I wanted to thank you for all the help that you have given me over the semester. Frankly, nobody would have been better than you as a mentor. You must have been really busy since you won your Award. I was obviously asking a lot and I don’t know how you could have found time to help me as much as you did. I am very pleased to be able to say that you are a former teacher of mine. (from presentation by Iain Hay and Mark Israel,

2008)

Mark Israel

Ron Smith

Making the best of it

Impact on you? Has the award lived up to your

expectations? What difference has the award made to

you?

Talk for 5 minutes Share for 5 minutes

Value of teaching awards At structural level CSHE Report, Australia (2005)

offering recognition & rewards to wider diversity of practices

raise priority given to good teaching support efforts of universities to

encourage culture of teaching excellence

awardees are resource for advancement of learning & teaching

At individual level Ballantyne et al. (2003) review

questionnaires to 40 recipients of AAUT (1997-2001) awards found

given participants personal validation and encouragement

contributed to winners’ reputation and credibility

caused teachers to reflect on their teaching practices

acted as incentive for others to improve their teaching

End of career scepticism, envy and resentment

Cheap labour Overwhelming

sheer quantity of requests perceived need to meet others’ high

expectations

Talk to numerous groups of potential, starting,

continuing & completing students lunchtime staff seminar to another

discipline at distant campus local community groups

Awards & leadership

Can teaching awards accelerate development of educational leadership incentive for academics before they

apply for award giving recipients greater authority

and opportunities to influence teaching

Used as status symbols teaching assessors drivers for change motivational speakers

Used to develop policy write grant applications mentor colleagues

Educational Change: Cultures Educational Change: Cultures

Higher education – scholarly approachHigher education – scholarly approach Carnegie scholars (US)Carnegie scholars (US)

Scholarship of teaching and learningScholarship of teaching and learning Inquiry projects (identify issues/concerns)Inquiry projects (identify issues/concerns) Study themStudy them Document approaches/resultsDocument approaches/results Share them with colleaguesShare them with colleagues