Faculty Professional Development

🔸Digital Teaching Resources: Provide instructional video recording tools and access to on-campus and external learning platforms.

🔸Subsidies for Digital Teaching Material Development: Provide funding support to enhance students’ self-directed learning and strengthen faculty effectiveness in online teaching, open course development, digital material production, and teaching-based promotion.

🔸Flexible Salary Scheme: To recruit and retain outstanding talent and support the development of institutional特色, faculty members may apply individually.

🔸Teaching Evaluation Support and Counseling: After student course evaluations are compiled by the Division of Curriculum under the Office of Academic Affairs, instructors whose single-course evaluation score falls below 70 must participate in workshops and counseling activities organized by the Center for Teaching and Learning Development. The implementation procedures are established by the Center. The results must be reviewed and signed by the Department Chair (or Program Director) and Dean before submission to the Vice President for Academic Affairs for approval.

🔸Faculty Professional Practice and Teaching Competency Assessment: Conduct assessments to ensure that faculty professional practice expertise and teaching competencies meet course requirements and achieve effective teaching outcomes.

🔸Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Communities: Support faculty in enhancing teaching quality and strengthening instructional practice through participation in teaching inquiry communities.

🔸Promotion of MOE Digital Learning Certification: Assist faculty in developing high-quality digital teaching materials and applying for Ministry of Education Digital Learning Certification.

🔸Teaching Practice and Faculty Professional Development Consultation Platform: Provide expert consultation to encourage teaching-oriented faculty to pursue promotion based on instructional achievements, guide differentiated faculty development pathways, and promote student learning outcomes as the primary objective of educational resource allocation.

🔸Innovative Teaching Courses: Encourage instructors to redesign course content in response to departmental specialties and student characteristics to enhance student engagement and learning effectiveness.

🔸Incentives for Applying and Implementing Teaching Practice Research Projects: Provide grants and subsidies to encourage full-time faculty to undertake teaching practice research projects.

🔸Health and Well-being Innovation Digital Micro-Video Competition: Encourage faculty to apply their professional expertise to produce short videos addressing health and daily-life issues of public concern, thereby showcasing the University’s特色 in the health and well-being field.

🔸Diverse Innovative Teaching Faculty Communities: Establish university-wide faculty communities centered on diverse pedagogical approaches, invite external scholars and experts as advisors, address instructional practice challenges, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty.