CMS Excellence in Teaching Award
for post-secondary undergraduate teaching in mathematics

The CMS Excellence in Teaching Award focuses on the recipient's proven excellence as a teacher at the undergraduate level as exemplified by unusual effectiveness in the classroom and/or commitment and dedication to teaching and to students. The dossier should provide evidence of the effectiveness and impact of the nominee's teaching. The prize recognizes sustained and distinguished contributions in teaching at the post-secondary undergraduate level at a Canadian institution.

Recipients

• 2011 Award : Call for Nominations (deadline: Nov. 15, 2010)
• 2010 Prize : Jennifer Hyndman, UNBC
• 2009 Prize : David Poole, Trent University
• 2008 Prize : Edward Bierstone, University of Toronto
• All recipients

Selection:

The Award is to recognize sustained and distinguished contributions in teaching at the post-secondary undergraduate level at a Canadian institution.

Any full-time university, college, two-year college, or CEGEP teacher in Canada with at least five years teaching experience at their current institution can be nominated.

The CMS Excellence in Teaching Award is distinct from the Adrien Pouliot Award. The CMS Excellence in Teaching Award focuses on the recipient's proven excellence as a teacher at the undergraduate level as exemplified by unusual effectiveness in the classroom and/or commitment and dedication to teaching and to students. The dossier should provide evidence of the effectiveness and impact of the nominee's teaching. Selection criteria will include (but not be limited to):

1. innovation in developing course materials (including methods of delivery, authored textbooks, online materials, journal articles on teaching);
2. influence on students and other teachers.

Nomination:

A nomination will consist of:

1. a signed nominating statement from a present or past colleague, or collaborator (no more than three pages) having direct knowledge of the nominee's contribution;
2. a curriculum vitae (maximum five pages);
3. three letters of support, at least one from a former student (who has followed a course more than a year ago) and one from the chair of the nominee's unit. The letter of the Chair of the nominee's unit could include a one-page summary on information from student evaluations, or similar information;
4. other supporting material (maximum 10 pages).

The nomination will remain active for three years, with a possibility to update.

The dossier must be received no later than November 15.