Purpose

The Faculty of Engineering (FoE) Teaching Excellence Awards are a stepping stone towards the University of Auckland Teaching Excellence Award and, in turn, the Aotearoa Tertiary Educator Awards. The same categories are used (Early Career Excellence, Sustained Excellence, Excellence in Leadership) and the awards are judged using very similar criteria that are well aligned.

These awards require the development of a significant teaching portfolio (around 4,500 words in length), documenting your teaching and reflecting on it at some depth. Note that the Teaching Excellence Awards are distinct from the Top Teacher Awards and the Teaching Development Awards which are a good indicator and stepping stone, respectively, for the Teaching Excellence Award.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the awards, you must:

be a current member of the teaching staff of The University of Auckland; and
have taught in at least six complete teaching sessions (semesters, summer school, quarters) while holding a tenurable or fixed-term position of 0.5 full-time equivalence or greater at Senior Tutor, Professional Teaching Fellow, or Lecturer level or above at The University of Auckland.

Award categories

There are three different categories (see below). You may apply in one category only. If you are eligible for both the Sustained Excellence and Leadership categories, consider carefully which category will allow you to make a stronger case for teaching excellence. For the leadership category, your application will need to focus heavily on how you have made a significant contribution to the educational practice of colleagues (internal and/or external), to relevant communities, and/or to their particular discipline/focus area.

Early Career Excellence in Teaching

Sustained Excellence in Teaching

The award for Early Career Excellence in Teaching requires you to be within six years (at the application deadline) of a first appointment to a tenurable or fixed-term academic position.

The award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching requires you to show sustained excellence over a minimum period of six years (continuous or non-continuous), some of which time may have been spent in another tertiary education institution.

Leadership in Teaching and Learning

The award for Leadership in Teaching and Learning can be focused on informal or formal leadership. You can apply under either category (note that this is different from the university awards where informal applications can only be made in even-numbered years and formal in odd-numbered years).

Informal Leadership is for staff who do not hold formal leadership positions, but who have had a sustained and beneficial influence on others’ teaching and the advancement of student learning more broadly in the course of pursuing standard teaching and service responsibilities.

Formal Leadership is for staff whose educational leadership is part of their position profile. This includes roles within the first and second levels of the Academic Leadership Framework (e.g., Associate Deans, academic heads, programme directors, and major/specialisation leaders), as well as faculty-specific educational leadership roles where these involve a corresponding workload allocation and/or provision of a variable supplementary payment (VSP).

Application Procedure and Timeline

The Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards operate based on self-nomination and the process and timeline are tabulated below.

Put in an EOI

Notified to proceed or delay

Submit teaching portfolio

Notified of outcome

Deadline: 21 April 2024

07 June 2024

Deadline: 12 July 2024

09 August 2024

Provide a summary (less than a page) of your teaching achievements to date. Email your summary to Enrique del Rey Castillo e.delrey@auckland.ac.nz. The Teaching and Learning Quality Committee will review your summary and advise on the best plan of action.

We will advise you on whether you have a strong case to proceed and develop a portfolio, or if it's better to delay it to some point in the future. Crafting a portfolio can be time-consuming, so we don’t want you to do this unless you have a strong case and the time to devote to it. We can also advise on which category you are best suited to apply for.

If you are advised to proceed, we will provide further guidance on the portfolio construction, judging criteria, and an appropriate format for the portfolio.

You may wish to seek advice and feedback from previous award winners (see below).

Once your portfolio is reviewed, we will advise you of the outcome, and if suitable, encourage you to apply for the University Teaching Awards. The current deadline for the University Teaching Award is 9 September 2024, so this gives you roughly one month to finalise your portfolio.

Previous Award Recipients

2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2008
2005
2004
2003

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2023

Andrew Brown
Thomas Loho

Recording of awardee presentations, (Andrew 0:00 - ~32:00, Thomas ~32:00 - ~49:00 mins) T&L Seminar (Feb '24)

FoE Sustained Teaching Excellence Award 2023

Nasser Giacaman

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2022

Tom Allen
William Lee

Recording of Tom Allen's presentation (~49:00 - ~56 mins), T&L Seminar (Feb '24)

No awardees (COVID 19)

No awardees (COVID 19)

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2019

Colin Whittaker
Kevin Jia

FoE Sustained Teaching Excellence Award 2019

Karl Stol

National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award 2019

Peter Bier

FoE Sustained Teaching Excellence Award 2018

Partha Roop

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2017

Lokesh Padhye
Subeh Chowdhury

FoE Sustained Teaching Excellence Award 2017

Andrew Taberner
Peter Bier

UoA Early Career Excellence in Teaching 2017

Hazim Namik

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2016

Hazim Namik
Rashina Hoda

AUEA Teaching Excellence Award 2016

Nasser Giacaman

UoA Early Career Excellence in Teaching 2015

Nasser Giacaman

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2014

Nasser Giacaman

AUEA Teaching Excellence Award 2014

Bryony James

FoE Early Career Teaching Excellence Award 2013

Roopak Sinha
Michelle Dickinson

FoE Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision 2013

Debes Bhattacharyya

AUEA Teaching Excellence Award 2013

Peter Bier

National Teaching Excellence Award 2013

Bryony James

UoA Sustained Excellence in Teaching 2012

Bryony James

UoA Early Career Excellence in Teaching 2011

Peter Bier

UoA Collaboration in Teaching 2008

Rainer Seidel

UoA Sustained Excellence in Teaching 2005

Michael J Pender

UoA Sustained Excellence in Teaching 2004

Neil Broom

National Teaching Excellence Award 2004

Gerard Rowe

UoA Sustained Excellence in Teaching 2003

Gerard Rowe