The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Awards for Australian University Teaching
The ALTC Awards for Australian University Teaching
The ALTC Awards for Australian University Teaching are highly competitive and involve an intensive selection process to assess the achievements of applicants. At the University of Adelaide that selection process is conducted by the Committee for Learning and Teaching Awards (CLTA), a standing committee of the ULTC.
The three awards that make up the ALTC Awards for Australian University Teaching are the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, the Awards for Teaching Excellence and the Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning. They are awarded in eight categories:
Five discipline categories:
Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing etc)
Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies
Humanities and the Arts
Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science)
Social Sciences (including Education)
and
Indigenous Education, for receipt of the Neville Bonner Award/s
Early Career
Priority Area (team teaching for 2007)
Selection process at the University of Adelaide
Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
Expression of Interest cover sheet
pro forma A - Times New Roman
pro forma B - Verdana
Preparing expressions of interest and applications for awards
The selection round at the University begins with the Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in early February. The University is permitted to nominate up to ten individuals or teams for a Citation. These may be Academic or Professional staff. Self-nomination is not permitted.
At the University of Adelaide, expressions of interest (EoI) in the Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning are invited from Stephen Cole the Elder (SCE) Award winners and high commendations, as well as other SCE nominees and individuals or teams suggested by Executive Deans, Managers or Directors of units or Associate Deans (Learning & Teaching).
The EoI are considered by the CLTA and ten are shortlisted for the Citations. These individuals or teams are provided with editorial assistance and peer review before submitting an application for a Citation to a second round of assessment by the CLTA. From this second round of assessment, applications of sufficient merit are chosen to be put forward to the Carrick Institute for a Citation. It may be, therefore, that fewer than ten nominations are forwarded to Carrick.
Award for Teaching Excellence
In any given year, any individual or team put forward for a ALTC Citation is considered a candidate for a nomination to an Award for Teaching Excellence. In addition, EoI are solicited from individuals or teams who have been involved in the award rounds in previous years. Executive Deans, Managers or Directors of units or Associate Deans (Learning & Teaching) are also asked to identify potential candidates.
Because the Award for Teaching Excellence demands an exceptional commitment to both one’s Discipline and one’s teaching over a sustained period of time, the requirements of the EoI differ from those for a Citation.
Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning
In addition to teaching awards, it also includes an Award for Programs that Enhance Learning. These are learning and teaching support programs and services, which are also selected for nomination to ALTC by the CLTA from a pool suggested by Executive Deans, Managers or Directors of units and Associate Deans (Learning & Teaching).
Description of the Awards
Awards for Teaching Excellence - 26 awards of $25,000
Up to twenty-six individuals and teams across the eight designated categories are selected to attend the annual awards ceremony where they are presented with a ALTC Award for Teaching Excellence. One of these will receive the Prime Minister's Award. These awards celebrate a group of the nation's most outstanding university teachers in their fields. They give recognition to university teachers renowned for the excellence of their teaching, who have superb presentation skills and who have made a broad and deep contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in higher education.
The Prime Minister's Award for the Australian University Teacher of the Year
One award of $50,000 and a medal
The Prime Minister's Award is the premier university teaching award. It is awarded to an academic or team with an exceptional record of advancing student learning, educational leadership and scholarly contribution to teaching and learning. Each year the winner of the Prime Minister's Award for the Australian University Teacher of the Year is chosen from the winners of the Teaching Excellence Awards.
Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning - 14 awards of $25,000
The Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning recognise learning and teaching support programs and services that make an outstanding contribution to the quality of student learning and the quality of the student experience of higher education. These 'ALTC Program Awards' are given to exemplary programs and services whose effectiveness has been demonstrated through strenuous evaluation. The programs and services that receive these awards set benchmarks for similar activities in other institutions.
Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning - 210 awards of $10,000
Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning recognise and reward the diverse contributions that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning. The 'ALTC Citations' are granted to people who have made a significant contribution to the quality of student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period, whether they are academic staff, general staff, sessional staff or institutional associates. People who are awarded ALTC Citations are widely recognised for their achievements within the nominating institution and have received strong institutional endorsement. Nominations for Citations are made during Semester One and the winners are announced in the press during June or July. Individual Citations of 15-20 words describing the distinctive contribution to student learning of each awardee are published to acknowledge the achievement.
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