i wanted to thank you for all the help that you have given me over the semester. frankly, nobody...
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I wanted to thank you for all the help that you have given me over the semester. Frankly, nobody would have been better than you as a mentor. You must have been really busy since you won your Award. I was obviously asking a lot and I don’t know how you could have found time to help me as much as you did. I am very pleased to be able to say that you are a former teacher of mine. (from presentation by Iain Hay and Mark Israel,
2008)
Mark Israel
Ron Smith
Making the best of it
Impact on you? Has the award lived up to your
expectations? What difference has the award made to
you?
Talk for 5 minutes Share for 5 minutes
Value of teaching awards At structural level CSHE Report, Australia (2005)
offering recognition & rewards to wider diversity of practices
raise priority given to good teaching support efforts of universities to
encourage culture of teaching excellence
awardees are resource for advancement of learning & teaching
At individual level Ballantyne et al. (2003) review
questionnaires to 40 recipients of AAUT (1997-2001) awards found
given participants personal validation and encouragement
contributed to winners’ reputation and credibility
caused teachers to reflect on their teaching practices
acted as incentive for others to improve their teaching
End of career scepticism, envy and resentment
Cheap labour Overwhelming
sheer quantity of requests perceived need to meet others’ high
expectations
Talk to numerous groups of potential, starting,
continuing & completing students lunchtime staff seminar to another
discipline at distant campus local community groups
Awards & leadership
Can teaching awards accelerate development of educational leadership incentive for academics before they
apply for award giving recipients greater authority
and opportunities to influence teaching
Used as status symbols teaching assessors drivers for change motivational speakers
Used to develop policy write grant applications mentor colleagues
Educational Change: Cultures Educational Change: Cultures
Higher education – scholarly approachHigher education – scholarly approach Carnegie scholars (US)Carnegie scholars (US)
Scholarship of teaching and learningScholarship of teaching and learning Inquiry projects (identify issues/concerns)Inquiry projects (identify issues/concerns) Study themStudy them Document approaches/resultsDocument approaches/results Share them with colleaguesShare them with colleagues