Transformative Leadership: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
This award recognizes a teaching-focused UCalgary Nursing faculty member whose scholarship demonstrates leadership in teaching and learning in nursing education and the community at large.
The recipient will have created evidence-informed teaching opportunities that provide hands-on experience and portable skills. They have developed teaching and learning opportunities leading to new collaborations and solutions for future-focused health-care education.
Nomination Process
Nominations are welcomed from any students and faculty members from any University of Calgary faculty as well as preceptors. The nominee must agree to the nomination.
A completed nomination form must be accompanied by one signed letter of reference which may be from the nominator. You must also include a CV of your nominee (no more than 2 pages).
Only completed nominations will be accepted (see the nomination form for details). If your nomination is missing any of the supporting documentation, it will be returned to you for completion if there is time.
Use Criteria with Examples
We strongly encourage you to explicitly incorporate the criteria of the specific award with clear examples for each criteria when writing your letter of nomination or support. This not only assists you, as nominator, to highlight the important and relevant attributes of your nominee, it gives the selection committee very clear details about the qualifications of the candidate with examples of their achievements and enhances the overall nomination.
Tips and Templates
Criteria
Demonstrates commitment to nursing education through innovative scholarship of teaching and learning
Places the community and/or the impact on community at the centre of what they do
Actively links their scholarship of teaching and learning to education and practice, offering hands-on experiences for students and creating opportunities for community collaboration
Creates transdisciplinary teaching and learning opportunities leading to new connections and opportunities
Award Selection Process
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards Working Group will review all nominations and select the candidate they feel best exemplifies the criteria for the award. The number of nominations an individual receives may favourably impact the outcome. If the committee feels there is no clear choice, they may choose not to give an award in this category.
In the event a member of the committee is nominated for an award, the member will excuse himself/herself from deliberations for this award.
Additionally, no committee member may support a nomination with a letter of reference.
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards represent a shift from the previous internal awards programs - the Pursuit of Excellence and Covenant Health Faculty of Nursing Awards - and therefore previous recipients in similar categories may be nominated again.