Global Teaching and Learning Award

Overview

The Office of Liberal Education’s Global Teaching and Learning Award is an annual award that serves to both highlight and to encourage best practices in teaching global learning outcomes at the undergraduate level. The award winner will be a faculty member whose work demonstrates both effective and innovative teaching practices focused on preparing Miami University students to be responsible global leaders.

The award recipient will receive a $500 professional expense stipend and will be honored at a luncheon during the spring semester. The award recipient will be expected to present a brief presentation explaining how their nominated teaching practices are used within a single course or across multiple courses to effectively engage our students with global learning outcomes.

Award winners will be decided by the award committee composed of award recipients from the past two years plus a subset of Liberal Education Council members and/or relevant parties interested in global learning outcomes at Miami University. If you are interested in serving on the award committee please contact Richard Taylor, Director of Liberal Education.

Eligibility

Any Miami University faculty member, including all tenure-track, lecturer, clinical/professionally-licensed, and visiting faculty may be considered for this award. A faculty member who has previously received this award is eligible for nomination again after a period of five years from receipt of the previous award.

Criteria

In evaluating excellence, the award committee will be looking for evidence of teaching that uses creative or innovative methods to develop a student’s ability to communicate and act respectfully across linguistic and cultural differences, as well as accomplishes one or more of the following criteria:

  • creates learning experiences that give students the opportunity to explore and understand their place and influence in the changing world
  • enhances students’ ability to critically evaluate relationships among societies, institutions, and systems in terms of reciprocal-though not symmetrical-interactions, benefits, and costs
  • increases a students’ ability to describe the development and construction of differences and similarities among contemporary groups and regions
  • strengthens a student’s ability to identify and analyze the origins and influences of global forces

Submission Process

Entrants may be self-nominated or nominated by another person. The nomination letter should include an overview of the course/teaching practice for which the nominated person has been nominated and a brief discussion of ways that teaching meets the goal of developing students’ abilities to communicate and act respectfully across linguistic and cultural differences.

All initial nominations must be submitted online to the Office of Liberal Education (miamiplan@MiamiOH.edu), by March 20, 2015.

Finalist will then be selected and will submit up to 10 pages of documentation that can include:

1. A complete description of the submitted teaching practice, including the classroom setting, technology and/or personal support used, and the types of preparation needed for both the faculty and students to be successful.

2. An explanation of how the submitted teaching practices serve to develop our student’s ability to communicate and act respectfully across linguistic and cultural differences and at least one additional global learning outcome identified from the provided criteria list.

3. Documentation of the effectiveness of the submitted teaching practices in helping students accomplish the submitted global learning outcomes.

All final nominations with documentation will be submitted online to the Office of Liberal Education by April 24, 2015.

Previous Award Recipients:

For more information about the Global Teaching and Learning Award contact:

Richard Taylor
Director of Liberal Education
Office of Liberal Education
103 Campus Avenue Building
513-529-7135