Individual Award
(Early Career Faculty Member
Category)
Dr WANG Hui
王慧博士
Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling
In Dr Wang Hui’s teaching career at EdUHK, which began in January 2019, she has been
instrumental in shaping the educational journeys of many pre-service teachers. She has taught
more than 600 students in her five years of teaching practice. These students join Dr Wang’s
classes to learn strategies that will enable them to effectively address the diverse learning
needs of their future students.
Dr Wang’s teaching philosophy, encompassed in the acronym “MERIT”, captures the essence of her
comprehensive educational approach. MERIT stands for Motivation, Emotions, Retention, and
Innovation in Teaching. These principles encompass various aspects of pre-service teachers’
learning and professional lives and help them optimize their instructional skills. She uses a
variety of methods, such as multimedia resources, interactive class activities and games, to
enhance students’ understanding and retention of knowledge and prepare them to be effective
educators in the future. Dr Wang has also designed and implemented supplementary workshops that
equip students with strategies to foster an emotionally healthy classroom environment for their
future students.
Beyond her teaching endeavours, Dr Wang is also deeply invested in enhancing her teaching
practices through continual research in the MERIT areas. Her research and teaching are
interwoven, with both areas informing and influencing each other. This is evident in the work
carried out in her MERIT Research Lab, where she leads a team of doctoral and master’s students,
focusing on expanding knowledge on teacher motivation, emotions, retention and innovation in
teaching. The findings are used to refine and advance her teaching practices.
Dr Wang’s dedication to the integration of teaching and research has led to significant
advancements in the field of MERIT. In the five years since she joined EdUHK, Dr Wang has
received five teaching awards and three research awards, published 26 MERIT-focused articles,
presented at 28 conferences, and secured funding for 14 projects in the capacity of Principal
Investigator, totalling more than HK$4.2 million on MERIT-related topics. All these
accomplishments underscore Dr Wang’s commitment to professional development and her efforts to
improve teaching and teacher education.
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