Memorandum

To:Full-time Faculty, Department ChairsandDivision Deans

From:The Excellence Award Academy

Date:November 9, 2017

Re:Seeking Nominations for 2018 Excellence Awards

Excellence Academy

Sinclair utilizes a faculty-directed process for selecting the Excellence Award recipients. An Academy of former award winners from the previous two years will review faculty nominations to select outstanding tenure-track and tenured teachers to be honored. All award winners will be expected to serve a 2-year term on the Excellence Academy.

Excellence Awards

The League for Innovation Excellence Award is our college’s highest recognition of outstanding accomplishment in teaching.To read more about this award please visit their website at

Sinclair College Award Eligibility

All tenure-track and tenured Sinclair faculty members who have completed at least four years of service in a tenure-track or tenured faculty position are eligible to be nominated by their department chair or the division dean, as applicable.There is no limit on the number of nominations that may be submitted per Division. No more than two faculty members will be selected from each division. Faculty nominees who were not selected last year may resubmit an updated nomination form.

Nomination Deadline

Nominations must be submitted to the Center for Teaching and Learning in Room 7L02 no later than 5:00 PM on Wednesday,November 29, 2017.

Nomination Process

Nominations must be submitted in a labeled file folder, and include the information listed in the nomination form (copy attached). The materials may be clipped together, but not stapled or otherwise fastened together. Electronic submissions will not be accepted.

Interviews

Nominees may be invited to be interviewed at the discretion of the Excellence Academy.

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NISOD JOHN & SUANNE ROUECHE LEAGUE FOR INNOVATION EXCELLENCE AWARD
NOMINATION FORM

*The Academy may deem it necessary to interview you, your department chairperson or another individual. If this occurs, the Academy will contact you prior to the interview.

Nomination Checklist

Please check to affirm that you have complied with the award procedure.

Completed Award Nomination, printed on white 8 1/2- x 11-inch paper and an 11 point font

A statement of your teaching philosophy

A one-page bulleted list of teaching accomplishments

A bulleted list of conferences/workshops attended in the past four years

A bulleted list of conferences/workshops facilitated at in the past four years

A one-page letter from your department chair or division dean

A one-page letter from one teaching colleague

Summaries and comments of student surveys from three sections of courses you have taught over the past year

Nomination is submitted in a folder (no notebooks or binders)

The nomination information is in the following order:

  • Statement of Teaching Philosophy
  • Teaching accomplishments
  • Conferences/workshops
  • Support letters
  • Student surveys, including comments(ONLY three summaries)

I have reviewed my Excellence Award Nomination materials and completed the above checklist. I understand that the nomination must be submitted to the Excellence Academy through the Center for Teaching and Learning,Room 7L02, by 5:00 PM on November 29, 2017. No late nominations are accepted.

Nominee SignatureDate

Department Chair SignatureDate

Division Dean SignatureDate

NISOD JOHN & SUANNE ROUECHE LEAGUE FOR INNOVATION EXCELLENCE AWARD
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Name / Department
Current Rank / Date Hired

1.Statement of my teaching philosophy:

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2.Teaching accomplishments:

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3.Conferences and/or workshops attended in the past four years:

4.Conferences and/or workshops facilitated in the past four years:

5.Please attach recommendation letters and student survey summaries

CRITERIA FOR EXCELLENCE AWARDS

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Successful nominations for this award will be evaluated upon these criteria related to a nominee’s history of teaching service at Sinclair:

  1. Instructional Approaches
  2. Applies a teaching philosophy that results in student success
  3. Encourages student-centered learning
  4. Encourages cooperation among students to promote learning
  5. FPRs demonstrate teaching and learning accomplishments
  6. Appropriately integrates technology into teaching and learning
  7. General Education
  8. Includes the college’s general education outcomes in curriculum
  9. Encourages student critical thinking skills
  10. Professional Development Related to Teaching
  11. Models commitment to life-long learning
  12. Attends teaching conferences or workshops
  13. Facilitates teaching conferences or workshops, or produces comparable professional writing on teaching and learning
  14. Assessment and Evaluation
  15. Fairly measures student learning through multiple evaluation tools
  16. Uses assessment tools to improve instruction and student learning
  17. Provides sufficient periodic student feedback to improve learning skills

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