The 2012 Herbert and Leota Tucker Teaching Award
Nomination deadline: January 31, 2012

The Herbert and Leota Tucker Teaching Award is Mount Allison's highest recognition of teaching excellence and our only university-wide teaching award. Established by Edmund, Harold and William Tucker in memory of their parents, it is intended to encourage excellence in teaching at Mount Allison University by acknowledging those who exemplify this excellence.

Nomination
Nominations are invited from any member of the University community, including students. If you are uncertain which teaching award (the Tucker or the Crake) is the better fit for your proposed candidate, please read the descriptions of both awards and feel free to consult the PCTC.

Eligibility
To be eligible for nomination for the Tucker Teaching Award, nominees must
• Be tenured or tenure-track professors at Mount Allison University
• Have completed at least five years of full-time teaching at the University at the time of nomination.
• Have demonstrated during at least those past five years outstanding teaching, educational leadership, and teaching scholarship.

Previous Tucker Award Winners

Criteria
Excellence in teaching encompasses a wide spectrum of activities. The following are among the criteria for the Tucker Award:

• Showing enthusiasm for and capacity to arouse interest in the subject
• Encouraging high academic standards among students
• Maintaining rapport, accessibility, and effective communication with students
• Involving students in research, creative work, or other forms of experiential learning
• Employing innovative pedagogical and assessment methods
• Demonstrating leadership by participating in programs and initiatives such as course development, curriculum renewal, teaching-related committees, academic advising, and so on.
• Promoting teaching excellence and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Allison and elsewhere by, for example, participation in PCTC programmes and attendance or presentations at local, regional, or national teaching events.
  
  In short, a Tucker nominee epitomizes the very best in university teaching, and is someone recognized and respected by students and peers for a passion for his or her discipline, excellent teaching, influential leadership in teaching and learning initiatives, and a reflective, scholarly approach to teaching.
  
  To nominate a faculty member:

• Check with your nominee to ensure that she/he fulfills the eligibility criteria, accepts your nomination, and is willing to take part in assembling the supporting dossier
• Write a letter, addressed to Professor Berkeley Fleming, Provost and Vice-President, Academic and Research, detailing why the nominee deserves this Award.

Note: There is no limit to the number of times an individual may be nominated, and re-nominations are warmly welcomed. However, because the selection committee does not keep materials from year to year, renewed submissions must be accompanied by a complete, up-to-date dossier.

Nominations should be submitted electronically to:
Maria Smith, Provost's Office: mlsmith@mta.ca

Please use as the subject line of your e-mail Tucker Award Nomination.

Nomination Deadline: Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Selection Committee
Eileen Herteis, Chair, PCTC Director & Chair of the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee
Three faculty members, normally those currently serving on the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee
The previous Tucker Teaching Award winner
An academic librarian, normally the librarian currently serving on the Senate Teaching and Learning Committee
VP Academic Affairs of SAC (or designate)
Student senator
A Mount Allison Alumnus/a

The Award
The Tucker recipient receives a citation at May Convocation and becomes the university’s nominee for the regional Association of Atlantic Universities’ Distinguished Teaching Award. The Tucker also carries a $5000 prize, which will go directly to the individual (or to the individual’s Professional Development Reimbursement account).