Graduate Dean's Awards for Instructional Excellence
This Award is available to graduate student instructors who demonstrate outstanding achievement in teaching. It presents academic departments with an annual opportunity to honor graduate students who have shown exceptional skill and dedication in their work. It is also a way for us to stress the importance we place on the undergraduate experience at CASE, by recognizing quality at another key point of student contact with this University.
Eligibility for this Award includes graduate students who assist with a course, a lab, or a recitation, or who assist with grading or tutoring. Furthermore, candidates for nomination must have completed, or be currently enrolled in, the non-credit course UNIV 400, which is a course required of graduate students who provide instruction for undergraduate courses.
Important Dates
- Nominations (self-, peer-, faculty-): Monday, February 16, 2009
- Faculty Recommendations Due: Monday, March 2, 2009
- Teaching Portfolios Due: Monday, March 2, 2009
- Final Nominations to the Dean: Monday, March 9, 2009
Nominations
Self-, peer-, and faculty-nominations are all appropriate and may be submitted to Kimberly Emmons, Director of Composition, until Monday, February 16, 2009. Please see the award announcement and recommendation form (Word Document).
Graduate students who are recommended will then be asked to submit a brief teaching portfolio for evaluation. Finalists will be chosen from those who submit portfolios and will be formally nominated to the Dean of Graduate Studies by the Chair of English and/or the Director of SAGES.
Students who are recommended for this award will be asked to compile a brief teaching portfolio, which should include:
- Statement of Teaching (1 page, max) that addresses teaching philosophy, classroom/tutoring experience, and evidence of teaching excellence
- Course syllabus (limit: 1)
- Sample Writing Assignment or In-Class Exercise (limit: 2)
- Student Numeric Evaluations (for any/all courses taught in the last 3 semesters)
- Student Narrative Evaluations (if available)
Nominations, Recommendations & Portfolios should be submitted to Kimberly Emmons, Department of English, 211 Guilford House, <kimberly.emmons@case.edu >.
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Past Winners
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2009 |
Cassandra Freudenrich (English/SAGES)
Samiya Ilmudeen (English/SAGES)
Danielle Nielsen (English)
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2008 |
Tasia Hane-Devore (English)
Brandy Schillace (English) |
2007 |
Gabriel Rieger (English)
Jamie McDaniel (English)
Liz Olson (Anthropology/SAGES)
Ken McGraw (English/SAGES) |
2006 |
Barbara Burgess-Van Aken (English/SAGES)
Iris Dunkle (English)
Kimberly Hyde (Art History/SAGES)
Chalet Seidel (English)
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2005 |
Ehren Pflugfelder (English/SAGES)
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2004 |
Darcy Brandel (English)
Narcisz Fejes (English)
Elizabeth Sirkin (English)
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2002 |
Heather J. Kichner (English)
Brenda Renee Smith (English)
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2001 |
Brian David Reed (English)
Bradley James Ricca (English)
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2000 |
Leslie Ann Kaplansky (English)
Traci Arnett Pipkins (English)
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