Creative Teaching Award

“Creative Approaches to Teaching” is a program sponsored by the Instructional Development Council to encourage communication among faculty about creative and effective teaching practice. Faculty and instructional academic staff members are invited to write a brief description of a successful teaching strategy or classroom assessment technique that has worked well for them. Any exercise, teaching approach, or assessment strategy that you have personally used and found to be successful may be submitted.

Please take a few minutes to describe one of your most creative and effective teaching strategies or assessment techniques. If your strategy or technique is selected, you will receive $100 (payroll) and some well-deserved recognition.

Selection criteria include:
1.         the degree of innovation
2.         the degree of applicability to courses outside your field
3.         the extent to which your strategy or technique adheres to sound pedagogical practice
4.         the extent to which the description of your strategy or technique is clear and straightforward

To submit a strategy or technique, please provide the information requested below. Please limit your narrative to 1-2 pages and send as an e-mail attachment (in Word) to Timothy Sewall, Associate Provost, sewallt@uwgb.edu by October 30, 2006.

1.         Your name
2.         Your budgetary unit
3.         Your office location and phone number
4.         Date submitted
5.         In 1-2 pages, describe the teaching strategy or assessment technique that you would like considered. Be sure to clearly state the strategy’s purpose and the type of class (e.g., large, lecture, seminar) in which the strategy works best. The strategy does not have to be something that you personally developed, only something that you have personally used and found to be effective. Provide sufficient detail so that others might adapt the strategy or technique to their teaching needs.

Questions?
Contact Dean Von Dras, Chair, IDC, at 465-5012 or vondrasd@uwgb.edu.

Previous Award Recipients Click on the semesters or names below to view winning entries. Note there are semesters for which there were no entries.
Fall 2006	None
Spring 2006	Terri Johnson, David Voelker
Fall 2005	Karen Dalke, Debbie Burden, Karla Larson, Linda Toonen
Spring 2005	Liamar Durán Almarza, Joy Benson
Fall 2004	E. Nicole Meyer, Sandra Stokes
Spring 2004	Andrew Kersten, Dean VonDras
Fall 2003	Franklin Chen, Rebecca Meacham, Rebecca Tout
Spring 2003	Regan Gurung, Jocelyn Jones, Jennifer Popiel
Fall 2002	Joy Benson, Alison Gates, Illene Noppe
Spring 2002	William Lepley, Tracy Luchetta
Fall 2001	Andrew Fiala, Scott Furlong, Dean Von Dras
Spring 2001	Regan Gurung, Dean Von Dras
Fall 2000	None
Spring 2000	Aeron Haynie, Andrew Kersten, William Shay, Karin Suesser
Fall 1999	Linda Curl, Linda Toonen, Lynn Walter
Spring 1999	Greg Aldrete, Karin Suesser
Fall 1998	Esther Gray, Susan Kline-Heim, Sylvia Kubsch
Spring 1998	E. Nicole Meyer, Bruce Mielke
Fall 1997	Ed de St. Aubin, Lisa Muir
Spring 1997	Catherine Henze, Patricia Ragan, Denise Scheberle, Patricia Terry
Fall 1996	Kenneth Fleurant, Illene Noppe

Some non-winning entries are available upon request. Contact Jan Snyder at extension 2082 or via e-mail at snyderj.

Creative Approaches to Teaching Award