Learning Communities Teaching Award

NOMINATION FORM

Here’s your chance to recognize the outstanding teaching of your Learning Community (LC) instructor(s)!

This award is intended to acknowledge and celebrate an instructor whose teaching goes above and
beyond the classroom and, in so doing, encourages students (you and/or others in your LC) to expand
learning beyond the class.

In order to nominate an LC instructor,* please fill out this form and give it to your LC PAL (or drop it off at
the PAL Desk in the Murray Library) before the deadline of Friday, November 26, 2010.

* To nominate more than one LC instructor, please use a separate form for each instructor.

(1) Please indicate—with an x—which LC instructor you are nominating for this award.

Bert Weichel Krista Wilde Rhonda Anderson

Carrie-Ann Prefontaine Kristina Fagan Rob Innes
Dennis O’Shaughnessy Lisa Smith Rob Pywell
Despina Illiopoulou Michael Horsch Robert Englebert
Emer O’Hagan Michael Kennedy Rod Johnson
Frances Walley Michael MacGregor Sajjadur Rahman
Ian Burgess Mitch Daschuk Som Niyogi
Jim Cheesman Nancy Van Styvendale Tom Graham
Jorge Chedrese Neil Chilton Ulrich Teaucher
Kathleen James-Cavan Paul Hackett Wendy Roy
Keith Brown Paul Rowe Yangdou Wei
Ken Wilson Qingde Yang

(2) Please indicate the LC to which you belong (e.g. Links, etc.).

(3) Please rate and explain how your LC instructor has gone above and beyond (a) during lectures, (b)
during LC Hours, and (c) outside of class. Please attach extra information if the space provided is
insufficient. Take care when filling out the following—nominations will be judged based on the
thoughtfulness and completeness of responses.

a) DURING LECTURES: Please rate the effectiveness of your instructor’s teaching.

 Outstanding Why do you consider the nominee’s teaching effective? Please explain.

 Above Average  
 Average

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 b) DURING LC HOURS: Please rate your instructor’s contribution to your LC Hours (ie: participation
during your midterm study sessions, professor panel, career session, etc.).

 Outstanding How was the nominee's participation during LC Hours meaningful to you as a
student? Please explain.
 Above Average
  
 Average

c) OUTSIDE OF CLASS: Please rate your instructor’s support outside of class (ie: their
approachability, support during office hours, willingness to help, etc.).

 Outstanding How was the nominee’s support outside of class meaningful to you as a
 Above Average student? Please explain.
 Average   

(4) In addition to providing your name, NSID (abc123), and signature below, please collect LC students’
names, NSIDs, and signatures in support of this nomination. If additional space is necessary, please
attach another sheet. The number of supporting signatures could affect the weight of your nomination.

Name NSID Signature

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Thank you for taking the time to acknowledge your exceptional instructor! Following the submission of
LC students’ nominations, LC PALs, LC Program Staff, and the LC Teaching Award Committee will review
the submissions and determine the award winner.

Deadline for nominations is Friday, November 26, 2010. Please submit your completed Nomination
Form to your LC PAL or drop it off at the PAL Desk in the Murray Library.