Title: Driving the Quality Improvement of Talent Cultivation in Higher Education through Teacher Teaching Innovation Capability Enhancement

Speaker: Li Xia (Professor, Ph.D.)

Time: 9:30-11:00, June 20, 2023 (Tuesday)

Venue: Lecture Hall ofYifu Building, BInhaiCentral Campus, TUST

All faculty members and students are welcome to participate actively.

Speaker Introduction:

Li Xia, professor and Ph.D. at the School of Foreign Languages, Nankai University, is a member of the Teaching Guidance Committee at Nankai University, director of the Digital Course Resource Research Sub-Committee of the Chinese Higher Education Association, and former deputy dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Nankai University. Her research areas include instructional design and implementation, enhancement of teacher teaching capability, and cross-cultural communication. Hostess of national-level open video course, first-class national course, and first-class online course lecturer, she isa leader of Tianjin’s “Effective Teaching NKET Team”and “International Talent Cultivation Teaching Team”, a recipient of the second prize of the National Higher Education (Undergraduate) Teaching Achievement Award in 2022 and of a pecialprize of the 9th Tianjin Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award in 2022 with two first prizes from the 8th and 7th Tianjin Higher Education Teaching Achievement Awards in 2018 and 2013 respectively. She is a Nankai University Teaching Excellence Awardee, achief trainer of the Nankai University Effective Teaching NKET Team, a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK, a chief editor of New College English Listening, Speaking, and Viewing (Higher Education Press, 2018) and Handbook for Effective Teaching Design and Implementation Based on Outcomes (Nankai University Press, 2022).

Lecture Content:

Addressing the key issues in classroom teaching in Chinese higher education, this lecture combines the research findings and teaching philosophies of effective teaching in international higher education. The Nankai University Effective Teaching NKET Team has independently developed a learner-centered, outcome-oriented O-AMAS effective teaching model and classroom activity design template, empowering teachers to enhance their teaching innovation capabilities, transforming the traditional disconnect between teaching and learning in higher education, and achieving “teaching with method” for teachers and “effective learning” for students. The O-AMAS effective teaching model adopts the OBE teaching design concept, including five components of Objective (O), Activation (A), Multi-learning (M), Assessment (A), and Summary (S). This model is outcome-oriented, driven by positive interaction between teachers and students, and through over a hundred effective interactive activities, aims to create a “classroom with smiles, light in the eyes, benevolence in interactions, and principled thinking and action”, thereby enhancing teacher teaching capabilities and driving quality improvement in talent cultivation in higher education.