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Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Awards for Australian University Teaching

CSU Winners of ALTC Awards

 

Charles Sturt University 's Call for Applications for 2009 ALTC Awards

The ALTC Awards for Australian University Teaching are highly competitive and involve an intensive selection process to assess the achievements of applicants.

  

The Awards

There are three categories of ALTC Awards for Australian University Teaching

1. Awards for Teaching Excellence - 27 awards of $25,000

8 nominations are allowed per university per year.

Awarded in eight categories: Biological Sciences, Early Career; Humanities and the Arts; Indigenous Education, for receipt of the Neville Bonner Award/s; Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies; Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing etc); Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science); Social Sciences (including Education); and Work integrated learning (Priority Area for 2008-9).

Up to twenty-seven individuals and teams across the eight designated categories are selected to attend the annual awards ceremony where they are presented with an 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.

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.

2. Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning - 14 awards of $25,000

7 nominations are allowed per university per year.

Awarded in seven categories: Assessment and feedback, Educational partnerships and collaborations with other organisations, The first-year experience, Flexible learning and teaching, Innovation in curricula, learning and teaching, Postgraduate education and Services supporting student learning.

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.

3. Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning - 210 awards of $10,000

10 nominations are allowed per university per year.

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. Individual Citations of 25 words describing the distinctive contribution to student learning of each awardee are published to acknowledge the achievement.

Career Achievement Award - one occasional award

Periodically, the ALTC acknowledges an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to teaching and learning that is recognised throughout the higher education sector. The ALTC Career Achievement Award is given to individuals whose career achievements in learning and teaching in higher education have had a major influence and left an enduring legacy. ALTC Career Achievement Award winners are invited to present the occasional address at the annual CAAUT dinner. Recipients of this award will receive a signed certificate from the Prime minister and a trophy. Nominations will be made by members of the ALTC Board.

 

Useful websites and forms

Link to the Australian Learning & Teaching Council

ALTC Guidelines for 2009 Awards (.pdf)

Charles Sturt University 's Call for Applications for 2009 ALTC Awards (word.doc)

This document provides information for CSU staff who are considering applying for a ALTC Award.

Charles Sturt University 's templates for completing ALTC award applications

Writing Teaching Excellence Award Applications

Charles Sturt University 's Past Winners of ALTC Awards (Previously Carrick)

 

Charles Sturt University 's Important Dates for 2009 ALTC Awards

All applications should be sent to Dr Derek Sequeira ( dsequeira@csu.edu.au )

Additional advice to assist you in your application is available from the members of the Learning and Teaching Committee listed below:

A/Prof Sharynne McLeod, smcleod@csu.edu.au, CSU Coordinator, ALTC Teaching Awards

Learning and Teaching Committee:

Further advice is available from:

A/Prof Leonora Ritter, Head, School of Social Sciences and Liberal Studies lritter@csu.edu.au

Advice on processes and timelines is available from:
Dr Derek Sequeira, Coordinator, Evaluation Services, DLTS dsequeira@csu.edu.au

2009 ALTC Citations: Processes and Key Dates for CSU Applicants

 

2009 ALTC Teaching Awards & Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning: Processes and Key Dates for CSU Applicants

 

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