The Fakultätslehrepreise - faculty teaching awards - offer the opportunity to recognise excellent teaching within the individual faculties and to make teaching expertise visible. The teaching awards at the faculties can basically fulfil two functions:
Firstly, with a focus on individual courses and corresponding content, they can be used as a preliminary stage for the university-wide Lehreplus! Prize and subsequently the Ars Docendi State Prize.
Secondly, with a complementary concept, they can also offer a low-threshold and important addition to the more formalised awards, which go beyond individual courses and recognise more specific topics and approaches.
Purpose and objective of the Fakultätslehrepreise
- Recognition and visualisation of outstanding teaching activities
- Motivating teachers to continuously develop their teaching methods
- Promoting the quality of teaching and the exchange of good teaching practice
- Courses taught by the award winners can subsequently be recognised for the Lehreplus! and Ars Docendi! awards.
Award mode
- Ideally awarded every two years, alternating with the Lehreplus! Prize
- Focus on individual courses, but also consideration of overall commitment to teaching
- Opportunities for self-nominations and nominations by others
Nomination process
- Clear and transparent criteria for submission and evaluation
- Documentation of teaching innovations and successes
- Enabling committee nominations, peer nominations or nominations by students
Pricing
- Symbolic recognition with a focus on career development instead of high cash prizes
- Faculty prizes as a potential precursor to the university-wide Lehreplus! Prize and the Ars Docendi State Prize
Communication and celebrations
- Public announcement and honouring of award winners to strengthen the teaching community
- Visualisation of good teaching using digital media such as the homepage, intranet and social media
- Involving the award winners in workshops or seminars on teaching quality
- Public Relations Office
Suggested topics
- Teaching of interdisciplinary competences ("non-subject-related skills" or "future skills")
- Research-orientated teaching, development of research skills, insights into the scientific community
- Feedback culture in the course
- Promoting interaction between lecturers and students
- Inclusion and gender/diversity-sensitive didactic concepts
- Good practice examples in digitalisation, teaching in general or, for example, in dealing with ChatGPT
- High-quality testing and assessment
Selection criteria
- Degree of innovation and creativity of teaching methods
- Effectiveness and measurable impact on student learning outcomes
- Contribution to reducing the discrepancy between digital and traditional teaching
Questions to be considered in the design
- Who should be involved in the selection process in order to form a faculty-internal jury or a committee for awarding the prizes?
- What specific requirements should be placed on the documentation of teaching performance?
- To what extent and in what way should students be involved in the application and evaluation process?
- Should winners of the faculty prizes for the Lehreplus! Prize and the Ars Docendi State Prize?
- What measures and strategies should be taken to ensure the objectivity and fairness of the evaluation process and avoid the perception of the awards as mere popularity prizes?
Download:
Office for Quality Management in Teaching
eval-lehre@uibk.ac.at