The Center for Transformative Teaching and the University Honors Program value innovative teaching and want to celebrate faculty who are creative, effective in teaching and learning, and who actively promote Honors Program pedagogies and teaching expectations. These include in-depth, experiential learning activities; collaborative, project-based and/or problem-solving activities; integration of course concepts with students’ outside coursework, majors, and/or career paths; innovation in the ways students apply and demonstrate learning; and engaging students at a more sophisticated or complex level than is standard.
Two awards of $1,000 each will be announced at the Honors Graduation Celebration on May 16.
Nominations or self-nominations may be made by any member of the university community. Nominators will be asked to explain the innovative teaching technique and the effect it has on students and learning. Nominations may be submitted in written form (300 words or less) or video format (2 minutes or less).
Faculty eligible to be nominated are instructors of any rank/title from any department who teach Honors seminar courses (189H, UHON 298H, UHON 395H) or department Honors courses (any course with an "H" after the number), or those who engage in innovative work with Honors course contracts.
Nominations and self-nominations will be accepted online through May 1.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/HonorsTeachingAward