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Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA)

A complete submission should include:

 

**  Any staff member who has received the ATEA three times (since AY 2003/2004) will be placed on the Honour Roll and will not be eligible for the ATEA for the next 5 years.

##  FTEC can choose to use either format (template or straight prose) but those using straight prose should try to cover as many of the categories listed on the set template.

 

Outstanding Educator Award (OEA)

A complete submission should include:

 

**  Any staff member who has received the OEA award previously will not be eligible for the OEA for the next 5 years.

##  FTEC can choose to use either format (template or straight prose) but those using straight prose should try to cover as many of the categories listed on the set template.

Guidelines for Preparing a Teaching Portfolio

Note to all nominees:
This list is meant as a set of helpful pointers; it is not a set of obligatory items for every portfolio. A Teaching Portfolio makes a case for the quality of teaching you provide. You can make the portfolio effective by viewing it as a "research article" that makes a claim on the quality of your teaching and is supported by persuasive justification with documented evidence.

Length: no more than 20 pages (in Times New Roman pt 12, single line spacing), excluding the appendices.

1.

Quality of teaching I:

Direct impact on student learning (inside and outside the classroom)

  1. Learning outcomes and their value. Identify the most important learning outcomes you expect your students to achieve through your teaching.

  2. Instructional methodologies employed in your modules to attain these outcomes, including their effectiveness and efficiency.

  3. Other means used to attain these goals: module syllabus, teaching materials, learning tasks, assessment tasks, and so on, specifying how these goals were accomplished.

  4. Spread of modules taught or co-taught in terms of topics, levels and class size.

  5. Other channels of direct impact (e.g. supervision, tutorials), and what you accomplished through them.

Note: Items a) and b) refer to your ‘teaching philosophy’.

2.

Quality of teaching II:

Indirect impact on student learning

  1. Contributions to curriculum development at the modular and/or programme levels, with a discussion of their value in terms of achieving the learning outcomes.

  2. Contributions to the development of published or unpublished instructional materials, with a discussion of their value and use by others.

  3. Contributions to the improvement of teaching (within and/or outside NUS) through talks, workshops, articles, books, etc., with a discussion of their impact on the teaching community and/or educational system. If published, please indicate the standing of these journals/publishers.

3.

 

Efforts at ongoing self-improvement, in terms of:

  1. Responses to both positive and negative student feedback.

  2. Efforts at systematic self-evaluation, by seeking feedback from students beyond official platforms, comments from peers, 'research' on one's teaching, etc.

  3. Changes in one's teaching based on such self-evaluation, and future plans. (e.g. Did you find any aspect of teaching particularly challenging in the past year? How do you intend to face it?)

  4. Attendance at teaching workshops/seminars and/or conferences.

  5. Evidence of improvement.

4.

 

Teaching awards and other commendations, records of students who succeed in advanced study in the field, etc.

Appendices:

  1. All official student feedback for the relevant period.

  2. Peer Reviews for the relevant period.

  3. (i) Please include no more than 2 detailed module folders, providing clear evidence for the claims stated in (1) to (4) where relevant, and/or (ii) key examples of teaching-learning materials and/or assessment tasks not included in the module folders.

For more information on the Teaching portfolio, visit http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/cdtlhome/portfolio.htm

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Guidelines for Preparing a Module Folder

Note to all nominees:
The module folder is not just a compilation of Powerpoint slides, lecture notes, tutorial schedules, assignments and so on. It should be prepared as a supportive document to the Teaching Portfolio, such that the material relevant to the claims and inferences made in the Teaching Portfolio is clearly presented and spelt out. Length: No more than 30 pages (in Times New Roman pt 12, single line spacing).

1.

Description of the module, including:

  1. Module number and title
  2. Aims and objectives
  3. Class enrolment
  4. Structure of the module (lecture, tutorial, etc)

2.

Your contribution to the syllabus review and course design of this module.

3.

Description of how the pedagogical strategies contribute to the module’s intended learning outcomes.

4.

Description of how IT tools and other teaching aids are used in teaching.

5.

Representative reading assignments and an explanation of their usefulness.

6.

Representative sample of assessment tasks (final and continuous) and an explanation of their cognitive goals.

7.

Examples of CA (assignment, projects, tests, etc) together with your feedback on students’ work.

8.

Examples of emails/communication between you and your students which facilitated their learning.

9.

List of major problems/difficulties encountered and a description of actions taken to solve them and improve teaching.

10.

Your major achievements in this module.

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