If you have received a University Teaching Award more than five years prior to this year, you are also eligible to apply for the Distinguished Teacher Award. The successful nominee for the Distinguished Teacher Award must document continued excellence in teaching for the years since receipt of the original University Teaching Award.
Here is the information to add to your application packet to apply for the Distinguished Teacher Award:
- Make sure you list both the initial award you are applying for on your title page (e.g. Foundational Course Excellence, Outstanding Teaching in the Major) PLUS “Distinguished Teacher Award.”
- Make the answers to the following questions #5, unless you are answering one or more of the questions in the Optional Section. In that case, the Distinguished Teacher Award information should be #6 or #7. (If your initial award choice is the Outstanding Teaching in the Major Award, these will be the same questions, so we ask that you elaborate on your original answers.)
- What kind(s) of disciplinary expertise and ways of thinking do you help students to develop in your course(s)?
- How should they grow intellectually, professionally, and personally during the time they have with you?
- What methods or strategies do you use to help them develop in the ways you value?
- The answers for the above questions should be no more than one page in length.
- You may also add separate information to this section up to a length of five pages. However, this is not required.