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Distinguished Teaching Award

Award criteria

  • Demonstrates excellence and continued development in own teaching.

  • Integrates scholarship into teaching.

  • Inspires excellence in students.

  • Provides for significant individualized student learning through advising, mentoring, field work, independent study or graduate projects, for example.

  • Integrates a knowledge of community into teaching/earning in the classroom and/or through such experiences as field work, and service learning.

  • Stimulates and supports active and continuous learning in the use of creative instructional methodologies and selection of course content to meet student/learner needs and perspectives.

  • Demonstrates leadership in course and curriculum development.

University of Washington Tacoma
Office of Academic Affairs
Room GWP 312
Campus Box 358430 - 1900 Commerce Street - Tacoma, WA 98402-3100
(253) 692-5754 - FAX (253) 692-5643

Last update: 2/12/04 nps