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SAUWS 21st Century Teaching Awards
Welcome to the Students' Association of the University of the West of Scotland's "21st Century Teaching Awards"! The awards are being introduced to recognise and reward teachers who go above and beyond to make a students time at university enjoyable. The Students’ Association strongly believes that teaching staff have an immense impact on the student experience and hopes that these awards will be recognition to those individuals who have a life long impact on the students they teach.
So go on, get nominating!! (click here to make a nomination)
There are ten awards up for grabs. To see a description of the award, click on the award title, and if you have some one in mind after reading the description, then click on the links to nominate them.
The awards are;
- Best Personal Tutor
- Fantastic Feedback
- Promoting Employability
- Best Supervisor
- Interactive Teaching Award
- Be Inspired Award
- Most Organised Module
- Most Nominated School
- 21st Century Teaching Award
- Lecturer of the 21st Century
Finally, if any of the staff which you nominate win, or are runner up for the award, would you like to attend the awards ceremony in April to see them be presented with their award? If you would then indicate this on the form(s) you submit
Best Personal Tutor
This award aims to recognise the best Personal Tutor of 2009-2010. A great Personal Tutor could be someone who is helpful and friendly, someone who makes time to meet with students, or someone who tries to work around the students’ schedule.
Fantastic Feedback Award
This award aims to recognise a teacher who gives outstanding feedback. Great feedback should be prompt, as well as helpful. Perhaps a teacher suggests areas of improvement, and how these could be improved? There feedback should be constructive. Do they provide feedback in a way which suits you? One thing is for sure, the winner of this award should give more than just a grade!
This award aims to recognise a teacher who helps students to understand, and actively promotes, skills which will make a student more employable. These could be skills specific to your career, or more general skills called transferable skills eg. Problem solving, negotiating, expressing ideas or critical evaluation.
They could also be a teacher who is always happy to talk to students about career options and requirements, or who offers advice on how a student could gain the required experience for their chosen career.
This award aims to recognise a supervisor who shows a commitment and ability in helping students undertake a piece of self directed research. A good supervisor could be someone who is helpful, friendly and approachable. They should make time to meet with their students and try to schedule meetings at times which suit their students. The supervisor could also respond reasonably quickly to emails and try their best to answer a students’ questions about their research
This award aims to recognise the teacher who aims to hold classes, tutorials, seminars etc. in an interactive style. They may conduct lessons with plenty of time for students to ask questions throughout, or encourage student discussion or other interactive learning techniques.
This award aims to recognise Lecturers or tutors who through inspirational teaching, inspire students to further develop knowledge of a subject area outside of class time. The winner of this award could be passionate and enthusiastic about their subject area, and this could show in their teaching, inspiring you to feel the same about the subject.
This award aims to recognise the module which is the most organised. The organisation of a module can include room changes being publicised to students well in advance, the learning outcomes from the module being made clear to students and the assessment methods and time frames of the module being made clear to students as early as possible. This award will go to the module co-coordinator of the winning module.
This award will recognise the School who is nominated the most. Relative size of schools will be taken into account when deciding the winner of this award.
21st Century Teaching Award
This award aims to recognise lecturers or tutors who bring their subject alive by using unusual or innovative teaching methods. Innovative teaching methods should help students engage with their learning by making the issues interesting in a way that it may not have been before.
Lecturer of the 21st Century
This award aims to recognise lecturers, tutors or supervisors who students think perform highly overall. The winner of this award could be well organised, use innovative teaching methods, provide detailed and timely feedback, be approachable and friendly, provide help outside of class time or promote employable skills.
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