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Teaching Effectiveness Award for GSIs:
Spring 2012 Guidelines

The Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and the Graduate Student Instructor Teaching and Resource Center are delighted to announce the twentieth annual Teaching Effectiveness Award competition. This award recognizes the teaching ideas of Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors. Approximately fourteen awards of $500 each will be given. The essays selected for the award will be published on the GSI Teaching and Resource Center’s website.

Purpose of the Award

The Teaching Effectiveness Award is designed to recognize a small number of outstanding GSIs who have identified a particular teaching problem or issue in their own classes, sections, or laboratories and have developed, implemented, and assessed an appropriate and effective response to the problem or issue.

Eligibility

Recipients of the Outstanding GSI Award for the academic years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 are eligible to apply. GSIs who have won a Teaching Effectiveness Award in past years are ineligible for the award, as are students who have already graduated and those who are no longer in degree programs at UC Berkeley.

Application Procedures

Eligible GSIs will be contacted by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center and invited to apply. Applications will be submitted electronically through a password-protected website. Applicants will be asked to fill out a cover sheet and upload a one-page essay (Word or PDF document, details below). Please note that email and paper submissions will not be accepted.

Link to Submission Site

Essay Guidelines and Award Criteria

Applicants must upload a one-page essay (in 12-point font) that describes a teaching problem or issue the GSI encountered, the solution the GSI devised to address the problem, and the assessment method used to evaluate the effectiveness of the solution

The essays will be judged on the quality, appropriateness, and pedagogical soundness of the following:

• The analysis of a problem or issue in teaching and learning connected to the GSI’s class, section, or lab
• The teaching method, strategy, or idea implemented to address the problem or issue
• The assessment method used to determine whether or not the objective was achieved

Link to Submission Site

Application Deadline

Submissions are to be made electronically and are due on Monday, April 9, 2012. Submissions received after the deadline will not be reviewed.

The Teaching Effectiveness Award Ceremony honoring the recipients of the award will be held on Wednesday, May 9, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. in the Women’s Faculty Club.