Faculty Teaching Awards

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Faculty Teaching Awards

• Getting started!
• Some ideas

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Programme

• Where to start
• CATL Example
• Renee Arnold (Project Officer, CATL)
• Online Nominations
• Kenn Martin (Senior Project Officer, CATL)
• Faculty Snapshots
• FNAS Medicine Dentistry
• Questions and Answers

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Where to start?

• Decisions to be made
• Timeframe centrally coordinated
• Categories
• Criteria Adopt the CAAUT
• Number of awards
• Prize money

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Timeframe

• Common schedule devised and circulated by Kate
  Hislop and agreed by all faculties.
• 2007 1 round of nominations in October for a
  period of four weeks.
• Advertising and promotion
• May, September, October

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Categories

• Keep It Simple
• Excellence in Teaching
• Undergraduate Early Career
• Postgraduate Small Group
• Team teaching
• Programs that Enhance Learning
• Excellence in Supervision
• Citations for Outstanding Contributions to
  Student Learning
• Other / Specialities
• Service to Learning and Teaching
• Specialties eg. Women in Engineering

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Criteria

• Must be aligned with the CAAUT criteria
• Awards for Teaching Excellence Criteria
• Approaches to teaching that influence, motivate
  and inspire students to learn
• Development of curricula and resources that
  reflect a command of the field
• Approaches to assessment and feedback that foster
  independent learning
• Respect and support for the development of
  students as individuals
• Scholarly activities that have influenced and
  enhanced learning and teaching

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Criteria

• Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning
  Criteria
• Distinctiveness, coherence and clarity of purpose
• Influence on student learning and student
  engagement
• Breadth of impact
• Concern for equity and diversity

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Admin Outline

• Launch
• Nominations
• Submissions
• Judging
• Results
• Ceremony

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Pre- Launch

• Online preparation
• Design and print nomination forms - ?
• Design and print flyers, posters, any other
  materials
• Design database (FileMaker Pro)
• Mailing preparation
• Schools / Centres

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Launch

• Advertising and Promotion Go!
• Materials displayed in key traffic areas
• Online promotion through web events, Guild and
  CATL
• All student / staff email
• Announcement Ceremony in Teaching Month (May 4)
• Generic posters from May (CATL)

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Nomination Period

• Managing nominations
• Eligibility issues
• - fractional / sessional employment
• - previous recipient
• - general / academic
• - self / peer / student nominated
• - number of nominations
• Database management
• Acceptance Packs letters, forms and support

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Submission Period

• Nominees invited to provide a submission
• Support available
• Workshops - CATL
• Faculty contact person (Admin / Projects)
• Past recipient / CATLyst

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Judging Panel Composition

• Dean (Convenor)
• Associate Dean (TL)
• Heads of School or nominee
• Student Rep (Student Society or Guild)
• Nominee of PVC (TL)
• Coopted Faculty Assoc Dean (TL)
• Faculty CATLyst
• Executive Officer

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Judging Preparation

• Book them early
• Coordinate times with all representatives
  (especially students)
• Judging instructions
• Assessment sheet and ranking sheet
• Briefing notes for Chair / Convenor

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Judging Process

• Assessment sheets collated ahead of time
• Ranking summary - top 10
• Ranked again out of ten to find a consensus
• General feedback on submissions to give to
  nominees
• Agree on policy on feedback

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Results

• Letters sent to un/ successful nominees
• Students notified via email and/ or letter
• Heads notified
• Results on faculty website/ intranet
• Notify CATL of award winners and HCs (for
  ceremony)
• Notify TLPU Exec Officer faculty nominees to go
  forward into the pool for CAAUT

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Where to from here

• Decide on
• Categories (around Carrick)
• Number of awards
• Prize money / mutual obligations
• Create formal documentation
• Guidelines, with criteria and submission
  requirements
• Including Judging Panel composition
• Circulate and put on web
• Create Project Outline and Implement!

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• Online Forms
• Kenn Martin