At the first annual Common Core and Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Student Festival held on Apr 27, 2016, students blended their creativity into a huge showcase of talent. Teachers and students displayed and talked about their work and ventures, through which they have demonstrated their interdisciplinary innovation and prowess.
Thank you all for your excellent work and participation. See you again in the Student Festival next year!
Dear Colleagues,
As a way to prime the pump for next year’s Proposal Process—which will be modified and streamlined—we will have an informal gathering in the CC Lounge for those interested in the possibility of developing a Common Core proposal. We will be seeking, as always, the courses that you most want to teach that are for students across all the faculties, interdisciplinary and multimodal in nature, make use of active assessments, and are organized around issues of “profound importance.” We are also seeking courses that are highly experiential, use a flipped classroom or other alternative forms of design, and that align with one of our newly formulated “clusters”.
Everyone is welcomed! And snacks included….
All best,
Gray
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD
Professor and Director: The Common Core
The Common Core presents
Ever heard of the “Dr. Fox” effect in teaching? What do “top teachers” expect from their students? Are you aware of any stereotypes regarding HKU students and how they are addressed? Longing for a book club that combines pepperoni, pedagogy, and passion?
5:00-6:30pm Nov 26 (Thur)
The Common Core Lounge, Room 150, Main Building
Dear Colleagues,
The Common Core Curriculum (CCC) Committee will soon launch the 2015 Call for Course Proposals for the CCC. I will be hosting a Chat-n-Snack Session “Curious about Teaching a Common Core Course?” on September 17, 2015, to talk to interested teachers, informally, about the development of course proposals as well as the teaching of CCC courses.
All interested teachers are welcome to join.
All best,
Gray
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD
Professor and Director: The Common Core
Dear Colleagues,
I and all of those in the Office would like to warmly welcome both new and experienced tutors to the Common Core and hope very much that you will be able to attend one of the sessions of this semester’s workshop, Activating Learning.
We invite all of you who will be running course tutorials in the first semester to attend one of two orientation workshops to be held on September 1st or 4th, 2015 in the Common Core Lounge, Room 150, Main Building. We will work together on sharing ideas, tools, and methods to enhance active learning such as discussions, role-plays, making art, community engagement, and student projects. Several experienced tutors will also give us their input about how to keep the tutorials running most smoothly, as well as on questions of grading, enrollment, the Mysteries of Moodle, assessment, and increasing the pzazz factor.
B. Activating Learning
Date: 4 September, 2015 (Friday)
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Again, each day offers “identical” content, so although tutors are of course welcome to come on both days, given everyone’s complex schedules we wanted to be sure to provide alternative times.
Attached please find an invitation letter. For logistics purposes, we would appreciate it if you could register your attendance with Miss Emily Chan (chiting@hku.hk) by Wednesday Aug 19, 2015, along with:
Please, throughout the year, always feel free to write me with questions and suggestions for improvement, since you are the ones that live “most closely” to the student learning.
All best,
Gray
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD
Professor and Director: The Common Core
https://tl.hku.hk/common-core-curriculum/
+852 2219 4956
A Common Core Sharing Session was held on May 6, 2015 from 2:30 to 5:00 pm in Room 115, Knowles Building.
| 2:30 – 2:35 pm | Welcome – Professor Joseph Chan |
| 2:35 – 3: 15 pm | Highlights from External Examiners’ Reports – Professor George Tham, Dr David Pomfret, Professor Gina Marchetti and Dr Peter Cheung |
| 3:15 – 4:00 pm | Highlights from the SLEQ – Professor Grahame Bilbow and Professor Ian Holliday |
| 4:00 – 4:15 pm | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 4:15 – 5:00 pm | Next Steps – Professors Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Joseph Chan and Ian Holliday |
