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Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award

Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award

We are pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2022 UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. The ROTA program will focus on a commitment to teaching and delivering excellence to the learning experience through outstanding teaching including effectiveness, innovation, and creativity.

The deadline to submit nominations via the online form is Monday, March 21, 2022 by 5:00 p.m. More information can be found in the tabs below. 

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Faculty Success & Diversity Office via email to facultysuccess@utrgv.edu.


Nomination Criteria

Nomination Criteria

Potential indicators of excellence in teaching include, but are not limited to, the demonstrated enhancement of student learning through:

  • Developing innovations that are responsive to student needs.
  • Pursuing effectiveness, innovation, and creativity in the classroom, clinic, or setting in which teaching and learning take place.
  • Demonstrating the use of strategies that actively engage the learner.
  • Creating opportunities for experiential learning.
  • Using technology effectively.
  • Adapting teaching methods to improve teaching and learning.
  • Striving to learn and improve one’s own teaching.
  • Being a leader in teaching and learning by having a positive impact on their colleagues’ teaching.

Eligibility

Eligibility

  • Both tenured/tenure-track and non-tenure-track candidates are eligible.
  • Faculty who have not previously received a ROTA award.

Timeline

Deadline/Date

Activity

 Friday, March 21, 2022 by 5 p.m.

 Nominations Due

 Wednesday, March 23, 2022

 Notification to Nominees

 Friday, April 29, 2022

 Complete Application Packet Due to Office of Faculty Success &   Diversity

 May 2, 2021-May 13, 2022

 External Award Committee Reviews

 Tuesday, May 17, 2022

 Selected Candidates notified

 Tuesday, June 14, 2022 by 5 p.m.

 Finalized Packets due to Office of Faculty Success & Diversity 

 Wednesday, June 29, 2022

 Final Applications Due to UT System

Application Packets

The materials for each nominee must be no longer than 50 pages and compiled as a single PDF document (not a PDF Portfolio) bearing the nominee’s last name and campus (e.g., Smith-UTRGV.pdf). The following application composition is provided by The UT System to assist faculty as they put together the packet. Additional evidence may be included at the nominee’s discretion.

Packet Composition

  • All packets must include a Table of Contents that hyperlinks to all sections of the application packet and the ROTA Application form.
  • Mandatory Materials: (Max: 25 pages) Must include:
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • Teaching Philosophy
    • Plan for disseminating methodologies/innovations (see bullet below)
    • Letters of Support from Department Chair and/or College Dean, Peer Faculty, and Former Students
    • The remaining pages (i.e., Supplemental section) of the written document are available at the nominee’s discretion and could include student evaluations (written comments and/or numerical section), evidence of the effectiveness of methodologies/innovations developed (prior to or during the pandemic), and other materials.
  • Supplemental Materials: (Max: 25 pages) While it is not required, the supplemental section may be used by the selection committee to make decisions. In the supplemental section, applicants are welcome to include:
    • Video(s) – Limit of 3-5 minutes in total.
    • Multimedia
    • Digital – personal website, LinkedIn profile, etc.
    • Other forms of content
  • Applications must demonstrate with quantitative and/or qualitative evidence (e.g., student recommendations, peer faculty recommendations, etc.) faculty’s effectiveness in terms of student success and learning.
  • Applications must include a plan for disseminating methodologies and innovations to other faculty within their university and across UT System institutions and beyond (i.e., shows leadership and commitment). This implementation plan should be written in future tense and focused on innovative ways a nominee could share this information, rather than what one is currently doing. Reviewers will consider the medium of delivery (i.e., video, social media, etc.) as well as the intended audiences (e.g., fellow faculty members, systemwide groups focused on teaching and learning, and state and national audiences).
  • All pages are required to be numbered; additionally, we want to underscore the requirement for headers in the table of contents to be hyperlinked to corresponding sections of the application packet.

UT System Information

UTS Regents' Outstanding Teacher Awards web page

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