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Congratulations to the 2020 University-wide Teaching Award Recipients!

2020 University-wide Teaching Award Recipients

Dal's 2020 teaching award winners (clockwise from upper left): Brad Congdon, Paul Manning, Angela Crane, Jennifer Stamp, Rebecca Spencer, Joseph Tassone, Amy Bombay and Jennifer MacDonald.
 

Dalhousie Alumni Association Award of Excellence for Teaching

  • Dr. Jennifer Stamp (Department of Psychology & Neuroscience)

Academic Innovation Award

  • Dr. Angela Crane (Department of Chemistry)
  • Dr. Jennifer MacDonald (Department of Chemistry)

Early Career Faculty Award of Excellence for Teaching

  • Dr. Jennifer MacDonald (Department of Chemistry)

Award for Excellence in Education for Diversity

  • Dr. Amy Bombay (Nursing, Faculty of Health/Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine)

Contract and Limited-term Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

  • Dr. Rebecca Spencer (School of Health and Human Performance)

Sessional and Part-time Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching:

  • Dr. Paul Manning (Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture)
  • Dr. Brad Congdon (Department of English)

President’s Graduate Student Teaching Award

  • Joseph Tassone (Department of Chemistry)

Grants

Centre for Learning and Teaching grants are designed to support initiatives that have the potential to address student engagement and retention at Dalhousie University.  Faculty and staff members are invited to collaborate with the Centre for Learning and Teaching on the development of proposals for projects designed to enhance the learning experiences of students in any year of study. The projects may range in scope from Faculty to the classroom level.

Change One Thing Challenge

Nominate an engagement activity that you developed within the last 24 months and that is still part of your current teaching practice. One winner, determined by a review panel, will receive a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant for up to $1000 to support travel to a teaching and learning conference.

This grant is currently closed.

Learn more about the Change One Thing Challenge>>

Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grants

These grants will provide support for Dalhousie educators who are interested in engaging in projects to enhance teaching and learning, through the design and development of new or alternative approaches to enhance student learning at the course, department or Faculty level. The overall aim of these grants is to foster deep and impactful student learning and promote faculty members’ professional development of teaching.

This grant is currently closed.

Learn more about the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grants>>

Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant 2020

This grant will provide support for Dalhousie educators who are interested in adapting or creating an Open Educational Resource (OER), or who would like to investigate the impact of their use of OER on student learning at the course, department or Faculty level. 

This grant is currently closed.

Learn more about the Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant 2020>>

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants

These grants will provide support for Dalhousie educators who are interested in developing a project that studies, assesses, and/or evaluates the impact of a particular research question on students’ learning. This might include, but not be limited to, the development of new or revised initiatives, programs, courses, use or creation of open educational resources (OER), and/or methods/activities/assessments in teaching and learning.

This grant is currently closed.

Learn more about the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants>>

K. Lynn Taylor Educational Conference Presentation Travel Grant

This grant will assist in funding travel costs incurred by faculty who have been accepted to give a scholarly presentation at an academic conference with a focus on teaching and learning in higher education, or a pedagogical session (focused on teaching and learning in higher education) at a discipline-based conference. For this funding, scholarly presentations include presenting a research paper or a poster (finalized or preliminary findings), facilitating a workshop, or participating on a panel or roundtable.  

This grant is currently closed.

Learn more about the L. Lynn Taylor Educational Conference Presentation Travel Grant>> 

 

Awards

The Centre for Learning and Teaching administers the University-wide Teaching Awards. These awards honour those individuals who, through engagement and innovation, have significantly enhanced the quality of teaching and learning at Dalhousie University and beyond.

University-wide Teaching Awards

Annual deadline to nominate is January 31.