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Using Video-based Noticing to Develop Pre-Service Teachers’ STEM Conception and Self-Efficacy of Teaching STEM in a Teacher Education Course

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Principal Investigator (2018-2020). This study explores the impact of teachers’ video-based noticing on what pre-service teachers find significant, the interpretations and pedagogical considerations they make in the teaching of STEM, their STEM conception, and self-efficacy of teaching STEM. Funded by Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant for Research ($80,000 HKD). Research Output: Ng, O., & … Continue reading Using Video-based Noticing to Develop Pre-Service Teachers’ STEM Conception and Self-Efficacy of Teaching STEM in a Teacher Education Course

Using Emergent Technologies to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of STEM in Hong Kong’s Secondary schools

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Principal Investigator (2016–2018). The purpose of this research is identify the growth of teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and the development of students’ mathematical thinking as they are influenced by emergent technologies. (Co-I: Dr. To Chan) Funded by Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant for Research ($40,000 HKD). Research Output: Ng, O., & Chan, T. … Continue reading Using Emergent Technologies to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of STEM in Hong Kong’s Secondary schools

Teacher Interventions in Engaging Students with Dialogic Discourse for Rich Learning Opportunity in Mathematics Classrooms

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Co-Investigator (2016–2019). This research investigates the effect of a teacher intervention program in engaging students with rich classroom discourse and rich learning opportunities in Hong Kong primary mathematics classrooms. (PI: Dr. Ni Yujing; Co-Is: Dr. Jinfa Cai, Dr. Alan Cheung, and Dr. Gaowei Chen) Funded by Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, General Research Fund ($736,500 HKD) … Continue reading Teacher Interventions in Engaging Students with Dialogic Discourse for Rich Learning Opportunity in Mathematics Classrooms

3D Printing Technology: New Ways of Teaching, New Modes of Learning

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Principal Investigator (May- August 2016). The goal of this project is explore the affordances of a 3D drawing (printing) environment in the learning of school mathematics, upon which to provide some speculations of how this may help to open new curriculum possibilities in mathematics. Funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-doctoral … Continue reading 3D Printing Technology: New Ways of Teaching, New Modes of Learning

Using Dynamic Geometry to Enhance the Learning of Calculus

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Principal Investigator (2014-2016). The goal of project is to examine how a dynamic, touchscreen environment may influence calculus thinking and support communication for students with diverse linguistic backgrounds. Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship ($40,000 CAD). Funding awarded for a full-time doctoral research (Oi-Lam Ng) at Simon … Continue reading Using Dynamic Geometry to Enhance the Learning of Calculus

Teachers’ Noticing as an Action Research Method: A Flipped Classroom Approach for Enhancing Video-based Noticing in Teacher Education

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Project Supervisor (2017-2018). The aims of this project are to support the university’s eLearning strategy, by promoting an innovative instant commenting feature for students to practice active learning in and out-of-class. The topics covered in the micro-modules are meant to improve students’ noticing ability in their current and future professional practice as educators—an important learning … Continue reading Teachers’ Noticing as an Action Research Method: A Flipped Classroom Approach for Enhancing Video-based Noticing in Teacher Education

Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in STEM University Education

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Collaborator (2017-2021). This UGC  Teaching and Learning (T&L) project aims to explore and develop active learning pedagogies to increase student engagement in STEM education, as well as to construct valid, rigorous and quantitative methods to evaluate active learning on student learning outcome in STEM education. (Project leader: Dr. Fridolin Ting) Funded by University Grant Committee of … Continue reading Developing Active Learning Pedagogies and Mobile Applications in STEM University Education

PEDU 6406 – Action Research in Education

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Graduate course. The conception of teachers as reflective practitioners and as transformative intellectuals has gained wide recognition in the field of education. This course is designed to familiarize students with the nature of action research in reflective and critical perspectives. It also aims to provide students with guidelines in developing their own action research plans … Continue reading PEDU 6406 – Action Research in Education

BMED 3060 – Teaching of number and number sense

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Undergraduate course. Focuses on the understanding and cultivation of number and number sense, school children’s learning of basic quantitative skills, from counting objects to the four rules of arithmetic, both in exact calculations and in estimation. Related topics include: mathematics content knowledge, psychology of learning, pedagogical approaches, and epistemological relationships between mathematical concepts involved. (Fall 2016; … Continue reading BMED 3060 – Teaching of number and number sense

MAED 6161 – Teaching and Learning Mathematics in the Changing Curriculum

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Graduate course. This course offers an introduction to the theoretical aspects of mathematics teaching and learning in face of the challenge from the ever-changing mathematics curriculum. It will provide an overview of both cognitive and socio-psychological issues involved in both the teaching and the learning of mathematics from the perspective of contemporary mathematics education research … Continue reading MAED 6161 – Teaching and Learning Mathematics in the Changing Curriculum