Outstanding TA/TF Awards

2013 Outstanding Teaching Fellow/Teaching Assistant Award Recipients

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Ms. Christine Uhl, Department of Mathematics

College of Arts and Sciences

Mr. Nicholas Higgins, Department of Political Science

College of Arts and Sciences

Mr. Marcus Z. Cox, Department of Management

College of Business

Ms. Teddi Eberly Martin, Department of Teacher Education and Administration

College of Education

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2013 Award Criteria and Support Documentation Requirements

Deadline for nominations is 5:00 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013.

1. For the purpose of this award, a Teaching Fellow is defined as any graduate student who has full responsibility for actual classroom instruction, i.e., planning, teaching, evaluating, and assigning grades. In this context, planning and evaluating are not intended to exclude those who teach a section of a course that uses a common (departmental) syllabus and/or common exams.

2. For the purpose of this award, a Teaching Assistant is defined as any graduate student who assists professors/instructors with their teaching responsibilities of large lecture sections, particularly when the course requires essay tests, homework assignments, and term papers as well as normal administrative classroom assignments including test administration and grading.

3. To be eligible for an award, the candidate must have completed one full year as a Teaching Fellow or Teaching Assistant at UNT.

4. The candidate must be a current student during the semester in which the award is given; however the candidate need not be employed as a Teaching Fellow/Teaching Assistant during that semester.

5. The candidate must demonstrate superior teaching. Substantial evidence including informed, first-hand assessments by departmental faculty and/or administrative personnel responsible for supervising and evaluating the Teaching Fellow /Teaching Assistant is required. It is particularly valuable to have input from someone who has observed the TF/TA at work.

a) A summary of the candidate’s quantitative and qualitative student teaching evaluations must be included. Individual teaching evaluation forms should not be submitted. Only summaries of the teaching evaluation scores should be submitted.

b) At least two, and no more than three, letters of recommendation from faculty and/or administrators must be submitted. One letter of recommendation must be from the supervisor of the Teaching Fellow/Teaching Assistant within the department or division and one from another faculty member or administrator within the department or division.

6. The candidate must exhibit superior academic performance as a graduate student. The Fellow/Teaching Assistant must have a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.5; no graduate grades below a B; and few, if any, Incomplete or W/P grades. When scholastic performances of nominees, as well as other factors, appear very similar, the committee may also look at GRE scores and undergraduate records. A current up-to-date transcript, including all graduate data, must be submitted.

7. The candidate must show evidence of satisfactory progress in the graduate program. This includes completion of at least 18 semester hours for a master's degree student, and completion of at least 30 semester hours for a doctoral student.

8. The candidate must provide evidence of work experience at UNT. A list of all courses taught (including the semester and year in which the courses were taught), a course description for each course, and the number of students in each course must be submitted in an outline or table format.

9. A current vita of the nominee must be included in the materials submitted.

10. Nomination packets should be submitted as electronic documents in PDF format to the Faculty Senate Teaching Fellows/Teaching Assistants Committee at FacultySenate@unt.edu for consideration.

Deadline for nominations is 5:00 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013.

2013 Outstanding Teaching Fellow Nomination Form

2013 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Nomination Form

2013 Outstanding TF/TA Selection Criteria