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Every fall and spring semester, Chemistry has the opportunity to select
a graduate student to receive the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant
Award. Candidates for this award
are TAs who are making progress toward their degrees and are in
good academic standing.
In general, outstanding TAs far exceed the Department's expectations on
a consistent basis. Aspects considered include but are not limited to:
- mastery of the material they teach
- clear and effective communication of their knowledge and ability in
helping their students to understand the material
- great leaders who show authenticity and authority in the classroom
- unyielding enforcement of good safety practices
- challenging their students to develop problem solving skills and
technical proficiency
- providing a safe and supportive learning environment for their
students
- ability to bring relevance of the material to the students
- showing sensitivity to the needs of their learners
- demonstration of fair and consistent grading with timely and
adequate feedback to students about their performance
- showing compassion and genuine caring about the learning of their
students and will do what ever it takes to assist
- overall excellent student feedback about TA performance
The winner is chosen by a committee of faculty and staff at the
Department level. At a special CoS awards reception, the award recipients
are presented with a certificate signed by the UA president and a $100
gift card to the UA Bookstore.
Recent winners include:
- Janie Salmon; 2007
- Hallena Rogers; 2006 (We also recognize the following
excellent TAs: Janie Salmon, Xioachun Chen, Kristina Orosz, Mary Steele, David Harris; Jenine Cole-Maeyer, Adam Daly)
- Elisabeth Mansfield; 2005 (We also recognize the following
excellent TAs: Ben Werner, Emily
Grumbling, Peter Orto, Aaron Finke, Xiujuan Wen, Hallie Rogers, Tomika Bethea, Emily
Tennenbaum, Doug Malkin, Jonathan Myers, Marilyne
Stains)
- Udaya Bhaskar Tadikonda; 2004
- Danice Andrus; 2003
- Robert Kevwitch; 2002
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