Celebrating Commitment to Teaching Excellence
Hochschule Geisenheim University’s Teaching Award honors instructors and teams of instructors who have made an exceptional contribution to academic teachingand inspire and support their students in the learning process.
The award recognizes this outstanding commitment to excellent teaching and aims to share best practice examples in order to encourage staff to refine or improve their teaching concepts and modules.
Make a nomination
Please note that only students (individually or as a team) are entitled to make nominations.
They can nominate individual instructors or teams of instructors at Hochschule Geisenheim University whose courses in the winter semester 2021/22 or summer semester 2022 – digital, face-to-face or hybrid – have been particularly inspiring.
Nominations must be submitted by August 7, 2022 through HGU's apte portal.
Your opinion matters!
Click here to make a nomination:Nomination process
Step 1 - Nomination: Instructors or teams of instructors whose digital, face-to-face or hybrid courses have been particularly inspiring are eligible for nominations. Please note that only students are entitled to nominate candidates.
Step 2 - Application: Nominees are notified by University Didactics & eLearning and asked to describe their teaching concept. They may use a form or additional materials such as posters or videos. Final deadline to submit application materials: August 31, 2022
Step 3 - Selection: The award recipients are selected by the Awards Committee, which consists of students and teaching staff members and is appointed by the Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs.
Required information to make a nomination
On the apte portal, you are asked to provide information on the course and the instructor(s) and to give reasons as well as specific examples to support your nomination
The following personal information is required:
- Name, first name
- Email (for questions)
- If the nomination is submitted by a group of students: please enter the names of your fellow students
Information on the course:
- Name of the module/course,
- Name of the instructor(s),
- Semester in which the module was (last) offered
Reasons to support your nomination:
- Short text with a description of the module and teaching activity (1 000 characters max.)
- Select criteria from five categories and give detailed explanations
Selection criteria
In addition to formal criteria, the Awards Committee puts special emphasis on the following qualitative criteria in the selection process:
- Quality of teaching
- Personal skills of the instructor
- Practical relevance of the course
- Course structure & study materials
That is why students are asked to provide reasons that illustrate how the nominees meet these criteria. In a second step, these explanations are compared with the teaching concept described by the instructor.
The award recipients are selected by the Awards Committee.
It is made up equally of students and teaching staff members and chaired by the Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs. A new Awards Committee will be established each year. If you would like to join the Committee, feel free to apply during the application period.
Chair
Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs
Prof. Dr. Alexander von Birgelen
Students
Jannik Boer, B.Sc. Beverage Technology
Maximilian Retterath, M.Sc. Food Safety
Lisa Zimmermann, M.Sc. Beverage Technology
Dennis Zimmerstädt, 6th semester B.Sc. Horticulture
Teaching staff
Katharina Adler, M.Sc.
Emma Gledhill-Schmitt, B. A.
Prof. Dr. Bianca May
Dr. Matthias Schmitt
The Teaching Award will be presented annually at the teaching forum between the summer and winter semester.Every year, two awards will be presented which are worth € 1,500 each.
This year's award ceremony will take place at the teaching forum on September 23, 2022.
Contact
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact hochschuldidaktik@hs-gm.de.
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