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Associate Prof. Dr. Imran clinches the title of "My Favorite Foreign Teacher" in 2019

Date:2020-07-27 Hits:270

Recently, the 2019 I and foreign teachers national essay competition and competition for My favorite foreign teacher activities came to an end. Dr. Imran Haider Shamsi, a full-time foreign Associate Professor from the Institute of Crop Sciences, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology of Zhejiang University, was selected as My favorite foreign teacher in 2019.


Under the supervision of the service department of foreign experts of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, People's Republic of China, the competition for My favorite foreign teacher is sponsored by the foreign talent research center of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and undertaken by Beijing Global Talent Exchange Promotion Association (Foreign teachers talent Professional Committee) and International talent exchange magazine, and co-organized by Beijing Xuebang Education Technology Co., Ltd.


With the active support and attention of Science and Technology departments (committees, bureaus, foreign experts bureaus), education departments (committees and bureaus), and relevant schools and units, My favorite foreign teachers were selected from the whole country. Associate Prof. Dr. Imran won the title and secured position in top ten.


Dr. Imran is a full-time foreign expert independently trained by Zhejiang University. Since 2012, he has shown excellent scientific research ability and loved teaching very much. He is engaged in teaching undergraduate courses, postgraduate comprehensive and ability training courses and undertakes the construction of English MOOC course online. He has an outstanding teaching ability. His international teaching style, teaching methodology with joy, debating and discussions have won the significant recognition from peer teachers and students. He has won the 2016 excellent teaching award from Zhejiang University, and won the title of excellent class teacher/mentor twice. In June 2016, he won the grand prize of the 9th young teachers' teaching skills competition in Zhejiang Province and in August 2016, he won the first prize at the third national teaching competition for young university teachers in whole China.


Being a foreign expert, Dr. Imran is also working for raising the internationalization standards, Belt and road initiative programs in the line of government policy and for China Pakistan cooperation etc. He has also been awarded the Honorary citizen nomination award of Hangzhou city by the Hangzhou Municipal People's government and the West Lake Friendship Award by the Zhejiang Provincial People's government, which is a top-level award for the foreign experts working in Zhejiang province. He was among the foreign experts' representatives working in China to participate in the reception for foreign experts on the celebration of 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in the great hall of people in Beijing. Associate Prof. Dr. Imran is also a class in charge of the Crop Science Belt and Road international class in the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology. He aims to cultivate and guide foreign students in the light of his own learning experience in China and intends to help them adapting the learning and cultural environment and let them grow into talents.