To promote teaching excellence at UIC and nominate outstanding young teachers for the 7^th Guangdong Teaching Contest for Young Teachers in 2024, we are pleased to launch the 2023 UIC Teaching Contest for Young Teachers. The theme of this contest is “Deliver a Quality Course.” Detailed requirements, guidelines, and scoring criteria are listed in the attachment. The rubrics are the same as the ones used for the provincial contest.

Eligibility:

1. Teaching staff under age 40 (born after Aug. 31^st, 1983).

2. Has at least one year of teaching experience at UIC.

Note: Teaching staff who have won first place in the previous university-wide Teaching Contest for Young Teachers cannot participate in this competition.

Based on the theme, the application materials include (also see the attachment)：

1. The course syllabus.

2. Classroom teaching design for 10 teaching hours (a table of contents is required and the template can be found in Guidelines Appendix 1-1).

3. Corresponding to the teaching design above, the continuous 20-min PPT slides for each teaching hour are required.

4. One individual one-teaching-hour class video recording (see Guidelines Appendix 1-2 for specific requirements).

Note: The standard length of one teaching hour is prescribed as 50 minutes at UIC.

How to apply:

1. Non-native Mandarin-speaking teaching staff is highly encouraged to submit the applications in English at the university-wide Contest. Participants are responsible for translating the application materials into Chinese when they are nominated to the provincial Contest.

2. Please log in to the Chaoxing Service System (Registration and Material Uploading System Operation Guide attached), submit all needed materials to the system (course syllabus, teaching design, PPT slides, and the video recording) by 23:59:59, November 6th (Monday), 2023.

Awards:

1. Award certificates and cash prizes will be provided for Grand Prize, First Prize, Second Prize, Third Prize, and Honorable Mention.

2. The top 15 participants will be recommended to participate in the contest at the provincial level. The result will be announced around mid-December 2023.

Please contact Ms. Arie Jin at 3620 692 or ariexjin@uic.edu.cn for further questions and support.