The process for Inspirational Teaching Awards is well underway. Students completing the Student Barometer were asked to nominate an inspirational teacher and/or someone who had made a similar contribution to their experience outside the classroom and a separate survey was made available to those students not covered by the Barometer survey.
A total of 4707 nominations have been received with 1426 individual staff/groups of staff nominations for either an inspirational teaching award or outstanding student support across the four faculties, and directorates. Each faculty will select a panel to consider Faculty awards and nominations for University Inspirational Teaching and Outstanding Student Support Awards. These are then considered by a separate independent University Panel who make the final awards.
For Inspirational Teaching Awards the panels make decisions based on criteria which focus on the impact the nominee has on student learning such as fostering enthusiasm for their subject and inspiring student engagement with learning. For Outstanding Student Support the criteria focus on the impact the nominee has had through the support they have provided, for example, providing exceptional support above and beyond what might normally be expected.
The announcement of this year’s awards will be made in mid-May, after the University Panel has convened. The awards will be celebrated at an awards dinner in July and at the graduation ceremonies in November.
For more information on this year’s awards and for details of previous award winners, please go to https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/ita/