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Distinguished Teaching Award

Purpose
The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes outstanding contributions by a college faculty member and P&A instructional staff member who enhances learning through classroom and/or field-based teaching, student advising and academic innovations.

Award 
Recipient will receive a $1,500 award and a certificate presented at the CEHD Spring Assembly and Recognition event in April. One award may be presented each year to an eligible faculty nominee and one award may be presented each year to an eligible P&A nominee.

Eligibility
Tenured and pre-tenure faculty, contract faculty, or P&A instructional staff with current appointments in CEHD may be nominated. An individual may not receive this award more than once; however, previous nominees who have not received the award may be re-nominated. All nominees must be an active employee in good standing at the time of the dossier due date. Nominees must continue as employees in good standing in order to receive the award at the date of the spring assembly in April.

Criteria
Successful nominees should have:

  • Evidence of solid accomplishment in teaching and advising: those direct student contact activities performed in order to engender learning, and directed toward goals that are usually specified in courses, curricula, and programs. Teaching activities include those that are conducted in tutorials, classes, seminars, retreats, and laboratories; supervision of individual students in practica, internships, service-learning experiences, research, and other student activities related to the academic program; and working with student organizations in a formal or informal capacity. Advising activities include both undergraduate and graduate student advising, as well as work with Master of Education (MEd) and post-baccalaureate students in CEHD programs, including, but not limited to, program planning, research projects, and career concerns. Accessibility to students is an important aspect of all such teaching and advising activities.
  • Evidence of solid accomplishment in academic innovation and program development. Those activities associated with the planning, design, or creation of alternatives (including materials, devices, techniques, procedures, and systems) intended to improve existing education practices.
  • Evidence of impact on students and educational programs through leadership, administrative, or other activities at the department, college, or University levels, and in regional and national discipline or professional associations.
  • Evidence of unusual breadth of involvement, i.e. extensive activities serving a program’s students, the college’s students as a whole or the University’s students.


Nomination Documentation

Nomination materials are reviewed by individuals who may not be specialists in the nominee’s field. Successful nominations document how the experiences of the nominee meet the criteria of the award. It is strongly suggested that the letters specifically address the criteria in the order they are listed. Please follow instructions outlined in the Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination Guidelines. [PDF]

Example nomination documentation from a previous awardee.

Nomination Forms

Reminder: all award nominations must be completed by March 1, 2024.


Selection Process

Nominations will be reviewed by the CEHD Honors and Awards work group, which will make a recommendation to the dean, who will make the final decision regarding the final recipient of this award.