The ATEA recognises achievements in teaching, including instruction, educational design, assessment and feedback, as well as wider adoption of good practices in these areas through leadership and support of other colleagues. ATEA also recognises achievements in developing innovative technology-enhanced learning through thoughtful integration of appropriate technology with teaching.
The purpose of the award is to promote university teaching. The award seeks to recognise NUS colleagues, whether individuals or teams, whose teaching and/or use of technology in innovative ways, has positively contributed to students’ learning and a broader culture that values teaching. A subsidiary but equally important goal therefore is to encourage wider sharing and adoption of good teaching practices beyond a single course, i.e. within the department, programme, faculty, or the university more broadly.
Teachers can and do achieve excellence in different ways. In the context of this award, ‘excellence’ is understood as achieving, and sustaining over time, high levels of positive educational impact. In the case of this award, excellence is achieved through new or existing pedagogies, including the thoughtful integration of new or existing technology, that advance the learning of students, colleagues, and the wider university community.
Sub-category A: Individuals | Sub-category B: Teams |
Recognises positive contributions by an individual to the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of high-quality teaching and assessment, including the thoughtful integration of new or existing digital technology to pedagogy, at the course or programme level, in a sustained and impactful way. | Recognises positive contributions by teams to the co-design, development, implementation, and evaluation of high-quality teaching and assessment, including the thoughtful integration of new or existing digital technology to pedagogy, at the course or programme level, in a sustained and impactful way. These contributions involve collaboration by teachers to achieve goals that would not have been typically achievable by an individual. |
The applicant must not currently be on the Honour Roll (award winners who have won either of the awards three times, will be placed on the Honour Roll in the following year).
The award will carry a monetary value of $2,000 (individual category) and $8,000 (teams, to be awarded to team leader and distributed among team members). Recipients will be recognised at a university-wide Teaching Awards Ceremony to celebrate and share their achievements with the NUS community.
Nominations will be evaluated with reference to evidence of strength in and positive impact through one or more of the following. It is not necessary to meet all the criteria, but applicants would make a compelling case by providing evidence of strengths in more than one area.
In the case of team nominations, the team leader, in addition, needs to indicate how the team has collaborated by highlighting the role of each team member and explaining how that collaboration has been advantageous.
A successful case will depend on evidence from multiple and convergent sources, for example:
Documentation needs to be brief and should be focused on specifically addressing the relevant criteria above.
Applicants will submit a portfolio consisting of:
Submission should be made using the University Teaching Awards Portal (UTAP) and must be made by the applicant using his/her login NUS User ID, within the Applicant Submission Period determined by the applicant’s FTEC.