Information for Current English Graduate Students
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Awards
For guidelines please refer to the Application Information.
Awards 2011
Belinda Walzer is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2011. She will receive a $200 honorarium. She is also the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2011.
Awards 2010
William Duffy is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2010. He will receive a $200 honorarium. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2010.
Awards 2009
Kristen Pond and Charles Tedder are the winnters of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2009. They will receive a $200 honorarium.
Awards 2008John Pell is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2008. He will receive a $200 honorarium.
Michael Peterson is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2008.
Awards 2007Liz Vogel is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2007. She will receive a $200 honorarium.
David Rogers is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2007.
Awards 2006Rita Jones-Hyde and Temeka Carter are the winners of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2006. They will receive a $200 honorarium.
Liz Wilkinson is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2006.
Awards 2005Michelle Johnson is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2005. She will receive a $200 honorarium. She is also the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2005.
Awards 2004 Awards 2003Amy Gerald is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2003. She will receive a $200 honorarium.
Awards 2002Rebecca Jones is the winner of the English Department's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2002. She will receive a $200 honorarium.
Jackie Grutsch-McKinney is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences for 2002.
Application Information
The English Department is accepting nominations for the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award. These nominations with supporting documentation are due to the Director of Composition, no later than one week prior to the College deadline. This year, the College deadline is January 27, 2012; therefore, the English department deadline is January 19, 2012.
Faculty members, students, staff, and alumni can make nominations. The Composition Committee will select a recipient for this Award. The recipient will receive $200.
Nominees must be graduate teaching assistants during the 2011-2012 academic year, must be classified as TAs on the PD7 form that is submitted for their assistantship, and have participated in the mandatory TA training arranged by the Graduate School. Nominees should be selected on the basis of the high quality of their teaching as defined by the guidelines for distinguished teaching in the University Handbook for Faculty.
Nominations and supporting documentation must include the following items:
- Nomination letter (not to exceed two typewritten pages). Letter seconding the nomination (not to exceed two typewritten pages).
- Evaluation of the nominee’s teaching by their faculty mentor, the Director of the Writing Center, the Director of Composition, or the Associate Head/Director of Undergraduate Literature.
- Teaching Philosophy
- Course Syllabus or Syllabi
Supplementary Materials to the Teaching Portfolio:
The most competitive teaching portfolios show the connections between the teaching philosophy and classroom pedagogy. The supporting documentation for the portfolio can be up to twenty pages which may include any of the following materials:
- Class assignments
- Samples of student work
- Course evaluations
- Student letters of support
- Statement showing what the supporting documentation means
Selected winning Graduate Teaching Assistant portfolios from previous award years will be available for review in the English department conference room. Nominees are encouraged to review these portfolios prior to submitting materials.
The teaching portfolio must be prepared by the nominee and is evaluated by the Composition Committee.
Please contact Dr. Kelly Ritter (karitter@uncg.edu), Director of Composition at (336) 334-4689 if you have any questions.
For more information, contact:
Ms. Alyson Everhart
Administrative Assistant to Graduate Studies in English
3137 MHRA
(336) 334-5311
