2007 ETA Details
The Excellence in Teaching Award committee announces the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Awards, through which we promote reflection and dialogue about the art of teaching and the quality of learning at Columbia College Chicago.
The committee will identify and honor two Columbia College teachers this year, one part-time and one full-time. The instructors will each receive an award of $4,000 and an engraved plaque.
Beyond identifying and rewarding individual excellence in teaching, this award process provides a way for the Excellence in Teaching Awards Committee to advance a college-wide committment to rigor and creativity in our approaches to teaching and learning.
To nominate a teacher, please click here:
(All nominations must be submitted by Friday, February 23, 2007.)
Excellent teaching at Columbia College:
Recognizing that excellence in teaching manifests itself in many different modes, styles, and voices, the Committee endorses the following five characteristics of excellence teachers (articulated here in language borrowed from Columbia's current instrument for soliciting student observations of teaching and learning.)
Excellent teachers:
(1) communicate subject matter accurately, clearly, and with enthusiasm; and they present, invite, and test multiple and balanced points of view;
(2) create communities of learners in which students can and do take intellectual risks and experiment creatively;
(3) treat all students with respect and consideration, responding appropriately to the individual needs of each student;
(4) stimulate the intellectual and/or artistic curiosity of students, fostering critical and creative thinking and problem solving;
(5) challenge, inspire, and support students to do their best work, to achieve more than might have been expected.
Eligibility:
All current full-time and part-time faculty members from all Columbia departments and programs are eligible for consideration in 2007.
Please note that because the selection process includes classroom observations, finalists ordinarily should be teaching at least one course during Spring Semester 2007. Exceptions may be made in cases of extraordinary merit, where there is a pattern of evidence from observations by students and colleagues documenting excellent and innovative teaching.
Students are encouraged to nominate their best Columbia teacher,
whether or not they are currently enrolled in one of that teacher?s classes.
Faculty members are encouraged to nominate their most respected and accomplished teaching colleagues.
2007 ETA Process and Timeline:
Nominations are due by Friday, February 23, 2007.
Nominated faculty will be notified by Tuesday, February 27, 2007.
HOW A FACULTY MEMBER CAN ACCEPT A NOMINATION:
To accept the nomination faculty must submit an Application Portfolio either via interoffice mail or by dropping it off at the Center for Teaching Excellence on the 8th Fl., 600 S. Michigan Ave., where a submissions box will be available, by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 2007.
An Application Portfolio consists of the following components:
1.) Written responses (200-400 words) to the following three questions:
- When and how do you find yourself most effective at inspiring student learning and achievement?
- What is your favorite lesson plan or assignment, and why? Please describe the assignment in answering this question.
- How do you create an inclusive learning community in your classroom mthat respects students' voices and needs?
3.) A copy of a relevant syllabus.
4.) A copy of your curriculum vitae.
5.) Your teaching schedule for Spring 2007 (if you are chosen as a finalist, the committee will visit you in the classroom).
The Excellence in Teaching committee will select a group of finalists by Friday, April 6, and will schedule a classroom observation with each finalist during the following three weeks April. The full-time and part-time recipients of the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award will be announced in the semester's final issue of the Columbia Chronicle on Monday, May 7, 2007.
Questions?
Please contact any member of the Excellence in Teaching Committee:
Lisa Gottlieb, Film & Video, Chair of ETA Committee
lgottlieb@colum.edu
Michelle Citron, Interdisciplinary Arts
mcitron@colum.edu
Frances Maggio, Theater
fmaggio@colum.edu
Sabina Ott, Art & Design
sott@colum.edu
Erin McCarthy, Liberal Education
emccarthy@colum.edu
Sam Weller, Fiction Writing
sweller@colum.edu
Regina Wellner, Liberal Education (Part-Time)
regina.wellner@myoasis.colum.edu
Administrative support to the committee provided by Joanne Hinkel, Program Manager for the Center for Teaching Excellence.