Teaching Experience
Teaching Philosophy
(i) Curriculum
- Goals and objectives of the curriculum, structure and content, and intended learning outcomes should be explicitly defined.
- Functionality, effectiveness, and potential inhibiting factors of the Curriculum should be periodically evaluated.
- Planned improvements should be based on the periodic evaluation from the students.
(ii) Teaching
- Learner-Centred Pedagogy: This pedagogical approach has many associated terms (e.g., constructivist, student-centred, participatory, active), but generally draws on learning theories suggesting learners should play an active role in the learning process. Students, therefore, use prior knowledge and new experiences to create knowledge. The teacher facilitates this process, but also creates and structures the conditions for learning.
- Quality and evaluation of teaching procedures, teaching materials and resources should be based on the periodic evaluation from the students.
- Periodic evaluation of the efficacy of teaching, understanding of positive or negative results.
(iii) Research
- Research to explore chemistry concepts facilitating active learning in the classroom and emulate to engage students’ interest (see publications in international journals 51, 52, 82 and 183 of the list of publications).
Teaching at Undergraduate Level
Since 1983 up to 2019 I have been teaching a variety of undergraduate courses including: (a) Introductory Courses in Organic Chemistry, (b) Organic Chemistry I, (c) Organic Chemistry II, (d) Organic Chemistry III, (e) Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds, (f) Laboratory Organic Chemistry I and Laboratory of Organic Chemistry II as well as a variety of elective courses including Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Advanced Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds, Research Assay, Diplome work.
Teaching at Postgraduate Level
- Since 1994 up to present I have been teaching a variety of postgraduate courses in the Department of Chemistry including: (a) Advanced Courses of Organic Chemistry, (b) Advanced Courses of Spectroscopy in Organic Compounds, (c) Advanced Courses of NMR Spectroscopy and (d) Laboratory of Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques.
- Since 2017 up to present I have been teaching in the interdisciplinary postgraduate program of “Medicine Chemistry” with the partnership of the Department of Chemistry, School of Medicine and the Department of Biological Applications and Technologies.
Teaching at International Postgraduate Courses
Since 2005 up to present I have been teaching a variety of postgraduate courses in students of International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Pakistan, Karachi, including: (a) NMR Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules I, (b) NMR Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules II.
Teaching Evaluation
The number of participating students in my classroom and in providing evaluation of the teaching performance, training, and stimulus is the maximum among all the faculty members of the Department of Chemistry. According to the results of the student opinion questionnaire, my teaching performance is well above the average of the faculty members of the Department of Chemistry (see below):
Teaching Evaluation of Faculty Member
(Average value ± typical deviation, maximum value: 5)
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