ALTC Awards for Teaching Excellence and
the Prime Minister's Award
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The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) confers up to 27 Awards for Teaching Excellence. These awards celebrate a group of the nation's most outstanding university teachers in their fields. The awards give recognition to teachers (individuals and teams) renowned for the excellence of their teaching, who have outstanding presentation skills and who have made a broad and deep contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in higher education.
The winners of Awards for Teaching Excellence each receive $AU25,000.
The Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year is the premier university teaching award. The recipient is selected from those who receive an Award for Teaching Excellence. This award is given to an academic with an exceptional record of advancing student learning, educational leadership and scholarly contribution to teaching and learning. The winner receives $50,000.
Categories
There are eight categories of Awards for Teaching Excellence: five discipline categories, a category for Indigenous education, an early career category, and a priority area category.
- Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing etc);
- Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies;
- Humanities and the Arts;
- Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science);
- Social Sciences (including Education);
- Indigenous Education, for receipt of the Neville Bonner Award/s;
- Early Career; and
- Work Integrated Learning (Priority Area for 2008/09).
The Work Integrated Learning category should be interpreted broadly and includes situated learning, practicum, clinical education, work placement, cooperative education etc.
Eligibility
Nomination is open to all people with teaching or teaching/research appointments (full-time or fractional; continuing or contract) in eligible institutions. Each eligible institution may nominate up to eight individuals or teams for Awards for Teaching Excellence each year. Nominations from a single institution may include more than one nomination per category.
Both individual and team nominations are encouraged. Teams may be of any size. However, nominations may name no more than five members. A team name is strongly recommended for teams with more than five members.
All nominations must relate to teaching activities in higher education.
The Indigenous Education category is open to Indigenous and non-Indigenous academic staff. Nominees must demonstrate their contribution to Indigenous education.
The Early Career category is open to staff with no more than seven years experience teaching in a higher education setting. (This should be interpreted as seven consecutive calendar years and includes all tutoring, part-time teaching, and teaching at other higher education institutions.)
Previously unsuccessful nominees (CAAUT and AAUT) are eligible for renomination.
Awards for Teaching Excellence and Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning are distinct award types. Nomination for, or receipt of, a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning does not affect eligibility for nomination for an Award for Teaching Excellence. However, recipients of an Award for Teaching Excellence (CAAUT or AAUT) are not eligible to apply for a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.
Guidelines
The Guidelines page provides the information applicants need to apply for an award.
Nomination forms can also be found here http://www.altc.edu.au/carrick/go/home/awards/pid/59
Selection criteria
All nominees for Awards for Teaching Excellence will be assessed on evidence they provide in relation to the following five criteria.
Each criteria is given equal consideration.
UNE timelines for development of applications
Send Belinda Tynan a one paragraph statement and register your interest (there are no forms for this). List 2 referees who are prepared to be your nominators. No signature or statement is required from your referees at this stage. Belinda will contact you for further details and to ascertain eligibility.
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Selection panel will endorse nominations for full development based on the submitted statements.
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Nominees are required to attend a workshop briefing.
Date: 10 June 2009
Submission of full nominations to Belinda.
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The selection panel will provide feedback to the nominees and will decide how many of the nominations to endorse.
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Refinement of submission by nominees.
Date: 3 July 2009
Final submission of full nominations to ALTC Project Officer.
Date: 8 July 2009
Paperwork signed, collated and sent to ALTC.
UNE - ALTC Award Nomination Selection Panel
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Chair: Eve Woodberry
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Director Teaching and Learning Centre: Vacant
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Academic Directors (Faculty) x 2: Professor Belinda Tynan and Professor Kerry Dunne
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ALTC Project Officer: Lisa Cuskelly
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Previous Winners (where possible): Jennifer McDonell, John Scott, Josie Fisher, Tom Maxwell
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General Staff Representative: Cameron Barnes