NOMINATION FORM
* Required Fields
This nomination form is designed to help you document the candidate’s teaching performance and contributions. We ask you to list or summarize contributions in the different categories of educational leadership.
Click here to find some indicators of educational leadership. Note, this list is intended to provide helpful examples, and is not exhaustive.
- Demonstrates superior command of the subject being taught.
- Ability to teach well at different levels of complexity.
- Excellent planning and organization of course material, with appropriate links between classes, topics, laboratory sessions, and reference materials, textbooks or internet resources.
- Innovative course design.
- Material continually revised to maintain relevance.
- Effective classroom abilities; demonstrates enthusiasm; generates desire to learn.
- Handles a wide range of questions with competence and ease.
- Relates effectively to a diverse student population.
- Encourages original thinking and independent study.
- Presents course material at an appropriate level of insight and depth.
- Uses an appropriate range of technological aids and teaching methods.
- Relates subject matter to everyday life.
- Contributes to student success outside of the classroom - through advising, mentoring, encouraging intellectual growth, tutoring, consulting.
- Demonstrably enhances student learning, indicated by improved performance on exams, higher acceptance in graduate programs, increased numbers of students continuing in the program, greater success of alumni in the workplace.
- Contributes to curriculum design and development with new courses or programs.
- Creates original materials for teaching – course manuals, textbooks, audiovisual recordings, computer programs, lab manuals and others.
- Participates in research on university teaching; obtains a grant for research on teaching or educational innovation.
- Participates in workshops or courses designed to promote better teaching and learning.
- Helps colleagues with course design or teaching; mentors new faculty who are starting to teach.
- Receives invitations to speak about teaching and learning from other departments internal or external to the university.
- Is recognized as an educator of the public, through lectures and articles on radio, television, public events, or in the lay press.