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| Award | Description | Eligibility/Criteria | Due Date | Nomination Contents |
| UW-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award Up to 5 winners per year $500 award |
The Early Excellence Award recognizes outstanding and inspirational achievement on the part of TAs with fewer than 4 semesters of teaching experience. | Campus-wide Any TA with less than 4 semesters of teaching experience at this or any other institution |
November 9 | Letter of recommendation from faculty supervisor Departmental endorsement Summary of student evaluations and excerpted comments List of teaching assignments UW transcript |
| UW-Madison
Exceptional Service Award Up to 5 winners per year $500 award |
The Service Award recognizes outstanding teaching assistants who, in addition to their regular duties, perform exceptional service related to the education mission of their departments in the form of volunteerism, committee work, mentoring, etc. Nominations should focus on the service performed outside of the TA's regular duties. | Campus-wide Any TA |
November 9 | Letter of recommendation from a faculty or staff member who is familiar with the nominee's service activities Departmental endorsement Summary of student evaluations and excerpted comments List of teaching assignments UW transcript |
| UW-Madison
Innovation in Teaching Award Up to 5 winners per year $500 award |
The
Innovation Award recognizes teaching assistants who brought exceptional
creativity to their work and developed or adapted new teaching methods or
techniques. |
Campus-wide Any TA |
November 9 | Letter of recommendation from faculty or staff member who is familiar with the nominee's teaching innovation Departmental endorsement Personal statement from nominee that explains the innovation and its pedagogical significance (two pages, doublespaced) Summary of student evaluations and excerpted comments UW transcript List of teaching assignments |
| UW-Madison
Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award Up to 5 winners per year $500 award |
This award recognizes Ph.D. students who have performed as outstanding teaching assistants throughout their UW-Madison tenure. | Campus-wide Nominees should be at the end of their graduate careers and planning to defend their dissertations before the end of the school year
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November 9 | Personal
statement describing the evolution of the nominee's teaching philosophy (two pages, doublespaced)
Letters of recommendation from TWO faculty or staff members who are familiar with the nominee's performance as a TA Departmental endorsement Summary of teaching evaluations and excerpted student comments UW transcript List of teaching assignments |
| L&S
Teaching Fellow 15 winners per year $1000 award (Funded entirely by the College of Letters and Science) |
The Teaching Fellow Award is granted to TAs from the College of Letters and Science, the College of Ag and Life Sciences, and the School of Human Ecology who have achieved outstanding success as students and teachers. Winners of this award are named L&S Fellows and serve as instructors at the L&S TA training session at the start of the fall semester. | For TAs from L&S, CALS, SOHE, IES. | February 15 | Letter
of recommendation from supervising faculty member Letter of recommendation from department Summary of student evaluations and excerpted student comments List of teaching assignments at UW-Madison Personal statement of teaching philosophy from nominee (two pages, single-spaced) UW transcript |
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July 24, 2003 |