The Section caters to the individual and professional needs of university faculty to become better teachers' and promotes the development of a corporate network for good teaching amongst the university community. It offers opportunities for reflection, understanding, practice, scholarship, and advancement in the teaching-learning encounter and in the search for excellence within the university context.

The Teaching Development Section activities include:-

1. Meeting the immediate needs of new faculty, staff, and graduate students trhough Induction Meetings, Open House programmes, and Teaching Assistant Workshops.
   
   
2. Providing for continuing in-service development through the Programme on the Practice of Higher Education, other specialized Workshops/Seminars, and joint activities with other UGC institutions such as the Teaching and Technology Consortium Programme.
   
   
3. Identifying individual needs and providing information and support through a vigorous Faculty Visitation programme to cover the entire population of university teachers on an annual basis.
   
   
4. Offers a practice-focused, classroom-based, and personalised "Enhance Your Effectiveness" service covering a wide range of classroom observation possibilities tailored to individual teacher's needs.
   
   
5. Facilitating various projects on pedagogic enhancement and innovation through publicity, encouragement, advise, participation in problem/task identification, design, proposal development, implementation - such as the Actio Learning Project and other UGC-funded teaching development projects.
   
   
6. Establishing a corporate Network for Good Teaching via comprehensive surveys on teaching development amongst HKBU faculty, consultations with teaching departments, identification of active members who will invigorate others, and hosting of Teaching Development Camps and other meetings for interaction.
   
   
7. Attending to student characteristics and learning needs through the conduct of Student Profile Surveys, the offering of University Life study skills workshops as a requirement for new students, and the logistic and resource support for all teachers involved in the Mentoring Programme for first year students.

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