred across disciplines.

 

In my spare time, I enjoy swimming, cooking, and volunteering.