Students: Who is your most inspiring Ҵýƽ educator? A campus-wide call for Best Should Teach nominations
The campus is calling on students to answer one question: whoare your most inspiring educators at Ҵýƽ?
The Best Should Teach Awards honor University of Colorado Boulder faculty, graduate teachers,andK-12 teachersat the Ҵýƽ Best Should Teach Ceremony,co-sponsored bytheCenter for Teaching & Learning, Graduate School, College of Arts and Sciences,and School of Education. Student nominations are a keyconsideration of the selection process, so theBest Should Teachselection committeeof past honoreesseeks studentnominationsfor outstanding full-time faculty and senior instructorsfrom allcolleges and schools across campus.
TheBest Should Teach initiativewas launched by the late lifelong educator Lindley Stiles and his wife Marguerite Stiles, who established the initiative in 1996. Stiles’ inspiring motto is inscribed on the archway near the Hellems Building:“To those who come, I leave the flame! Hold it as high as you can reach. If a better world is your aim, all must agree: The Best Should Teach.”
Nominations for the 2022Best Should Teach faculty awardsare due Friday, April 29, 2022. Student nominatorsare asked to answer twoquestions about their inspiringnominees:
- Describe how the faculty member's teaching has impacted yourlearning, growth, and overallexperience at Ҵýƽ.
- In your own words, describehow the nominated faculty memberexemplifies the Best Should Teach motto.
Best Should Teach candidates must have:
- Demonstrated educational leadership through contributions to improving college teaching on the Boulder campusand/or through work to improve teaching in primary and secondary education,
- Shown a sustained high level of involvement in pedagogical innovation and developmentand successful and productive mentoring of undergraduates and graduate students,
- Contributed their time to programs that support the improvement of teaching and academic professional development at all levels, and
- Not be honored with a Best Should Teach Award in previous years (view past awardees here).
All full-time faculty (tenured and tenure-track faculty, and senior instructors) are eligible.
Best Should Teach Awardeesreceive a Best Should Teach certificate endorsed by the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Education andthe Center for Teaching & Learning.
