Submission Cover Sheet
Please ensure you have followed the correct guidelines for your nominated category.
For information relating to the RMIT Teaching Awards 2009, please visit the website.
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Section One: Category of Nomination (please type an “X” in the correct box)
Individual Application
Team Application
Teaching Awards (please type an “X” in the correct box)
Category A: Teaching Excellence, Higher Education
A1 Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing, Psychology and Disability Studies)
A2 Humanities and the Arts (including Design)
A3 Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies
A4 Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science)
A5 Social Sciences (including Education)
A6 Indigenous Education
A7 Priority Area – Work Integrated Learning
A8 Early Career Academic
Category B: TAFE
B1 TAFE Outstanding Teacher/Trainer of the Year Award
B2 TAFE Initiative of the Year Award
Category C: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Category D: Outstanding Sessional Teaching Award (Higher Education)
Category E: Outstanding Sessional Teaching Award (TAFE)
Program Awards (please type an “X” in the correct box)
P1 The first-year experience
P2 Postgraduate education
P3 Assessment and feedback
P4 Innovation in curricula, learning and teaching
P5 Flexible learning and teaching
P6 Services supporting student learning
P7 Educational partnerships and collaborations with other organisations
Section Two : Nominator
(The nominator can be any member of the RMIT staff and student community. No signature is required.)
Section Three: Applicant Details
By checking this box you acknowledge that the information you provide below is accurate and current, and will be used in all official communication and documents.
Individual Application
By checking this box I accept nomination for the 2009 RMIT Teaching Awards, and agree to abide by the guidelines of the Awards. I certify that the application and any attached supporting material is authentic and derived from my own work.
Team Application
How many members within the team? (type number in box)
Please identify one team member as the contact person
By checking this box I accept nomination, on behalf of the team members listed below, for the 2009 RMIT Teaching Awards, and agree to abide by the guidelines of the Awards. I certify that the application and any attached supporting material is authentic and derived from the work of the team.
Additional Team Members
(If there are additional Team members, please provide an attached sheet to this cover sheet with the details, as per above)
Section Four: Endorsement by College PVC or APVC(L&T)
to be completed by the College Co-ordinator
I, (insert name) hereby certify that the above information is true. I support the nomination on the basis of the attached submission going forward to the 2009 RMIT Teaching Awards Selection Panel.
Electronic Signature
Checklist for Applicants
The Cover Sheet is a document which must be completed and submitted with the application. All information on the cover sheet will be used in official publications and must be current and correct.
All other documents may be supplied in MS Word doc or pdf format, check the guidelines on the Teaching Awards website.
All material to be submitted electronically to your College Teaching Awards Co-ordinator by no later than 5 pm, Monday 24 August 2009.
If applying for a Program Award and electing to submit a CD-ROM or DVD as evidence, 10 labelled copies must be delivered directly to the College Teaching Awards Co-ordinator by no later than 5 pm, Monday 24 August 2009.
Application Cover Sheet
Details of nominator are correct
All details of applicants are correct and suitable for use in all official documents and publications
Checked box accepting nomination, agreeing to guidelines, and verifying authenticity of material.
Application
Teaching Awards
Written application no more than 4 single sided A4 pages in Arial Narrow, 11 point font, with no less than 2 cm margins.
Up to 10 pages of written support material
Two references, each of no more than one single sided A4 page, signed, dated, on current letterhead (preferably Arial Narrow, 11 point font with no less than 2 cm margins)
One reference from the Head of School or Unit
One other reference
Program Awards
Written application no more than 6 single sided A4 pages in Arial Narrow, 11 point font, with no less than 2 cm margins.
Up to two of the following:
Up to 10 pages of written support material
One web site title and URL clearly printed on a single A4 page
CD-ROM or DVD (note – 10 labelled copies required and delivered to your College Teaching Awards Co-ordinator)
Two references, each of no more than one single sided A4 page, signed, dated, on current letterhead (preferably Arial Narrow, 11 point font with no less than 2 cm margins)
One reference from the Head of School or Unit
One other reference
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