Welcome academic leaders, deans, and department heads! Are you looking to elevate the standard of teaching excellence within your department, school, faculty, or institution? Look no further than our exclusive “Guide to Developing Teaching Awards in Higher Education.” This comprehensive resource is tailor-made to empower you to create and implement your own prestigious teaching awards, setting a new benchmark for academic success.
Why Empower Your Academic Unit with Our Guide?
Customized Strategies: Uncover strategies specifically designed to help you establish and administer impactful teaching awards that recognize and celebrate outstanding educators within your academic community.
Enhanced Prestige: Elevate the reputation of your academic unit by showcasing a commitment to teaching excellence and fostering a culture of recognition and appreciation.
Inspire Faculty Engagement: Engage and motivate faculty members by providing them with a clear pathway to recognition and professional growth through the development of teaching awards.
Key Insights for Success
- Designing an Effective Recognition Program: Gain insights into structuring a robust teaching award program that aligns with your unit’s values and goals.
- Engaging Stakeholders: Learn how to garner support from key stakeholders and create a collaborative approach to promoting teaching excellence.
- Crafting Meaningful Criteria: Define criteria that reflect the unique strengths and priorities of your unit, ensuring that the teaching awards truly resonate with your faculty members.
- Celebrating Teaching Excellence: Explore innovative ways to celebrate and showcase the achievements of award recipients, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and recognition.
Empower Academic Excellence Today!
Download our “Guide to Developing Teaching Awards in Higher Education” now and embark on a transformative journey towards recognizing and celebrating the exceptional educators in your academic community.
Testimonials:
The courses I have taken from Cynthia have provided me with a theoretical foundation that I use to better understand how to design classroom environments that promote learning. That foundation gives me an improved capacity to articulate pedagogical concepts so that I can perform effective literature searches to continuously improve my own teaching methods. Being able to engage literature effectively then gives me more confidence to take risks and evolve my courses at a faster rate.
Former faculty member student
Dr. Korpan is very skilled in online teaching and learning, using many effective options for learning in that environment and was able to give fulsome and helpful feedback to all students. Cynthia’s knowledge of learning and teaching in university settings is extensive. Her skills as an educator ensures that her courses and classes are organized, interesting, interactive, and engaging.
Peer colleague
Cynthia is a great instructor. Very knowledgeable about the subject matter. Good choices for assessment. Highly student–centered (i.e., not lecture–based) course activities. One of the best courses that I have taken or observed. Overall, she is a fantastic instructor and role model for teaching.
Former graduate student
Dr. Korpan is a delight to work with and is genuinely sincere, open, and considerate. She brings extensive research experience to her work and simultaneously helps others thrive in their own teaching and scholarship of teaching. Above all else, she understands educational excellence from a variety of perspectives: her extensive understanding of the research in the field; her own research studies and editing experiences; her program-building capabilities; and her hard work and innovation.
Peer colleague
Cynthia Korpan, PhD
Director
ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc
About me
I have over 20 years experience in Educational Development in Higher Education and over 35 years related to workplace learning. As the former Director of Teaching Excellence at the University of Victoria, I garnered significant experience in developing programs and courses, teaching undergraduates, graduate students, and professors, and mentoring many about learning and teaching in higher education. In 2017, I was honoured with the Educational Developers Caucus Leadership Award for my national work related to educational development. My research focuses on early career academics’ first teaching in the academic workplace. This work and my expertise have been and continues to be shared with institutions around the world, such as Canada, the United States, China, Uganda, Pakistan, and Ghana.
