Please use this form to nominate any member of the full-time faculty for one of the Teaching Excellence Awards below. You may nominate no more than one person in each category. For the criteria by which nominees will be evaluated, please see the Selection Criteria below the nomination form on this page. Also note that faculty who have received the award within the previous three years are not eligible for nomination this year. For a list of faculty who are not eligible for nomination, please see the list of Past Recipients at the bottom of this page.

Award Categories:

• Clinical/Professional (Educator-Mentor):For teaching excellence in non-traditional roles with individuals or small groups, specifically those who teach, mentor, or serve as role models for students in their clinical and professional development.
• Scholarship/Academic (Educator-Mentor):For teaching excellence in non-traditional roles with individuals or small groups, specifically those who teach, mentor, or serve as role models for students in their scholarly or academic development.
• Educator-Lecturer: For teaching excellence in traditional didactic or classroom teaching.
• Developing Teacher: For teaching excellence demonstrated by a junior faculty member in either of the above categories.

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Any regular, full-time faculty member who holds the academic rank of Instructor or higher in a college or department of MUSC and who has not been the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award within the previous three years.
2. Faculty nominated for the Clinical/Professional (Educator-Mentor), Academic/Scholarship (Educator-Mentor), or Educator-Lecturer categories must have taught at MUSC for three or more years. Those nominated for the Developing Teacher category must have taught for a minimum of two years at MUSC, and no more than four years total at an institution of higher education.

Nomination Form

Name of person to be nominated
College
Department
Award category
Name of nominator
Relationship to nominee (i.e., student, colleague, supervisor, etc.)
Reason for nomination
	IMPORTANT! This nomination form should be completed in its entirety and submitted (by clicking the Submit Form button) no later than Monday, January 28, 2013, at 5:00 p.m.

Criteria by which nominees will be evaluated are as follows:

1. Knowledge
   • Exhibits current and extensive breadth and depth of knowledge in subject areas of teaching responsibilities
   • Exhibits knowledge of teaching-learning principles and sound pedagogical practices
   • Contributes to the body of knowledge on teaching-learning through presentations, publications, instructional materials, and other such avenues of knowledge dissemination
   • Continually updates own knowledge of teaching-learning principles and practices
2. Teaching Skills
   • Creates a hospitable, supportive learning environment which is open and non-threatening
   • Conveys enthusiasm for the subject and the profession
   • Encourages discussion, intellectual curiosity, self-directed learning, and problem-solving
   • Fosters critical thinking and creativity
   • Makes difficult concepts easy to understand
   • Uses effective, innovative teaching methods and technologies
   • Continually incorporates current subject knowledge and new skills into the teaching arena
   • Assesses teaching effectiveness and makes necessary adjustments and improvement in teaching skills
   • Provides fair and constructive evaluations of student performance
3. Rapport With Students
   • Shows genuine interest in and respect for student needs and concerns
   • Creates a climate of respect, trust and concern
   • Demonstrates a willingness to be available to students
   • Expresses enthusiasm and enjoyment for teaching and working with students
   • Encourages participation; is open to others' opinions, criticisms and questioning
   • Demonstrates a sensitivity and responsiveness to individual student needs and differences
4. Modeling Interprofessional Collaboration
   • Provide evidence of collaboration with faculty and/or students outside of own profession.
   • Demonstrates support for interprofessional education initiative.
5. Modeling Professional Characteristics
   • Demonstrates ethical principles, values and characteristics in student/teacher and collegial relationships
   • Demonstrates responsibility to the profession and the institution
   • Demonstrates scholarship in an area of knowledge and teaching responsibility
   • Demonstrates sensitivity and respect for human diversity and individual differences

Previous Teaching Excellence Award Recipients:

The following faculty received the Teaching Excellence Award within the past three years and are therefore not eligible for nomination this year.

• 2010:
  • Dr. Rochelle F. Hanson - Clinical/Professional: Educator/Mentor
  • Dr. Elaine Amella - Academic/Professional: Educator/Mentor
  • Dr. Michael Kern - Educator-Lecturer
  • Dr. Ruth Stockdell Conner - Developing Teacher
• 2011:
  • Dr. Julius Sagel - Educator-Mentor: Clinical/Professional
  • Dr. Teresa Kelechi - Educator-Mentor: Academic/Scholarship
  • Dr. Gene Burges - Educator-Lecturer
  • Dr. Amy Thompson - Developing Teacher
• 2012:
  • Dr. Gretchen Seif - Developing Teacher
  • Dr. Kelly Ragucci - Educator-Lecturer
  • Dr. Tom Smith - Educator-Mentor: Academic/Scholarship
  • Dr. Patty Coker-Bolt - Educator-Mentor: Clinical/Professional

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